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Henry Welles Livingston, having recently passed the law bar, moved to Utica and received his license to practice before the Supreme Court, of which his brother-in-law, Arthur Breese, was now Chief Clerk. On the way to Boston to escort one of his sister Catharine's children to Arthur's sister Abigail, Henry wrote his father how much he was looking forward to seeing his family on his way back from Boston. But the greeting to which Henry Welles looked forward would have to be in Heaven. Upon getting word that his son was ill in Hartford, Henry and nineteen year old Charles rode off to help, while Jane and the children prayed them on their way. But when father and son returned, they were alone, and the black armbands on their coats told the waiting family that they need look no longer for the return of young Harry. All of Sarah's children were with their mother.