Catherine De Peyster (1724–1804)

1724–1804

De Peyster heiress; New York colonial society

Biography

Wife of John Livingston (1714–1786) ("John the Loyalist," son of Philip Livingston, 2nd Lord of Livingston Manor), whom she married December 3, 1742. Daughter of Abraham De Peyster (Treasurer of the Province of New York) and Margaret Van Cortlandt. Mother of Philip John Livingston (1744–1818), John William Livingston, Henry Livingston, Margaret Livingston, and Catherine Augusta (Livingston) De Peyster (1755–1839, who married her own cousin Captain Abraham De Peyster).

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