Elizabeth Livingston Smith (1773–1818)

Elizabeth Livingston was born 18 May 1773 in Quebec during her father Colonel James Livingston's Revolutionary War service. She married Peter Gerrit Smith (1768–1837), John Jacob Astor's fur-trade partner and upstate New York land baron, on 5 February 1792. She died 27 August 1818. Her son Gerrit Smith (1797–1874) became one of America's leading abolitionists, a U.S. Congressman, and a financier of John Brown and the Underground Railroad.