Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
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- Robert Livingston (1654-1728) — also known as
"First Lord of the Manor" — of New York. Born
in Ancrum, Roxburghshire, Scotland,
0.
Son of Rev. John Livingston; married 1679 to
Alida Schuyler; uncle of Robert
Livingston (1663-1725); father of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; grandfather of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston (1716-1778), Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William
Livingston; great-grandfather of Peter
R. Livingston, Walter
Livingston, Philip
Livingston (1740-1810), Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry
Brockholst Livingston and Edward
Livingston; great-great-grandfather of Henry
Walter Livingston, Edward
Philip Livingston and Charles
Ludlow Livingston; ancestor of Robert
Livingston Beeckman. Fur
trader; member of New York
colonial assembly, 1709-11, 1716-26; Speaker
of New York Colonial Assembly, 1718. Died in 1728.
Burial
location unknown.
- Fitz John Winthrop — of New London, New London
County, Conn. Father-in-law of John
Livingston. Colonial
Governor of Connecticut, 1698-1708. Burial
location unknown.
- Robert Livingston (1663-1725) — of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y. Born in 0.
Nephew of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728). Mayor of
Albany, N.Y., 1710-19. Died in 1725.
Original interment at Dutch
Church Burial Ground, Albany, N.Y.; reinterment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
- John Livingston (1680-1720) — of Connecticut. Born
in 0.
Son of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); son-in-law of Fitz
John Winthrop; brother of Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; uncle of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston and William
Livingston. Member of Connecticut
colonial assembly. Died in 1720.
Burial
location unknown.
- Robert Livingston (1688-1775) — of New York. Born in
0.
Son of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); brother of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; married 1717 to
Margaret Howarden (1693-1758); uncle of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; father of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); grandfather of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Alida Livingston (who married John
Armstrong, Jr.), Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan
Lewis) and Edward
Livingston. Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1726-27. Died June 27,
1775. Burial
location unknown.
- Gilbert Livingston (1690-1746) — of New York. Born
in 0.
Son of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); brother of John
Livingston and Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); uncle of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston, Robert
R. Livingston and William
Livingston. Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1728-37. Died in 1746.
Burial
location unknown.
- Robert Livingston (1708-1790) — also known as
"Third Lord of the Manor" — of New York. Born
in 1708.
Grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); nephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; brother of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston (1716-1778) and William
Livingston; first cousin of Robert
R. Livingston; father-in-law of James
Duane; father of Peter
R. Livingston and Walter
Livingston; uncle of Philip
Livingston (1740-1810) and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; uncle by marriage of John
Jay, William
Duer and John
Kean. Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1737-58. Died in 1790.
Burial
location unknown.
- Richard Bland (1710-1776) — of Virginia. Born in Orange
County, Va., May 6,
1710. Son of Richard Bland (1665-1720) and Elizabeth (Randolph)
Bland (1680-1720); married to Martha Macon; first cousin of Peyton
Randolph; uncle of Theodorick
Bland; granduncle of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee and Richard
Bland Lee; great-great-granduncle of Fitzhugh
Lee and William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774. Died in Williamsburg,
Va., October
26, 1776. Interment in private or family graveyard. Bland County,
Va. is named for him.
- Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792) — also known
as Peter V. B. Livingston — of New York
County, N.Y. Born in 1710.
Grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); nephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; brother of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Philip
Livingston (1716-1778) and William
Livingston; first cousin of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); uncle by marriage of James
Duane, John
Cleves Symmes, John
Jay and William
Duer; uncle of Peter
R. Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; father of Philip
Livingston (1740-1810); first cousin once removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813) and Edward
Livingston; father-in-law of John
Kean; granduncle of Henry
Walter Livingston and Edward
Philip Livingston; grandfather of Charles
Ludlow Livingston. Member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1784-85. Died in 1792.
Burial
location unknown.
- John Stevens (1715-1792) — of New Jersey. Born in
Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., 1715.
Father-in-law of Robert
R. Livingston; great-great-great-grandfather of Archibald
Stevens Alexander and Millicent
Hammond Fenwick. Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1783. Died May 10,
1792. Interment at Frame
Meeting House Cemetery, Lambertville, N.J.
