Peter Van Brugh Livingston

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Peter Van Brugh Livingston

Peter Van Brugh Livingston (born November 3, 1710 in Albany , New York Province, † December 28, 1792 in Elizabethtown , New Jersey ) was an American politician . He was Treasurer of New York from 1776 to 1778 .

Career

Peter Van Brugh Livingston, second son of Catharine Van Brugh (1689–1756) and Philip Livingston (1686–1749), second lord of Livingston Manor , was born and raised in colonial New York during the reign of Queen Anne . It was named after his grandfather, Pieter Van Brugh , the mayor of Albany. In 1731 he graduated from Yale College . Then he settled in New York City . Livingston was there with William Alexander, Lord Stirling , in the shipping business. On November 3, 1739, he married his sister Mary Alexander. Livingston became one of the original trustees of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University ) in 1748 - a post he held until 1761. During this time he provided supplies to Governor William Shirley's expedition to Acadia . On April 9, 1771, he married his second wife, Mrs. Ricketts, widow of William Ricketts, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

During the War of Independence , he sat on the Committee of One Hundred in 1775 . Livingston took part as a delegate to the New York Provincial Congresses , where he was president in 1775 and between 1776 and 1777. He chaired the Committee of Safety from September 1776 to March 1777 . The Provincial Congress named him Treasurer of New York in 1776. He held the post until 1778 after the establishment of the New York government. Then he sat in the New York State Assembly from 1784 to 1785 .

His house in New York City was a large mansion on the east side of what is now Hanover Square , with land that stretched out to the East River . He later moved to Elizabethtown, where he died in Liberty Hall .

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SURNAME Livingston, Peter Van Brugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Livingston, Peter VB
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Albany , New York Province
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1792
Place of death Elizabethtown , New Jersey