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Robert Livingston

American politician and merchant
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Robert Livingston (born Dec. 13, 1654, Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scot.—died Oct. 1, 1728, Clermont, N.Y. [U.S.]) was an early American landowner, politician, and merchant who founded the prominent Livingston family of New York state and laid the basis of his family’s material fortune. Livingston was the son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister who emigrated to Rotterdam in Holland in 1663. Young Livingston himself emigrated to New England in 1673 and settled in the frontier village of...

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