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See also:LIVINGSTON, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1723-1790) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Albany, New See also:York, probably on the 3oth of See also:November 1723. He was the son of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip Livingston (1686-1749), and See also:grandson of See also:Robert Livingston (1654-1725), who was born at See also:Ancrum, See also:Scotland, emigrated to See also:America about 1673, and received grants (beginning in 1686) to " Livingston See also:Manor " (a See also:tract of See also:land on the See also:Hudson, comprising the greater See also:part of what are now Dutchess and See also:Columbia counties). This Robert Livingston, founder of the American See also:family, became in 1675 secretary of the important See also:Board of See also:Indian Commissioners; he was a member of the New York See also:Assembly in 1711-1715 and 1716--1727 and its See also:speaker in 1718-1725, and in 1701 made the proposal that all the See also:English colonies in America should be grouped for administrative purposes " into three distinct governments."
William Livingston graduated at Yale See also:College in 1741, studied See also:law in the See also:city of New York, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1748. He served in the New York legislature (1759--1760); but his political See also:influence was See also:long exerted chiefly through See also:pamphlets and newspaper articles. The Livingston family then led the Dissenters, who later became Whigs, and the De Lancey family represented the See also:Anglican Tory interests. Through the columns of the See also:Independent Reflector, which he established in 1752, Livingston fought the See also:attempt of the Anglican party to bring the projected See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's College (now Columbia University) under the See also:control of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of See also:England. After the suspension of the Reflector in 1753, he edited in the New York See also:Mercury the " See also:Watch See also:Tower " See also:section (1754-1755), which became the recognized See also:organ of the Presbyterian See also:faction. In opposition to the efforts of the Anglicans to procure the See also:establishment of an American episcopate, he wrote an open See also:Letter to the Right See also:Reverend See also:Father in See also:God, See also:John See also:Lord, See also:Bishop of See also:Llandaff (1768), and edited and in large measure wrote the " American Whig " columns in the New York See also:Gazette (1768-1769). In 1772 he removed to See also:Elizabeth, New See also:Jersey, where after 1773 he lived on his See also:estate known as " See also:Liberty See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall." He represented New Jersey in the first and second See also:Continental Congresses (1774, 1775-1776), but See also:left See also:Philadelphia in See also:June 1776, probably to avoid voting on the question of adopting the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence, which he regarded as inexpedient. He was chosen first See also:governor of the See also:state of New Jersey in 1776, and was regularly re-elected until his See also:death in 1790. Loyal to American interests and devoted to See also:General See also:Washington, he was one of the most useful of the state executives during the See also:War of Independence. While governor he was a frequent contributor to the New Jersey Gazette, and in this way he greatly aided the American cause during the war by his denunciation of the enemy and appeals to the patriotism of his countrymen. He was ajoined with his See also:brother, Philip Livingston, his brother-in-law, William See also:Alexander ("Lord See also:Stirling ") and others in See also:founding what is now known as the Society Library of New York. With the help of William See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith (1728-1793), the New York historian, William Livingston prepared a See also:digest of the See also:laws of New York for the See also:period 1691-1756, which was published in two volumes (1752 and 1762). He died at Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the 25th of See also:July 1790.
delegate to the Federal Constitutional See also:Convention of 1787,
and supported the New Jersey small-state See also:plan. In 1754 he
See See also:Theodore See also:Sedgwick, Jr., See also:Life of William Livingston (New York, 1833); and E. B. Livingston, TheLivingstons of Livingston Manor(1910). His brother, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
PETER See also:VAN BRUGH LIVINGSTON (1710-1792), was a prominent See also:merchant and a Whig political leader in New York. He was one of the founders of the College of New Jersey (now See also:Princeton University), was a member of the New York See also:Council for some years before the War of Independence, a member and See also:president of the First Provincial See also:Congress of New York (1775), and a member of the Second Provincial Congress (1775-1776).
Another brother, PHILIP LIVINGSTON (1716-1778), was also prominent as a leader of the New York Whigs, or Patriots. He was a member of the New York Assembly in 1759-1769, a delegate to the See also:Stamp See also:Act Congress of 1765, a member of the Continental Congress from 1774 until his death and as such a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and in 1777-1778 was a member of the first state See also:senate.
William's son, (See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY) BROCKHOLST LIVINGSTON (1757-1823), was an officer in the American War of Independence, and was an able lawyer and See also:judge.
End of Article: LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM (1723-1790)
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