Peter R. Livingston (politician, born 1737)

Col. Peter Robert Livingston (April 27, 1737 – November 13, 1794) was an American landowner, soldier and politician.

[2] He was the great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder, a New York colonial official, fur trader, and businessman who was granted a patent to 160,000 acres (650 km2/ 250 sq mi) along the Hudson River, and becoming the first lord of Livingston Manor.

[3] His father expected Peter and his brothers to take their place as his business agents and had them educated accordingly.

He withdrew from the Assembly in 1768 to make way for his uncle, Philip, but was returned in 1774 and was the last to hold office under manorial rights.

Together, they were the parents of eleven children, including:[4] He died on November 13, 1794, at his home in Livingston.

The house was sold among Livingston family members for many years but wasn't completed until 1939 when "a wing and lifted the roof, adding another story and a half and a portico - a covered porch supported by columns" were added by Ida Helen Ogilvie, founder and former head of Barnard College's Geology department, and her architect, Harold R.