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	William Livingston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Livingston (November 30, 1723 – July 25, 1790) served as the Governor of New Jersey (1776–1790) during the American Revolution and was a signer of the United States Constitution.
		William Livingston's sister Sarah was married to Continental General William Alexander (aka Lord Stirling); their daughter was married to William Duer (1747-1799) and became the parents of William Alexander Duer and the grandparents of William Duer (1805-1879).
		Livingson was a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of the signers of the Constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Livingston (540 words)

	WILLIAM LIVINGSTON
		William Livingston, who represented New Jersey at the Constitutional Convention, was one of the new nation's authentic renaissance figures.
		William Livingston received his primary education in local schools and from private tutors, but his horizons were considerably expanded at the age of fourteen when his family sent him to live for a year with a missionary among the Iroquois Indians in the wilds of the Mohawk Valley.
		In 1748 Livingston was admitted to the bar and opened a practice in the city, a year after marrying the daughter of a wealthy New Jersey landowner.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/livingston.htm (1725 words)

	William-Livingston
		William resented this, and although thoroughly conversant in the language of his mother, and returned to the Presbyterian faith of his ancestors.
		Livingston once jokingly told of the French claiming that Christ was born in France and crucified in London, whereas the British told of him being born in England and crucified in Paris.
		Livingston continued in the service of his adopted state, New Jersey after independence but on the death of his wife on the 17th July, 1789, his own health waned.
	www.geocities.com /livvyboy/William-Livingston.html (847 words)

	William Livingston Writings and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Livingston was born in 1723 at Albany, NY.
		Three years later, Livingston was admitted to the bar and quickly gained a reputation as the supporter of popular causes against the more conservative factions in the city.
		Livingston held the position throughout and beyond the war--in fact, for 14 consecutive years until his death in 1790.
	www.lexrex.com /bios/wlivingston.htm (566 words)

	William Livingston
		William Livingston was born in Albany in 1723.
		William Livingston died at his estate in Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1790 and was buried there.
		Sources: The life of William Livingston focusing on his childhood and on his relationship with the city of Albany is CAP biography number 5033.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/l/wmlivingston.html (469 words)

	William Livingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That his branch of the Livingstons were thoroughgoing Calvinists of the Dutch Reformed and Presbyterian denominational persuasions, further fueled his antipathy to Anglicanism.
		Livingston was an early advocate of the plan broached in 1745 by his mentor Alexander to construct a college in New York City.
		Livingston continued throughout the 1760s to do battle with the DeLanceys for political control of New York, until a political defeat in 1769 led him to remove himself to Elisabethtown, New Jersey and to the life of a gentlemen farmer.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /kingsv1/biosketches/william_livingston.htm (560 words)

	Robert Livingston
		Livingston met with great success in the practice of his profession, and was appointed recorder of the city of New York by Governor William Tryon in 1773, but lost this office in 1775, owing to his active sympathy with the revolutionary spirit of the times.
		Livingston had previously been impressed with the advantage that was to be derived from the application of steam to navigation, and he obtained from the legislature of the state of New York the exclusive right to navigate its water-ways by steam power for twenty years.
		After his retire-meat from public service, Livingston devoted considerable time and attention to the subject of agriculture, and it was through his efforts that the use of gypsum for fertilizing purposes became general he was also the first to introduce the merino sheep into the farming communities west of Hudson river.
	www.thedeclarationofindependence.org /robertlivingston.org (1011 words)

	THE LIVINGSTONS OF CALLENDAR IN ULSTER
		William's oldest son Rev. Henry Livingston was apparently born in 1631 in Co. Down.* Henry was the first minister of Drumbo Presbyterian Church in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, and married Grizell or perhaps Eliza Grizzell.
		William Livingston and Mary Lindsey had at least one other son, also named William, who was born in 1648 (or perhaps 1643) in Lisburn, Co. Antrim, and became a merchant.
		William was a ruling elder of the Presbyterian church at Ballynahinch, Co. Down, and a commissioner from Lisburn to the Synod of Ulster in 1697.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /swerner/radical/livingston2a.html (996 words)

	Welcome to Livingston, New Jersey
		Livingston was named in honor of William Livingston, the first governor of New Jersey and a framer of the Constitution.
		Livingston served as governor for 13 terms before he died in 1790.
		Livingston's quality of life excels in large part because its residents are active in more than 30 community boards and organizations.
	www.livingstonnj.org /livingston.htm (525 words)

	March/April 1999 - Travels in the East: A Livingston Story
		In the early 1950s, William K. Livingston, chairman of the department of surgery and director of the Pain Project at the University of Oregon, made several trips east to laboratories that were conducting research that appeared to have some bearing on the problem of pain.
		Livingston had first met John Lilly, "a tall slender Bostonish lad" from the University of Pennsylvania, at an Association for Research on Nervous and Mental Disorders meeting in 1951, and talked to him later on the plane.
		Livingston brought reports of his group's pain studies to his colleagues and took back notes of their work to Oregon, where they went into the growing file he was compiling for his book.
	www.ampainsoc.org /pub/bulletin/mar99/history.htm (860 words)

	Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Livingston tactfully denies a request from an American general, Lord Stirling, for a pass for his daughter, Lady Mary (Alexander) Watts, to come to New Jersey from New York.
		In the letter, Livingston cites his desire to be impartial in granting passes as well as the "fatal Stab" his reputation might suffer if he were to approve the pass.
		Livingston hoped that the devastating and, indeed, "mortifying" failure of a recent Spanish offensive would temper the "vehement passion" Spain had for the Rock, and in fact by January 1783 Spain had agreed to a preliminary treaty under which Britain would retain control of Gibraltar.
	www.shore.co.monmouth.nj.us /archives/livingston2003.asp (4427 words)

	John William Livingston
		Born August 17, 1908, on a farm in Iberia, Missouri (the foothills of the Ozarks), John W. Livingston served the AFL-CIO in the post of Director of Organization for ten years, from the merger of the AFL and CIO in December 1955 to December 1965.
		Between 1934-1939, Livingston was elected and reelected president of this local union of auto workers.
		During the summer of 1950, Livingston was chairman of a twelve‑man UAW-CIO delegation that visited England, France, Italy, and West Germany.
	nathanielturner.com /johnwilliamlivingston.htm (899 words)

	Livingston
		John Livingston married a daughter of Wemyss of Wemyss and was the founder of the Livingstons of Drumry and East Wemyss, but the line became extinct when Sir Robert Livingston was slain at Flodden Field in 1513.
		Alexander Livingston, 5th Lord Livingston of Callendar was the guardian of the young Mary Queen of Scots.
		Livingston, The Livingstons of Callendar and The Livingstons of the Manor.
	robertsewell.tripod.com /bruce.html (4859 words)

	Livingston
		Livingston of Kilsyth: The ancestors of Barbara Livingston
		Livingston of Falkirk and Airth: The ancestors of Agnes Livingston
		Alexander Livingston of Feldes or Phildes was the ancestor of the Livingstons of Dunipace, Bantaskine, Kirklands of Dunipace, Balrownie, and Halls of Airth.
	www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell (4291 words)

	William G. Livingston
		Admitted to the Bar, 1748; Member of the New York Assembly, 1759-1761; Member of Essex County Committee of Correspondence, 1774; Delegate to the Continental Congress, 1774, 1776; Commander of the New Jersey Militia, 1776; Governor of New Jersey, 1776-1790; Delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787.
		William G. Livingston was born in Albany New York in 1723.
		Livingston also served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and was active in securing its ratification in New Jersey afterward.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/related/livingston_w.htm (309 words)

	Robert Livingston
		Robert Livingston was born in the city of New York in 1746.
		Livingston became politically active in the era of the Stamp Act Revolt, and was probably (along with his brother, William), involved with the Sons of Liberty in New York.
		Livingston was appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Secretary of State) soon after the Articles of Confederation were adopted.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/related/livingston_r.htm (318 words)

	Wilson Family Papers
		William's second daughter, Mary Ann (1792-1887), married George A. Shufeldt against her father's wishes, and against the advice of most of the rest of the family.
		William's major pursuit in life was medicine, and his surviving papers contain seven medical daybooks (40:3; 47:9-14), providing a chronological record of his visits, diagnoses and prescriptions, as well as his fees.
		William H. wrote several letters during his tour of duty on the Lake Champlain frontier during the War of 1812 (18:43, 52; 19:18, 26, 36, 47, 56, 60, 68; 20:16, 18), but these are preoccupied with descriptions of camp life and military "politics" rather than strategy or the social impact of the war.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/UZ/WilsonFm.html (3043 words)

	Henry Livingston's Cousins
		In a strange succession of events in the Livingston family history, Peter Robert Livingston's elder brother died before their father and thus again a second son was in line for succession as 4th Lord of the Manor.
		Sir William Alexander, from whose family he claimed descent, was a court poet and favorite of James I, from whom he received an immense grant of land in North America.
		VAN RENSSELAER, Stephen, soldier, was born in New York city, Nov. 1, 1765; son of Stephen and Catherine (Livingston) Van Rensselaer; grandson of Philip and Maria (Sanders) Livingston; great-grandson of Kiliaen and Areoantie (Schuyler) Van Rensselaer; great2-grandson of Jeremias, the immigrant, and Maria (Van Cortlandt) Van Rensselaer, and great3-grandson of Kiliaen, the first patroon.
	www.iment.com /maida/familytree/henry/genealogy/cousins.htm (6672 words)

