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Catharine Tappan was a daughter of Peter & Elizabeth (Crannell)
Tappan. Her mother was a sister of Catherine Crannell who
married her husband's oldest brother, Gilbert Livingston. The
announcement of the marriage appeared as follows in the New
York Weekly Museum of Saturday March 10, 1792: "Robert H.
Livingston, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, and Caty
Tappan, eldest daughter of the Hon. Judge Tappan, were married
on Wednesday."
Mr. Livingston succeeded his father, Henry Livingston, as Clerk of
Dutchess County in 1789, and held the office until his death in
1804. His obituary in the Pokeepsie Journal of Tuesday, Sep 4th of
that year says: "On Friday last, at his house in this village, in his
44th year, Robert Henry Livingston, Esq., Clerk of Duchess
County. The mild manners and sweet disposition of this
gentleman endeared him to all and render his loss the subject of
universal regret. Early in life, he became a soldier of his country
and he was not 17 when he was embodied with the force which
filled this village when the British fleet and army spread
desolation along the shores of his native river. The two following
campaigns he was an officer in the service of the State on the
northwest frontier and in 1780, received a commission attaching
him to the corps of artillery in the army of the United States. With
that army he assisted at the siege of Yorktown, and only sheathed
his sword when every sword on the continent was returned to the
scabbard." During the Revolutionary War he was a Lieut. of Levies
under Col. Lewis Dubois July 1, 1780 to reinforce the army of the
U.S. and also under Col. Albert Pawling Apr 27, 1781, for
immediate defe nse of the State. On June 29, 1781, he was
commissioned a 2nd Lieut. in the Second Continental Artillery
and served to June 1783 (Liv. of Liv. Man. pp.231, 522 & 532).
His will, dated June 26, 1804 and proved Oct. 12, 1804, provided
for his wife and three children and distribution of his estate was
made after $300 had been set aside for the education of his only
son. As a widow Catharine Livingston was received into the Dutch
Church in Poughkeepsie Feb. 9, 1811, on Confession of Faith.
Sometime after the marriage of her daughter, Elizabeth, she went
to live with the latter in Philadelphia where she died May 1, 1841.
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Of George Henry Livingston, nothing is known except a vague tradition that he went to one of the Carolinas and married. The following item may apply to one of his descendants. Malvena Emma Livingston was born in St. Louis, Mo., a daughter of George Henry & Elizabeth Emma (Jarret) Livingston. On June 20, 1883, she mar. in San Francisco, Calif., Harold Sturges, 2nd, b. Feb. 24, 1858, in Duncans Falls, Ohio, a son of Shelton & Frances Rowena (Nye) Sturges. They had two children b. in Santa Barbara, Calif.: Livingston Monroe Sturges b. Apr. 10, 1885, and Rowena Spencer Sturges b. Sept. 22, 1887 (Desc. of Solomon Sturges, 1907, p.73).
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