Philip Livingston (1716-1778)

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Identifier
NJS-PER-00016
Given Name
Philip
Family Name
Livingston
Birth Date
January 15, 1716
Death Date
June 12, 1778
Sex
Male
Occupation
Slave Trade
Banking, Insurance, and Commerce
Landowning
Government
Biographical Description
Philip Livingston (1716-1778) was a charter trustee of Queen's College and a slave trader. He came from a wealthy landowning family in upstate New York and moved to New York City to operate the family's mercantile business, which was started by his father Philip Livingston (1686-1749). He invested heavily in slave-trading voyages to Africa and owned several plantations in the Caribbean as part of a vast international mercantile operation that revolved around the exploitation of Africans. These activities made him one of the richest men in 18th-century New York.

A signer of the Declaration of Independence, he held a variety of government roles representing the state of New York, including member of the Provincial Assembly (1759-1769), and state senator in 1777. He married Christina Ten Broeck in 1740. They had nine children, of whom daughter Sarah (1752-1814) would marry her cousin and future Queen's College President, the Rev. John Henry Livingston, in 1775.
Keywords
white person
enslaver
Rutgers University history
government official
U.S. Congress
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Places
Albany, New York
New York City, New York
Organization
Rutgers University
Relationship to Rutgers
Trustee (Founding 1766-1778)
Enslaver of
Name Unrecorded - Male {African man, Livingston household}
Parent of
Sarah Livingston (1752-1814)
Sibling of
William Livingston (1723-1790)
Spouse of
Christina Ten Broeck Livingston
References

“LIVINGSTON, Philip.” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/l000369.

This person is represented on the following page(s):
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Livingston
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714967
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Jesse Bayker
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