[2] Shortly after he acquired 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km2; 1,600 sq mi) of the Catskill Mountains in what had formerly been the Hardenbergh Patent.
[5] Livingston found himself embroiled in a border dispute with Massachusetts when some New Englanders began to settle on the eastern portion of the Manor.
Some of the settlers were Livingston's own tenants, who tired of paying rent moved east and contended they were now in Massachusetts.
Settlement was disbursed, with areas adjoining waterways, mills, and ironworks, the more densely populated.
[7] During the Revolution, he made available to the New York Committee of Safety and the Continental Army, the iron mines and foundry on the Manor,[8] while his sons, Peter Robert, Walter, John and Henry, were actively involved on the American side.