Modern 18 min read
John Livingston: Life & Artwork
A fuller catalog of John Livingston's carving, printmaking, restoration work, public commissions, and museum holdings.
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Long reads on the eras and turning points of the Livingston story, from a Scottish exile to a twenty-first-century forest.
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Main Line of Inheritance
The primary line of descent from the Scottish patriarch through the Lords of Livingston Manor and the Oak Hill branch.
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Modern 8 min read
Edmund Livingston & the Livingston State Forest
How a tenth-generation descendant converted 320 years of family land into a public forest.
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Colonial Era 12 min read
From Scotland to the New World
From a Rotterdam pulpit to 160,000 acres on the Hudson: the two-generation journey that founded an American dynasty.
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Colonial Era 10 min read
The Manor Lords
Three generations of lordship over one of colonial America's largest private land grants, and the tenant conflicts that followed.
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Revolution 15 min read
Signers and Founders
Philip signed the Declaration, William signed the Constitution, and Chancellor Robert R. helped draft, swear in, and expand the republic.
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Revolution 12 min read
The Louisiana Purchase
Sent to Paris to buy a port, Robert R. Livingston helped buy a continent and double the United States.
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Modern 12 min read
The Bushes and the Livingstons
How George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush descend from Robert Livingston the Elder through a quieter Ohio branch.
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Heraldry 14 min read
Family Crest
The real Si je puis arms of the Lowland Livingstons of Callendar and Linlithgow, and why the common online crest is wrong.
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DAR & Mayflower: A Livingston's Guide
A Livingston descendant has one of the strongest DAR cases in America and, by the Livingston name, no Mayflower claim at all — but a real Pilgrim line has now been found through the Corser side. Here is how each society works and exactly where the family fits.
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Full Span 7 min read
The Mayflower Line
For years the family assumed it had no Pilgrim blood. It does — just not through the Livingston name. A documented line runs from Mayflower passenger Constance Hopkins down to Dorothy Corser, who married into the Livingstons in the twentieth century.
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Modern 6 min read
Livingston, Guatemala
On the Caribbean coast of Guatemala sits a town named Livingston — not for a settler, but for the legal code written by Edward Livingston. It is the only place in Latin America to carry the family name, and the story of how it got there runs through the Louisiana Purchase generation.
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