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Notes
- 1 2 3 Hough, Franklin Benjamin (1858). The New York Civil List: containing the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time. Weed, Parsons and Co. pp. 131ff, 143, 205, 288. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
- 1 2 3 Coster, Morris (1886). New Amsterdam Gazette. Morris Coster. p. 6. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 Livingston, Edwin Brockholst (1910). The Livingstons of Livingston Manor: Being the History of that Branch of the Scottish House of Callendar which Settled in the English Province of New York During the Reign of Charles the Second; and Also Including an Account of Robert Livingston of Albany, "The Nephew," a Settler in the Same Province and His Principal Descendants. Knickerbocker Press. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ↑ The American Quarterly Register. Perkins & Marvin. 1839. pp. 217–218. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aitken, William Benford (1912). Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke. Knickerbocker Press. pp. 16–17. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ↑ Davis, Howland; Clermont, Friends of (1995). A Livingston Genealogical Register. Kinship. ISBN 9781560121367 . Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ↑ Genealogical Record. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York. 1916. p. 14. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
Sources
- Death notice in The American Quarterly Register and Magazine publ. by James Stryker (Philadelphia, 1849; Vol. II, No. II, pg. 505)
- The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution by Benson J. Lossing (New York City, 1855; Vol. 1, pg. 383f)
- Livingston family tree
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