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Livingston Manor is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) in Sullivan County, New York, United States. The population was 1,221 at the 2010 census. Livingston Manor is in the south part of the Town of Rockland, adjacent to New York State Route 17. ==History== The community capitalizes on the illustrious Livingston Manor name because Livingston family members and descendants had a house there. However it was not part of the original manor, which was about east in Dutchess and Columbia counties, extending on both sides of the Hudson River. The Sullivan County community was part of the Hardenbergh patent in 1716, which included much of the Catskill Mountains. In 1750 Robert Livingston (1708–1790) bought in the area shortly after becoming the third (and final) Lord of the Manor of Livingston Manor. Most of the land would be sold or leased by 1780. Robert's third son, John Robert Livingston (1775–1851),〔http://www.ulster.net/~hrmm/steamboats/livingston/skaaren.html〕 deeded to his nephew, Dr. Edward R. Livingston, in 1822 around the area then called Purvis, New York. Edward Livingston died in 1864. Purvis was renamed as Livingston Manor in 1882.〔http://livingstonmanor.net/Timeline.htm〕 Edward Livingston's residence, according to a sign in the village, was on a site now occupied by the village firehouse.〔 Another town source says that it was on a site later developed as the Rockland, New York Town Hall.〔http://livingstonmanor.net/livingston_house_debate.htm〕 In the 1930s a Livingston descendant arrived in Livingston Manor claiming title to his ancestral land, which had previously been held by tenants. He won his case in court, and the people whose ancestors had been tenants had to purchase the property they had been living on for years. Other early settlers were the Benton family, who immigrated from Essex, England in the mid 17th-century, settling in Guilford, Connecticut. Records show some of their descendants arrived in Sullivan County in the late 18th-century from Connecticut, purchasing a large tract of land in what is now known as the Township of Liberty. They were likely Scots-Irish in ancestry. They took on many jobs in Sullivan County. Other landed families settling in the surrounding area were the Bascoms, Stewarts, Wests, Harringtons, Williams, Cochrans, Motts, Kimballs, Darbees, Woodards, Barnharts, and Joselyns. Some of these families descendants still reside in the area. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the village attracted immigrants from eastern Europe. Jewish immigrants founded the Agudas Achim Synagogue. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Livingston Manor, New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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