	Livingston, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Livingston was born in Albany, New York and grew up there.
		Livingston read law with James Alexander in New York City, but feel out of favor with Alexander upon publication of an essay about the nature of his studies.
		In 1752 he published, with William Smith, Jr., the first digest of the Colony Laws and began publication of a weekly political journal.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/livingston.html (325 words)

	William Livingston, Signer of the U.S. Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Livingston is regarded as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.
		Livingston was born in 1723 at Albany, N.Y. His maternal grandmother reared him until he was 14, and he then spent a year with a missionary among the Mohawk Indians.
		Attacking the Anglican attempt to charter and control King's College (later Columbia College and University) and the dominant De Lancey party for its Anglican sympathies, by 1758 Livingston had risen to the leadership of this faction.
	www.adherents.com /people/pl/William_Livingston.html (396 words)

	Colonial Hall: Biography of William Livingston
		The Livingston family contributed many able and devoted patriots to the service of America.
		Among these, William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey was conspicuous during thc Revolution.
		Governor Livingston was remarkably plain and simple in his dress and manners.
	www.colonialhall.com /livingstonw/livingstonw.php (406 words)

	Livingston, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Livingston was founded in 1813, and was the joining of seven distinct areas: Centerville (separated to become Roseland, New Jersey, in 1908), Cheapside (now Livingston Mall), Morehousetown (now Livingston Circle), Northfield (now Northfield Center), Squiretown (now the Cerebal Palsy Institute of New Jersey on Old Road), Teedtown, and Washington Place.
		In and near Livingston are Eisenhower Parkway, County Route 508, County Route 527, Interstate 280, Route 10, and the Morristown and Erie Railway.
		Livingston High School was the 14th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2006 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Livingston,_New_Jersey (2293 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: William Livingston
		Livingston attacked the Anglican attempt to charter and control King's College (later Columbia College and University) and the dominant De Lancey party for its Anglican sympathies, and by 1758 rose to the leadership of his faction.
		The Revolutionary upsurge, however, brought Livingston out of retirement.
		He soon became a member of the Essex County, NJ, committee of correspondence; in 1774 a representative in the First Continental Congress; and in 1775-76 a delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/livingst/livingst.htm (565 words)

	National Park Service - Signers of the Constitution (William Livingston)
		Livingston, who chaired the Convention committee that reached a compromise on slavery, was a member of one of the most politically and economically powerful families in the Colonies, but he spearheaded popular rather than conservative causes and was a fervent Revolutionary.
		Excelling in politics as well as the law, though a gentleman farmer at heart, he served in the Continental Congress and as the first Governor of his State.
		In 1769 Livingston's supporters, riven by the growing debate as to how to respond to British taxation of the Colonies, lost control of the assembly.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/constitution/bio24.htm (652 words)

	Who was William Livingston?
		Livingston issued, in pamphlet form, his famous Letter to the prelate, in which, with sarcastic indignation of tone, he refuted the charges of that dignitary so completely that they were not repeated.
		Livingston "for vindicating the New England churches and plantations against the injurious reflections and unjust aspersions cast upon them in the Bishop of Llandaff's sermon." This compliment was travestied by one of the champions of the church in a poem of fifty lines, which was published in Hugh Gaines' New York Mercury.
		This theological controversy ceased when the vital question of absolute resistance or submission to the encroachments of both Church and State upon the liberties of the Americans was brought to a final issue.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/whowaswi_be.html (847 words)

	Amazon.fr : Color and Light in Nature: Livres en anglais: David K. Lynch,William Livingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Separating myth from reality, David Lynch and William Livingston outline the basic principles involved, and support them with many figures and references.
		William Livingston has been an astronomer at the Kitt Peak Observatory in southern Arizona since 1959.
		Livingston has participated in many solar eclipse expeditions in Alaska, the South Pacific, Africa, Indonesia, India, and recently Turkey, but believes that his best sightings of atmospheric phenomena have been from his backyard in Tucson.
	www.amazon.fr /Color-Light-Nature-David-Lynch/dp/0521775043 (502 words)

	William LIVINGSTON — Infoplease.com
		The New York Triumvirate; A Study of the Legal and Political Careers of William Livingston, John Morin Scott, William Smith, Jr.
		Unpublished Correspondence of William Livingston and John Jay; Introduction and notes, by Frank Monaghan.
		A memoir of the life of William Livingston, Member of Congress in 1774, 1775, and 1776: Delegate to the federal convention in 1787, and governor of the state of New-Jersey from 1776 to 1790 ; With extracts from his correspondence, and notices of various members of his family.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/livingston-william.html (304 words)

	Livingston: William Livingston (1723–90)
		Albany, N.Y., was the youngest of the three sons of Robert R. Livingston's (1654–1728) son Philip.
		He was admitted (1748) to the bar and became one of the leading lawyers of New York City.
		Together with the historian William Smith he prepared a digest of the laws (1691–1756) of provincial New York.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0859319.html (134 words)

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