Anne Shippen

Anne Hume "Nancy" Livingston (born Shippen) (24 February 1763 – 25 August 1841) was an American journal writer.

[3] Shippen was romanced by the French diplomat Louis-Guillaume Otto, but her father decided that he would marry her to Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston in 1781.

[2] Her husband commanded the 4th New York Regiment at the Battles of Saratoga and Monmouth and during the winter at Valley Forge.

The marriage was not a success and Anne returned to Shippen House where she started a journal in 1783.

This is the reason that she is remembered as it gives an insight into her social life and later her thwarted attempts to obtain a divorce.