- Philip Livingston (1716-1778) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., January
15, 1716. Grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); nephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; brother of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and William
Livingston; first cousin of Robert
R. Livingston (1718-1775); uncle by marriage of James
Duane, John
Cleves Symmes, John
Jay, William
Duer and John
Kean; uncle of Peter
R. Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin once removed of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813) and Edward
Livingston; granduncle of Henry
Walter Livingston; grandfather of Edward
Philip Livingston; ancestor of Robert
Livingston Beeckman. Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1769, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775-78; died in office
1778; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1777-78; died in office 1778. Presbyterian.
Died while attending the sixth session of the Continental
Congress in York, York
County, Pa., June 12,
1778. Entombed at Prospect
Hill Cemetery, York, Pa.
- John Armstrong (1717-1795) — also known as
"Hero of Kittanny" — of Pennsylvania. Born in
Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), October
13, 1717. Son of James Armstrong ; married to Rebecca Lyon;
father of James
Armstrong (1748-1828) and John
Armstrong, Jr.. Civil
engineer; surveyor;
general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1778-80. Died in
Carlisle, Cumberland
County, Pa., March 9,
1795. Interment at Old
Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Pa. Armstrong County,
Pa. is named for him.
- Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) — of New York. Born
in 1718.
Grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); nephew of John
Livingston and Gilbert
Livingston; son of Robert
Livingston (1688-1775); first cousin of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston and William
Livingston; married to Margaret Beekman; father of Robert
R. Livingston (1746-1813), Alida Livingston (who married John
Armstrong, Jr.), Gertrude Livingston (who married Morgan
Lewis) and Edward
Livingston; grandfather-in-law and first cousin twice removed of
Edward
Philip Livingston. Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1769-74. Died in Clermont, Columbia
County, N.Y., December
9, 1775. Burial
location unknown.
- Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) — of Virginia. Born in
Williamsburg,
Va., 1721.
Son of John Randolph (1693-1737); first cousin of Richard
Bland; brother-in-law of Benjamin
Harrison; first cousin once removed of Theodorick
Bland; uncle of Edmund
Jenings Randolph. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75. Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
22, 1775. Interment at College
of William and Mary Chapel, Williamsburg, Va. Randolph County,
N.C. is named for him.
- Samuel Adams (1722-1803) — also known as
"The Tribune of the People"; "The Cromwell
of New England"; "Determinatus";
"The Psalm Singer"; "Amendment
Monger"; "American Cato"; "Samuel
the Publican" — of Massachusetts. Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., September
27, 1722. Married 1749 to
Elizabeth Checkley; married 1764 to
Elizabeth Wells; third cousin of John
Adams; uncle of Joseph
Allen; granduncle of Charles
Allen; great-grandfather of Elizabeth Wells Randall (who married
Alfred
Cumming); ancestor of John
Quincy Adams. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779, 1788; member
of Massachusetts
state senate, 1781; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1788; Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts, 1789-94; Governor of
Massachusetts, 1793-97; received 15 electoral votes, 1796.
Congregationalist.
Died in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., October
2, 1803. Interment at Old
Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
- Charles Carroll, Barrister (1723-1783) — of
Maryland. Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., March 22,
1723. Cousin of Daniel
Carroll and Charles
Carroll of Carrollton. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1776-77; member of Maryland
state senate, 1777-83; died in office 1783. Episcopalian.
Died in Baltimore
County, Md., March 23,
1783. Burial
location unknown.
- William Livingston (1723-1790) — of Elizabeth, Union
County, N.J. Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., November
30, 1723. Grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); nephew of John
Livingston, Robert
Livingston (1688-1775) and Gilbert
Livingston; brother of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790), Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; first cousin of Robert
R. Livingston; uncle by marriage of James
Duane, William
Duer and John
Kean; uncle of Peter
R. Livingston; father-in-law of John
Cleves Symmes and John
Jay; father of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; granduncle of Henry
Walter Livingston and Edward
Philip Livingston. Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1759-61; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1774-76; Governor of
New Jersey, 1776-90; died in office 1790; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787. Presbyterian.
