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Robert Livingston (December 16, 1708 – November 27, 1790) was the third Lord of Livingston Manor and a member of the assembly for the manor from 1737 to 1758. ==Life== Robert Livingston was born in Albany, New York, December 16, 1708, the eldest son of Philip and Catharina Van Brugh Livingston. Shortly after becoming Lord of the Manor, he acquired of the Catskill Mountains in what had formerly been the Hardenbergh Patent.〔http://livingstonmanor.net/Timeline.htm〕 Upon the death of his father in February 1749, Robert inherited Livingston Manor. He found himself embroiled in a border dispute with Massachusetts when some New Englanders began to settle on the eastern portion of the Manor. Some of the settlers were Livingston's own tenants, who tired of paying rent moved east and contended they were now in Massachusetts. According to C.A. Kierner, by 1767 Livingston Manor had about 285 tenant families, together leasing 30,000 from Robert. Settlement was disbursed, with areas adjoining waterways, mills, and ironworks, the more densely populated. The tenants paid their rent in wheat. In 1760 Livingston Manor produced 50,000 bushels; Robert had claim to one-tenth as income.〔(Kierner, Cynthia A., ''Traders and Gentlefolk: The Livingstons of New York, 1675-1790'', Cornell University Press, 1992 )〕 During the Revolution, he made available to the New York Committee of Safety the iron mines and foundry on the Manor, while his sons, Peter Robert, Walter, John and Henry, were actively involved on the American side. Robert Livingston, Third Lord of the Manor, died November 27, 1790 at the age of eighty-one. He broke the family tradition of leaving the estate to his eldest son and shared Livingston Manor among his five sons. 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「Robert Livingston (1708–1790)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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