Background
Livingston, Peter Van Brugh was born in October 1710 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Philip and Catharine (Van Brugh) Livingston.
Livingston, Peter Van Brugh was born in October 1710 in Albany, New York, United States. Son of Philip and Catharine (Van Brugh) Livingston.
Graduated from Yale, 1731.
Became a merchant, New York City, 1731. Supplied military expeditions, financed privateering ventures during French and Indian War. Trustee College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1748-1761.
Signed nonimportation agreement prompted by Sugar Acting, 1764.
Member of New York Committee of 51 organized to choose delegations to 1st Continental Congress, 1774. Member Committee of 60 and Committee of 100 (which acted successively as provisional government of New York), 1775.
Presiding officer New York Provincial Congress, 1775.
Member of New York Committee of 51 organized to choose delegations to 1st Continental Congress, 1774. Member Committee of 60 and Committee of 100 (which acted successively as provisional government of New York), 1775.
Married Mary Alexander, November 14, 1739. Married second, Elizabeth Ricketts, 1767.