Died July 25,
1790. Originally entombed at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; re-entombed in 1846 at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) — also known as
"The Signer" — of Virginia. Born in Charles City
County, Va., April 5,
1726. Brother-in-law of Peyton
Randolph; father of Carter
Bassett Harrison and William
Henry Harrison (1773-1841); uncle of Beverley
Randolph; grandfather of John
Scott Harrison; ancestor of James
Thomas Harrison; granduncle of Carter
Henry Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901); great-great-grandfather of Russell
Benjamin Harrison; great-granduncle of Carter
Henry Harrison II; great-great-great-grandfather of William
Henry Harrison (1896-1990). Planter; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state
legislature, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1782-84. Died April 24,
1791. Interment at Berkeley
Plantation, Charles City County, Va. Harrison County,
W.Va. is named for him.
- Lewis Morris (1726-1798) — of New York. Born in
Bronx, Bronx
County, N.Y., April 8,
1726. Half-brother of Gouverneur
Morris; uncle of Lewis
Richard Morris; great-great-grandfather of John
Kean; ancestor of Hamilton
Fish, Jr.. Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1777-78, 1780-81, 1783-90. Died
January
22, 1798. Interment at St.
Anne's Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.
- Joseph Jones (1727-1805) — of Virginia. Born in King George
County, Va., 1727.
Uncle of James
Monroe. Delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; member of
Virginia state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1777; state court judge in
Virginia, 1778. Died in Fredericksburg,
Va., October
28, 1805. Burial
location unknown.
- Daniel Carroll (1730-1796) — of Maryland. Born in
Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, Md., July 22,
1730. Cousin of Charles
Carroll, Barrister and Charles
Carroll of Carrollton; uncle of Richard
Brent; great-grandfather of Charles
Holker Carroll. Member of Maryland
state senate, 1781-90; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1781-83; signer,
Articles of Confederation, 1781; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1789-91. Catholic.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Rock Creek, Montgomery
County, Md., May 7,
1796. Interment at St.
John's Catholic Cemetery, Forest Glen, Md.
- Archibald Bulloch (c.1730-1777) — of Georgia. Born
in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C. Father of William
Bellinger Bulloch; great-great-grandfather of Theodore
Roosevelt; great-great-great-grandfather of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775. Georgia's first
provisional governor, 1776-77. Died February
22, 1777. Interment at Colonial
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga. Bulloch County,
Ga. is named for him.
- John Williams of Montpelier (1731-1799) — of
Granville County (part now in Vance
County), N.C. Born in Hanover
County, Va., March 14,
1731. Double first cousin of Richard
Henderson and Thomas
Henderson; first cousin of John
Williams, Nathaniel
Williams, Jr., Robert
Williams and Joseph
Williams of Shallow Ford; father-in-law of Robert
Burton; double first cousin once removed of Archibald
Henderson; double first cousin once removed and uncle by marriage
of Leonard
Henderson. Delegate to
North Carolina provincial congress, 1775; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1777-78; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1778-79; associate
justice of North Carolina state supreme court, 1779-99. Died in
Montpelier, Vance
County, N.C., October
10, 1799. Interment at a
private or family graveyard, Vance County, N.C.
- Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) — of Virginia. Born in
Westmoreland
County, Va., January
20, 1732. Brother of Francis
Lightfoot Lee and Arthur
Lee; first cousin once removed of Henry
Lee and Richard
Bland Lee; first cousin once removed and father-in-law of Charles
Lee; second cousin once removed of Zachary
Taylor; great-grandfather of Francis
Preston Blair Lee; great-great-grandfather of Edward
Brooke Lee. Democrat. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state
legislature, 1777; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1789-92. Died in Westmoreland
County, Va., June 19,
1794. Interment at Burnt
House Field Cemetery, Near Hague, Westmoreland County, Va. Lee
counties in Ga. and Ill. are
named for him.
- George Washington (1732-1799) — also known as
"Father of His Country" — of Virginia. Born in
Westmoreland
County, Va., February
22, 1732. Son of Augustine Washington and Mary (Ball) Washington;
married, January
6, 1759, to Martha (Dandridge) Custis; uncle of Bushrod
Washington; uncle by marriage of Burwell
Bassett; granduncle of George
Corbin Washington; granduncle by marriage of Charles
Magill Conrad. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; President
of the United States, 1789-97. Episcopalian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons.
