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married   Catharine   Van   Brugh.    He   inherited   the

Livingston Manor and was known as its second Lord.

Their children were:

(i) Robert Livingston, bom in 1710; died in 1790;
who was the third and last Lord of the Manor and
who by his will, contrary to the probable intent of
his grandfather, divided the manor estate fairly
among his  children.

(2)    Philip Livingston, born in 1716, was a dis¬
tinguished merchant of New York City. He
married Christiana Ten Broeck. He was a member
of the Provincial Congress of 1776 and one of the
signers of the Declaration of Independence. He
lived in a spacious house on the Hudson near Red
Hook, near the residence of his relative, Robert
Gilbert Livingston, Jr. His daughter, Sarah Liv¬
ingston and her husband, the Rev. Dr. John Henry
Livingston, also had their home there. Near them
lived the Rev. Dr. John Rutgers of the Brick
Church, New York City. Mrs. Lamb in her
History of New York City states that when General
Burgoyne was devastating the river counties Dr.
Rutgers was roused by a German he hardly knew
and warned to immediately remove the household
goods he had stored in a small building on the
river bank. He did so and with the Livingstons
escaped to Sharon,  Conn.

(3)    William Livingston, bom in 1723, was a lawyer
and statesman. He was Governor of New Jersey
from 1776 until his death in 1790. One of his sons
was Brockholst Livingston, Justice of the Supreme
Coiu-t of New York and Judge of the Supreme Court
of the United States.

(c) Robert Livingston, born in 1688; died in 1775; third
son of Robert Livingston, the founder; received from his
father the manor of Clermont containing about 13,000
acres. He married Margaret Howerden and their only
child, Robert R. Livingston, married Margaret Beekman