Robert Livingston the Elder

Robert R. Livingston the Elder (1654–1728), born in Roxburghshire, Scotland, and raised in Holland, was a New York colonial official, and first lord of Livingston Manor. He married Alida Schuyler in 1679. He was was the father of Philip Livingston (1686-1749) and Robert Livingston (1688-1775) and uncle of Robert Livingston the Younger. He was one of seven children of the Reverend John Livingston, a lineal descendant of the fifth Lord Livingston, ancestor of the earls of Linlithgow and Callendar, a preacher of the Reformed church in Scotland, who was banished for his nonconformity.

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