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 | | He was the son of Philip Livingston (1686 1749), and grandson of Robert Livingston (1654-1725), who was born at Ancrum, Scotland, emigrated to America about 1673, and received grants (beginning in f 686) to Livingston Manor (a tract of land on the Hudson, comprising the greater part of what are now Dutchess and Columbia counties). |
 | | William Livingston graduated at Yale College in 1741, studied law in the city of New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1748. |
 | | He was a member of the New York Assembly in 1759-1769, a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 until his death and as such a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and in 1777-1778 was a member of the first state senate. |
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