Signer of the Declaration of Independence, born at Albany, NY, on the 15th of January 1716. After graduating at Yale College he became a merchant in New York, and was for nine years an alderman of that city. From 1758 to 1769 he was a member of the provincial assembly, in which he steadily opposed all arbitrary measures of the mother country. In 1774 he was delegated to the Continental Congress, then assembled at Philadelphia, and continued to be a member of that body until his death. As such he signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Mr. Livingston was liberal to colleges—a professorship of divinity at Yale bears his name as one of its founders—and during the Revolutionary War he sold part of his property in order to sustain the public credit. He was one of the contributors to the building of the first Methodist church in America, and one of the founders of the New York Chamber of Commerce. He died in York, PA, on the 12th of June 1778.