As the leader of the Revolution, he could have been King; instead, he
served as the first
President and stepped down after two terms. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. quarter
(25
cent coin), and on the $1
dollar bill. His portrait also appeared on various other
denominations of U.S. currency,
and on the Confederate States $50
note during the Civil War. Died, probably from acute bacterial
epiglottitis, at Mt. Vernon, Fairfax
County, Va., December
14, 1799. Entombed at Mt.
Vernon, Mt. Vernon, Va.; statue erected 1860 at Washington
Circle, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at National
Mall, Washington, D.C. Washington counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Minn., Miss., Mo., Neb., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., Tenn., Tex., Utah, Vt., Va. and Wis. are
named for him.
- Cross-reference: Henry
Lee; Joshua
Fry; Alexander
Dimitry; Tobias
Lear; David
Matthews; Rufus
Putnam
- See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams
family
- See also: congressional
biography; Wikipedia
article.
- Books about George Washington: Richard
Brookhiser, Founding
Father: Rediscovering George Washington; James Thomas Flexner, Washington:
The Indispensable Man; Willard Sterne Randall, George
Washington : A Life; Richard Norton Smith, Patriarch
: George Washington and the New American Nation; Henry Wiencek,
An
Imperfect God : George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of
America; James MacGregor Burns, George
Washington; Joseph J. Ellis, His
Excellency, George Washington; Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson; Wendie C. Old, George
Washington (for young readers)
- Thomas Johnson (1732-1819) — of Anne
Arundel County, Md. Born in Calvert
County, Md., November
4, 1732. Son of Thomas Johnson and Dorcas (Sedgewick) Johnson;
married to Ann Jennings; brother of Joshua
Johnson; uncle of Louisa Catherine Johnson (1775-1852) (who
married John
Quincy Adams). Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-76, 1779-81; general
in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to
Maryland state constitutional convention, 1776; Governor of
Maryland, 1777-79; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1780-81, 1786-88; state court judge in
Maryland, 1790-91; Justice
of U.S. Supreme Court, 1791-93. Episcopalian.
Died near Frederick, Frederick
County, Md., October
26, 1819. Original interment at All
Saints' Episcopal Churchyard, Frederick, Md.; reinterment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.
- James Duane (1733-1797) — of New York, New York
County, N.Y. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1733. Son-in-law of Robert
Livingston; nephew by marriage of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston (1716-1778) and William
Livingston; brother-in-law of Peter
R. Livingston and Walter
Livingston; first cousin by marriage of Philip
Livingston (1740-1810) and Henry
Brockholst Livingston. Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1774-83; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1782-85, 1787-90; mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1784-89; U.S.
District Judge for New York, 1790-94. Died February
1, 1797. Interment at Christ
Episcopal Church, Duanesburg, N.Y.
- Robert Morris (1734-1806) — of Pennsylvania. Born in
Liverpool, England,
January
20, 1734. Father-in-law of James
Markham Marshall; father of Thomas
Morris. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Pennsylvania
state house of representatives, 1785; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-95. Episcopalian.
Financier of the American Revolution, but went broke in the process.
Imprisoned
for debt from
February 1798 to August 1801. His portrait appeared on the U.S. $10
silver certificate in the 1870s and 1880s. Died in Philadelphia,
Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 8,
1806. Entombed at Christ
Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Pa.
- Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797) — of Virginia.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., October
14, 1734. Brother of Richard
Henry Lee and Arthur
Lee. Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia
state senate, 1778; member of Virginia state legislature, 1780.
Died January
11, 1797. Interment at a
private or family graveyard, Richmond County, Va.
- Thomas Gantt, Jr. (d. 1808) — of Prince
George's County, Md. Married to Susannah Mackall (sister of Benjamin
Mackall IV and Thomas
Mackall). Member, Convention of 1774. Died in 1808.
Burial
location unknown.
