William Livingston (1723 - 1790)

Born 8 Nov 1723 in Livingston Manor, Albany, Province of New York

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (French) Livingston — married 1745 in Province of New York

Descendants

Died 25 Jul 1790 at age 66 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, United States

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Preceded by New Jersey Constitution ratified July 2, 1776

William Livingston 1st Governor of New Jersey 1776—1790

Succeeded by Acting Governor Elisha Lawrence

Biography

Gov. William Livingston served with American Founding Fathers during the American Revolution.

William Livingston is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A070860.

William Livingston is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-237467
Rank: Brig General/PS

William Livingston is Notable.

1st Governor of New Jersey Yale Graduate: William, b. 8th Nov 1723; d. 25th July, 1790; graduate of Yale, 1741; Member of the Provincial Assembly, 1759-1761; Governor of New Jersey, 1776-1790, LL.D., 1788; m. circa 1745, Susannah FRENCH, bapt. 19th June, 1723, d. 17th July, 1789. (Colonial Families in the U.S.) After he purchased a farm at Elizabethtown, NJ; he erected a mansion which he named Liberty Hall. He was a member of the Continental Congress from NJ in 1774, 1775, and 1776; but having been appointed a Brigadier General in 1775, he was in actual command of the US forces at Elizabethtown on July 4, 1776, so he could not sign the Declaration of Independence. In August 1776, he was elected to Governor of NJ

Children

1. Catherine Livingston 1751 - 1813
2. William Livingston 1754 - 1817
3. Judith Livingston 1758 - 1843
4. John Lawrence Livingston 1762 - 1781
5. Sarah Livingston (Jay)
6. Mary Livingston 1753 - ?
7. Henry Brockholst Livingston 1757 - 1823
8. Philip French Livingston 1760 - ?
9. Elizabeth Livingston 1764 - 1765
10. Susan Livingston
11. William Livingston, governor of New Jersey, whose wife was Susanna French.

Of their children,

• 2.6.1. Susannah married hon. John Cleves Symmes (see art. 1004)
• 2.6.2. Catharine, Matthew Ridley, for her first husband, and John Livingston, for her second
• 2.6.3. Mary, James Linn, esq.
• 2.6.4. Judith, John Watkins
• 2.6.5. hon. Henry Brockholst, Catharine Keteltas, for his first wife, and Ann Ludlow, for his second
• 2.6.6 Sarah, his excel. John Jay (see art. 1069)
• 2.6.7. William

Research Notes

Member of New York colonial assembly, 1759-61; Delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1774-76; Governor of New Jersey, 1776-90; died in office 1790; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. Presbyterian. Died July 25, 1790. Originally entombed at Trinity Churchyard, New York, N.Y.; re-entombed in 1846 at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y'[11]

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Sources

• Revolutionary War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993. Also SAR Revolutionary War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 15 February 2015), "Record of William Livingston", Ancestor # A070860.

• New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings (The New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, New Jersey, April 1924) New Series Vol. 9 No. 2, Page 97-106

• Wikipedia:William_Livingston

• http://patriot.sar.org/fmi/iwp/cgi?-db=Grave%20Registry&-loadframes

• The Curio, An Illustrated Monthly Magazine (R.W. Wright, New York, 1887) Vol. 1, No. 1, Page 62

• Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 25 November 2020), memorial page for William Livingston (30 Nov 1723–25 Jul 1790), Find A Grave: Memorial #3278, citing Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .

• Northwestern Historical Association. Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Northwest Historical Association., Madison, Wisconsin, 1904, Vol. 1, p. 457-458)