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• Hij is geboren op 13 december 1654 in Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Schotland.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden op 21 april 1728 in Albany, Albany County, New York, United States, hij was toen 73 jaar oud.Bron 1

  
  Leeftijd:73y 4m 8d

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Gezin van Lord Robert Livingston

Hij is getrouwd met Alyda Schuyler.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 10 februari 1674, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Philipina Joanna Livingston  1684-1690
2. Philip Livingston  1686-1748 
3. Gilbert Hubertus Livingston  1689-1746 
4. William Livingston  1692-1692
5. Joanna Livingston  ± 1694-± 1735
6. Catherine Livingston  ± 1698-1699

Notities over Lord Robert Livingston

Robert Livingston the Elder (December 13, 1654 – October 1, 1728) was a New York colonial official, and first lord of Livingston Manor. He married Alida Schuyler (widow of Nicholas Van Rensselaer) in 1679. He was the father of nine children, including Philip, Robert and Gilbert. He was also uncle of Robert Livingston the Younger, grandfather of Philip Livingston and William Livingston.

Early life

He was born in the village of Ancrum, near Jedburgh, in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, one of seven children of the Reverend John Livingston, a lineal descendant of the fourth Lord Livingston, ancestor of the earls of Linlithgow and Callendar, a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was sent into exile in 1663 due to his resistance to attempts to turn the Presbyterian national church into an Episcopalian institution. The exiled family were raised in Rotterdam, in the Dutch Republic, thus Robert Livingston was fluent in the Dutch language, which helped him greatly in his later career in the former Dutch colony of New Netherland.

Career

Following the death of his father in 1673, Robert Livingston returned to Scotland and then sailed for Boston to find his fortune in North America. Livingston moved to Albany, New York where he became wealthy in the fur trade, and then obtained a patent to 160,000 acres (650 km¬â‰¤) that would become Livingston Manor in Columbia and Dutchess County.
With his brother-in-law Peter Schuyler, he led the opposition in Albany to Leisler's Rebellion. He served as Secretary for Indian Affairs from 1695 until his death. In 1696, he backed Captain William Kidd's privateer voyage on the Adventure Galley. He served as a representative to the New York provincial assembly in 1709– 1711 and 1716– 1725 and was elected speaker in 1718.

Family and descendants:
Livingston's son Gilbert was married to Cornelia Beekman (a granddaughter of Schenectady Mayor Wilhelm Beekman). Their daughter married New York Lt. Governor Pierre Van Cortlandt. One of the Van Cortlandts' daughters married Albany Mayor Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer. Mrs. Van Cortlandt's sister-in-law married the great-grandson of New York Colony Governor Peter Stuyvesant. They were grandparents to New York Governor Hamilton Fish. Another daughter of Gilbert Livingston named Margaret Livingston married Peter Stuyvesant (1727– 1805) also a great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant. Their son Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769– 1833) married Catherine Livingston Reade, who was also a great-granddaughter of Gilbert Livingston.
Another relation was niece Catherine Schuyler, married into the De Peyster family; her son was loyalist Arent Schuyler De Peyster. Arent's nephew, Abraham De Peyster, was a loyalist Officer who served with the King's American Regiment and was at Battle of King's Mountain; Abraham was married to Catherine Livingston, a granddaughter of Philip Livingston (1686– 1749, and 2nd Lord of the Manor).
Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs, and almost the entire Astor family.
His will provided for the establishment of the Livingston Memorial Church and Burial Ground. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

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