- John Adams (1735-1826) — also known as "His
Rotundity"; "The Duke of Braintree";
"American Cato"; "Old Sink and
Swim"; "The Colossus of Independence";
"Father of the American Navy" — of Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass. Born in Braintree (part now in Quincy), Norfolk
County, Mass., October
30, 1735. Son of John Adams and Susanna (Boylston) Adams; third
cousin of Samuel
Adams; married, October
25, 1764, to Abigail Smith (1744-1818) (aunt of William
Cranch); father of Abigail Amelia Adams (1765-1813) (who married
William
Stephens Smith) and John
Quincy Adams (1767-1848); grandfather of George
Washington Adams and Charles
Francis Adams (1807-1886); great-grandfather of John
Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and Brooks
Adams; ancestor of William
Rush Merriam, Vinson
Martlow Whitley and Eugene
H. Nickerson; great-great-grandfather of Charles
Francis Adams (1866-1954); great-great-great-grandfather of Thomas
Boylston Adams. Lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1774-78; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1781-88; Great Britain, 1785-88; Vice
President of the United States, 1789-97; President
of the United States, 1797-1801; defeated (Federalist), 1800; delegate to
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820. Unitarian.
English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. Died in Quincy, Norfolk
County, Mass., July 4,
1826. Original interment at Hancock
Cemetery, Quincy, Mass.; reinterment at United
First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass. Adams counties in Idaho, Iowa, Miss., Neb., Ohio, Pa., Wash. and Wis. are
named for him.
- Richard Henderson (1735-1785) — of North Carolina.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., April 20,
1735. Double first cousin of John
Williams of Montpelier; first cousin of John
Williams, Nathaniel
Williams, Jr., Robert
Williams and Joseph
Williams of Shallow Ford; brother of Thomas
Henderson; father of Archibald
Henderson and Leonard
Henderson. Lawyer;
superior court judge in North Carolina, 1768-73; member of North
Carolina state legislature. Anglican.
Pioneer and colonizer in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky;
organized what became known as the Transylvania Land Company, which
made treaties with the Cherokees, hired Daniel Boone as advance agent
to blaze a trail through the Cumberland Gap, and created Transylvania
Colony in Kentucky and Tennessee. Died in Granville
County, N.C., January
30, 1785. Interment at a
private or family graveyard, Vance County, N.C.
- Patrick Henry (1736-1799) — of Virginia. Born in
Studley, Hanover
County, Va., May 29,
1736. Cousin of Isaac
Coles; uncle by marriage of Francis
Preston; uncle of Priscilla Christian (who married Alexander
Scott Bullitt); grandfather of William
Henry Roane; granduncle of William
Campbell Preston; great-great-great-grandfather of Robert
Lee Henry; ancestor of Lloyd
Lee Gravely. Lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; general in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Virginia, 1776; delegate to
Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; member of
Virginia
state senate, 1799. Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1920. Died near Brookneal, Campbell
County, Va., June 6,
1799. Interment at Red
Hill Cemetery, Brookneal, Va. Henry counties in Ala., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., Mo., Ohio, Tenn. and Va. are named
for him.
- Carter Braxton (1736-1797) — of Virginia. Born in King and
Queen County, Va., September
16, 1736. Son of George Braxton and Mary (Carter) Braxton;
married 1755
to Judith Robinson; married 1761 to
Elizabeth Corbin; grandfather-in-law of William
Brockenbrough; grandfather of Mary Page White (who married Andrew
Stevenson); great-grandfather of John
White Brockenbrough, John
White Stevenson and Elliott
Muse Braxton; ancestor of William
Tyler Page. Member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-75; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776. Died in Richmond,
Va., October
10, 1797. Interment at a
private or family graveyard, King William County, Va. Braxton County,
W.Va. is named for him.
- Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) — of
Maryland. Born in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County, Md., September
19, 1737. Cousin of Charles
Carroll, Barrister and Daniel
Carroll; great-grandfather of John
Lee Carroll; great-great-grandfather of John
Howell Carroll; great-great-great-grandfather of Suzanne Howell
Carroll (who married John
Boynton Philip Clayton Hill). Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1776-81; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland
state senate, 1777-1800; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1789-92. Catholic.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., November
14, 1832. Interment at Doughoregan
Manor Chapel, Ellicott City, Md. Carroll counties in Ark., Ga., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Md., Miss., Mo., N.H., Ohio and Va., East Carroll
Parish, La. and West Carroll
Parish, La., are named for him.
