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Continental congress from 7 Feb., 1780, until he resigned, 21 June, 1782, and again in 1785. He was chief justice of the state supreme court from 1782 till 1789, and in 1788 a member of the convention that adopted the Federal constitution. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the 1st and 2d congresses, serving from 4 March 1789, till 2 March, 1793. In the latter year he was chosen U. S. senator, served as president of the senate during two sessions, and resigned in 1801 on account of failing health.— His son, Edward St. Loe, lawyer, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., 5 April, 1762 ; d. in Lowell, Mass., 15 Sept., 1832, received a classical education, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised successfully at Concord, Portsmouth, Newburyport, and Boston. He was state's attorney for Rockingham county from 1791 till 1793, and justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire from 1797 till 1799. He then removed to Boston, and was chosen to represent Essex county, Mass., in the 10th and 11th congresses, serving from 7 Dec, 1801, till 3 March, 1811. In 1799 he delivered at Portsmouth an oration " On the Dissolution of the Union between this Country and France," and on 6 Jan., 1809, an oration on the embargo law.— Another son, Arthur, jurist, b. in Londonderry, N. H., 26 July, 1776; d. in Camp- ton, N. EL, 1 July, 1853, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised at Concord and Chester. He sat in both branches of the legislature, was a justice of the superior court from 1799 till 1816, presiding as chief justice from 1809 till 1813, and was nominated as a presidential elector on the John Adams ticket in 1801. He was elected as a Demo- crat to congress, serving from 1 Dec, 1817, till 3 March, 1821, and from 1 Dec, 1823, till 3 March, 1825, and was also chief justice of the court of common pleas from 1825 till 1833.

LIVERMORE, Samuel, lawyer, b. about 1786: d. in New Orleans in 1833. He was graduated fit Harvard in 1804, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, subsequently removing to New Orleans, where he attained eminence. He is the author of " A Treatise on the Law of Principal and Agent, and of Sales by Auction" (Boston, 1811; 2 vols., Baltimore, 1818), and of " Dissertations on the Ques- tions which arise from the Contrariety of the Posi- tive Laws of Different States and Nations " (New Orleans, 1828). "This subject, 'The Conflict of Laws,' " says Allibone, " was afterward more fully treated by Judge Story. Mr. Livermore's work, although not sufficiently methodical, is very able."

LIVINGSTON, Robert, first ancestor of the family in America, b. in Ancrum, Scotland, 13 Dec, 1654; d. in Albany, N. Y., 20 April, 1725. He was the son of John Livingston, a Scottish Presbyterian divine, born in 1603, who was ban- ished in 1663 for non-conformity and went to Rotterdam, where he died in 1672. Among the early members of the family was Mary Living- ston, who went to France with' Mary Stuart as one of her maids of honor. Robert emigrated to Charlestown, Mass., in April, 1673, settled in Al- bany, and as early as 1675 became secretary of the commissaries, which office he held until Albany be- came a city in 1686. Subsequently he continued to hold the similar office of town-clerk until 1721. Mr. Livingston was a member of the colonial as- sembly from the city and county of Albany in 1711. and after 1716 was returned from his manor till 1725, becoming speaker in 1718. He acquired great influence over the Indians, retaining the office of secretary of Indian affairs, which he received from Gov. Edmund Andros. for a long series of years. In 1686 he received from Gov. Thomas Dongan a grant of a large tract of land, which in 1715 was confirmed by a royal charter from George I., erect- ing the manor and lordship of Livingston, with the privilege of holding a court leet and a court baron, and with the right of advowson to all the churches within its boundaries. This tract em- braced large parts of what are now the counties of Dutchess and Columbia, N.Y., and is still known as the Livingston man- or, though most of it has long since passed out of the hands of the family. It was through his influence that means were pro- cured to fit out the ship with which Captain William Kidd (q. v.) undertook to restrain the excesses of pi- rates. He mar- ried in 1679 Ali-

da, widow of the

Key. Nicholas Van Rensselaer and daughter of Philip Pietersen Schuyler, by whom he had three sons, Philip, Robert, and Gilbert. — Robert's son, Philip, second lord of the manor, b. in Albany, 9 July, 1686; d. in New York city, 4 Pel)., 1749, was for some time deputy secretary of Indian affairs under his father, and. on the resignation of the latter in 1722, succeeded to the secretaryship. In 1709 he was a member of the provincial assembly from the city and county of Albany, and he was also county-clerk in 1721-49. Livingston was a member of the provincial council till his death. He married Catherine Van Brugh, of Albany, and during the latter part of his life entertained with great magnificence at his three residences in New York, Albany, and the manor. His eldest daughter, Sarah, married William Alexander, Lord Stirling, and his son, Robert, became the third and last lord of the manor. — Philip's son, Peter Van Brugh, merchant, b. in Albany in October, 1710; d. in Elizabethtown, N. J., 28 Dec, 1792, was graduated at Yale in 1731. and soon afterward settled in New York, where he erected a large mansion on the east side of what is now Hanover square, with grounds extending to East river. He engaged in the shipping business with William Alexander, Lord Stirling, whose sister, Mary, he married in November, 1739, and one of the transactions in which he was engaged was the furnishing of supplies to Gov. William Shirley's expedition to Acadia in 1755. For many years he was a member of the council of the province, and he was also one of the committee of one hundred. He was a delegate to the 1st and 2d provincial congresses of New York in 1775-'6, being president of the 1st congress. In 1776 he was made treasurer of the congress, and held that office for two years, also participating in all of the pre-Revolutionary measures. Late in life he removed to Elizabethtown, N. J., where he spent his last years. He was a firm Presbyterian, and in 1748 was named one of the original trustees of the College of New Jersey, holding that office until 1761. John Adams spoke of him as " an old man extremely stanch in the cause and very sensible."