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3 unusual facts about Livingston family


Benner House

By 1850, locally prominent landowners the Livingston family owned the house, using it as a support building for their nearby Grasmere estate.

Daniel Patterson

Daniel Patterson's mother, Catherine Livingston, was a daughter of the "Third Lord of the Manor" of Livingston, Robert Livingston (1708–1790) (also see Livingston family).

Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter

After years in work camps to pay back the cost of passage, in a failed attempt by the British to produce naval stores on the lands of the Livingston family in today's Columbia County, some of the Germans settled in today's Rhinebeck, swelling the population of an area lightly settled by the Dutch a few decades before.



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