- Peter R. Livingston (1737-1794) — of Albany
County, N.Y. Born in 1737.
Great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); son of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); nephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston, Philip
Livingston (1716-1778) and William
Livingston; brother-in-law of James
Duane; brother of Walter
Livingston; first cousin of Philip
Livingston (1740-1810) and Henry
Brockholst Livingston; first cousin by marriage of John
Cleves Symmes, John
Jay, William
Duer and John
Kean; second cousin of Robert
R. Livingston and Edward
Livingston; uncle of Henry
Walter Livingston. Member of New York
colonial assembly, 1761-69, 1774-76; member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1780-81. Died in 1794.
Burial
location unknown.
- John Bubenheim Bayard (1738-1807) — of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia
County, Pa.; New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J. Born in Bohemia Manor, Cecil
County, Md., August
11, 1738. Great-grandnephew of Peter Stuyvesant (Dutch colonial
governor of New Amsterdam); son of James Bayard and Mary (Ashton)
Bayard; married to Margaret Hodge and Mary Hodgden; married 1787 to
Johannah White; double uncle and adoptive father of James
Asheton Bayard, Sr.; father of Jane Bayard (who married Andrew
Kirkpatrick); grandfather of Littleton
Kirkpatrick; great-great-great-great-grandfather of Millicent
Hammond Fenwick. Merchant;
member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1785; mayor
of New Brunswick, N.J., 1790. Died in New Brunswick, Middlesex
County, N.J., January
7, 1807. Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, New Brunswick, N.J.
- Arthur Lee (1740-1792) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., December
20, 1740. Brother of Richard
Henry Lee and Francis
Lightfoot Lee. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1781; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1782. Died December
12, 1792. Interment in private or family graveyard.
- Walter Livingston (1740-1797) — of Albany
County, N.Y. Born November
27, 1740. Great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); son of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); nephew of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston; brother-in-law of James
Duane; brother of Peter
R. Livingston; first cousin by marriage of John
Cleves Symmes, John
Jay, William
Duer and John
Kean; first cousin of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; second cousin of Edward
Livingston; father of Henry
Walter Livingston; first cousin once removed of Edward
Philip Livingston. Member of New York
state assembly from Albany County, 1777-79, 1784-85; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1777-79; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1784. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 14,
1797. Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.
- Philip Livingston (1740-1810) — of New York. Born in
1740.
Great-grandson of Robert
Livingston (1654-1728); nephew of Robert
Livingston (1708-1790); son of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston; first cousin by marriage of James
Duane, John
Cleves Symmes, John
Jay and William
Duer; first cousin of Peter
R. Livingston; brother-in-law of John
Kean; second cousin of Edward
Livingston; father of Charles
Ludlow Livingston. Member of New York
state assembly from Westchester County, 1788-89; member of New York
state senate Southern District, 1789-93, 1795-98. Died in 1810.
Burial
location unknown.
- John Williams (1740-1804) — of Orange
County, N.C.; Caswell
County, N.C. Born in Hanover
County, Va., July 7,
1740. First cousin of John
Williams of Montpelier, Richard
Henderson and Thomas
Henderson; brother of Nathaniel
Williams, Jr., Robert
Williams and Joseph
Williams of Shallow Ford; grandfather of Christopher
Harris Williams; great-great-grandfather of John
Sharp Williams. Delegate to
North Carolina provincial congress, 1775; colonel in the
Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1778-80; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1782, 1793-94. Died in Caswell
County, N.C., December, 1804.
Interment somewhere
in Locust Hill, N.C.
- Cuthbert Bullitt (1740-1791) — Born in Prince
William County, Va., 1740.
Married, August
27, 1761, to Helen Scott; father of Alexander
Scott Bullitt. Lawyer; planter;
shot and killed John
Baylis in a duel
on September 24, 1765; later tried for
the killing
and acquitted; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776. Anglican;
later Episcopalian.
Died in Prince
William County, Va., 1791.
Burial
location unknown.
- Theodorick Bland (1742-1790) — of Virginia. Born in
Cawsons, Prince
George County, Va., March 21,
1742. Nephew of Richard
Bland; son of Theodorick Bland and Frances (Bolling) Bland;
first cousin once removed of Peyton
Randolph; married to Martha Dangerfield; uncle of John
Randolph of Roanoke. Served in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83; delegate to
Virginia state constitutional convention, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1789-90; died in office
1790. Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 1,
1790. Original interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1828 at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Jacquelin Ambler (1742-1798) — of Virginia. Born August 9,
1742. Father of Mary Willis Ambler (1766-1831) (who married John
Marshall); grandfather of Thomas
Marshall. Virginia
state treasurer. Died January
10, 1798. Interment at St.
John's Church Cemetery, Church Hill, Richmond, Va.
- John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) — Born in Riverhead,
Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., July 21,
1742. Nephew by marriage of Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1716-1778); son-in-law of William
Livingston; first cousin by marriage of Peter
R. Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1740-1810); married to the sister-in-law of John
Jay; brother-in-law of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; father of Anna Symmes (who married William
Henry Harrison). Served in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; associate
justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1777-87; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1785-86; justice of
Northwest Territory supreme court, 1788-1802. Died in Cincinnati,
Hamilton
County, Ohio, February
26, 1814. Interment at Congress
Green Cemetery, North Bend, Ohio.
- Nathaniel Williams, Jr. (1742-1805) — of Guilford
County, N.C. Born in Hanover
County, Va., October
1, 1742. First cousin of John
Williams of Montpelier, Richard
Henderson and Thomas
Henderson; brother of John
Williams, Robert
Williams and Joseph
Williams of Shallow Ford. Lawyer; planter; delegate to
North Carolina provincial congress, 1775. Accidentally drowned
while trying to ford a swollen stream, in Rockingham
County, N.C., January
25, 1805. Burial
location unknown.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) — also known as
"Apostle of Liberty"; "Sage of
Monticello"; "Friend of the People";
"Father of the University of Virginia" — of Albemarle
County, Va. Born in Albemarle
County, Va., April 13,
1743. Son of Peter Jefferson and Jane (Randolph) Jefferson;
married, January
1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton (died 1782); third cousin once
removed of John
Marshall; father-in-law of Thomas
Mann Randolph and John
Wayles Eppes; uncle of Dabney
Carr; second cousin once removed of William
Segar Archer; granduncle of Dabney
Smith Carr; grandfather of Virginia Jefferson Randolph (who
married Nicholas
Philip Trist), Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge and Frederick
Madison Roberts; great-great-grandfather of John
Gardner Coolidge; ancestor of Lloyd
Lee Gravely. Lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-76, 1783-84; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of
Virginia, 1779-81; member of Virginia state legislature, 1782;
U.S. Minister to France, 1785-89; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1790-93; Vice
President of the United States, 1797-1801; President
of the United States, 1801-09; defeated (Democratic-Republican),
1796. English
ancestry. Member, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society. He was elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. His portrait appears on the
U.S. nickel
(five
cent coin) since 1938, and on the $2
bill since the 1860s. Died near Charlottesville, Albemarle
County, Va., July 4,
1826. Interment at Monticello
Graveyard, Near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; cenotaph
at University
of Missouri Quadrangle, Columbia, Mo.; memorial monument at West
Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Jefferson counties in Ala., Ark., Colo., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mo., Mont., Neb., N.Y., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., Tenn., Tex., Wash., W.Va. and Wis. are
named for him.
- Cross-reference: Jefferson
M. Levy; Joshua
Fry
- See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams
family
- See also: congressional
biography; National
Governors Association biography; Wikipedia
article; Internet
Movie Database profile.
- Books about Thomas
Jefferson: Joseph J. Ellis, American
Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson; Willard Sterne
Randall, Thomas
Jefferson : A Life; R. B. Bernstein, Thomas
Jefferson; Joyce Appleby, Thomas
Jefferson; Gore Vidal, Inventing
A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson; John Ferling, Adams
vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800; Susan Dunn, Jefferson's
Second Revolution : The Election Crisis of 1800; Andrew Burstein,
Jefferson's
Secret: Death and Desire at Monticello; Christopher Hitchens, Thomas
Jefferson : Author of America
- Critical books about
Thomas Jefferson: Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's
Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the
Judiciary
- Joshua Clayton (1744-1798) — of Delaware. Born in Cecil
County, Md., July 20,
1744. Son of James Clayton and Eleanor (Edinfield) Clayton;
married to Rachel (McCleary) Bassett (adoptive daughter of Richard
Bassett); father of Thomas
Clayton; uncle of John
Middleton Clayton. Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delaware
state treasurer, 1786; President
of Delaware, 1789-92; Governor of
Delaware, 1793-96; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1798; died in office 1798. Presbyterian.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., August
11, 1798. Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, New Castle County, Del.; reinterment
at Bethel
Cemetery, Chesapeake City, Md.
- Robert Williams (1744-1790) — of North Carolina.
Born in Hanover
County, Va., August 4,
1744. First cousin of John
Williams of Montpelier, Richard
Henderson and Thomas
Henderson; brother of John
Williams, Nathaniel
Williams, Jr. and Joseph
Williams of Shallow Ford. Lawyer; Adjutant
General of North Carolina. Died in North Carolina, 1790.
Burial
location unknown.
- Richard Bassett (1745-1815) — of Delaware. Born in
Cecil
County, Md., April 2,
1745. Son of Michael Bassett and Judith (Thompson) Bassett;
married to Ann Ennals and Miss Bruff; father of Ann Bassett (who
married James
Asheton Bayard, Sr.); adoptive father of Rachel McCleary Bassett
(who married Joshua
Clayton); grandfather of Richard
Henry Bayard and James
Asheton Bayard, Jr.; great-grandfather of Thomas
Francis Bayard, Sr.; great-great-grandfather of Thomas
Francis Bayard, Jr.; ancestor of Alexis
Irenee du Pont Bayard. Lawyer;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Delaware
state senate, 1782; member of Delaware
state house of representatives, 1786; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1789-93; common pleas court judge in
Delaware, 1793-99; Governor of
Delaware, 1799-1801; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1801-02. Methodist.
Died in Cecil
County, Md., September
15, 1815. Interment at Wilmington
and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del.
- Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) — of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.; Luzerne
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa. Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1745. Son of Timothy Pickering and Mary (Wingate) Pickering;
married, April 8,
1776, to Rebecca White (1754-1828); great-great-grandfather of Augustus
Peabody Gardner; great-great-great-great-grandfather of William
Amory Gardner Minot. Farmer; Essex County
Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge in
Massachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts state
legislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; delegate to
Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1791-95; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1795-1800; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2nd
District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1817-18. Puritan;
later Unitarian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati. Censured
by the Senate in 1811 for violating an injunction
of secrecy. Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
29, 1829. Interment at Broad
Street Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
- Thomas Tudor Tucker (1745-1828) — of South Carolina.
Born in Port Royal, Bermuda,
June
25, 1745. Uncle of Henry
St. George Tucker. Physician;
member of South Carolina state legislature, 1776, 1782-83, 1785,
1787-88; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1787-88; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina at-large, 1789-93; treasurer
of the United States, 1801-28. Died in Washington,
D.C., May 2,
1828. Interment at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
- Thomas Sim Lee (1745-1819) — of Maryland. Born near
Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, Md., October
29, 1745. Son of Thomas Lee and Christian (Sim) Lee; married to
Mary Digges; first cousin of Richard
Potts; father of John
Lee; great-great-grandfather of John
Lee Carroll. Governor of
Maryland, 1779-82, 1792-94; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1782-83; Presidential
Elector for Maryland, 1792;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1794. Anglican;
later Catholic.
Died in Middleton Valley, Frederick
County, Md., October
9, 1819. Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Prince George's County, Md.;
reinterment in 1888 at Mt.
Carmel Roman Catholic Cemetery, Upper Marlboro, Md.
- John Jay (1745-1829) — of New York. Born in New
York, New York
County, N.Y., December
12, 1745. Nephew by marriage of Robert
Livingston, Peter
Van Brugh Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1716-1778); son-in-law of William
Livingston; first cousin by marriage of Peter
R. Livingston, Walter
Livingston and Philip
Livingston (1740-1810); married to the sister-in-law of John
Cleves Symmes; brother-in-law of Henry
Brockholst Livingston; father of
