Livingston family.

The Livingstons are a prominent New York State family which has played an active role in American commerce, politics, military, industry, and society since 1686, when the British crown deeded Livingston Manor, 160,000 acres of land in the Hudson River Valley, to Robert Livingston (1654-1728). Within a century, through marriage and purchase, the manor grew to encompass over 250 square miles of land between the Hudson River and the present border of Massachusetts, comprising what is now the southern half of New York State's Columbia County. Throughout the manor lands family members and descendants developed nearly forty country houses, including Oak Hill, built in the mid-1790s by John Livingston (1750-1822), son of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), third and last Lord of Livingston Manor. The material that comprises the Livingston Family Papers was removed from Oak Hill in 2003 by Henry H. Livingston (1918-2008), the seventh owner of the house, and sixth-generation Livingston to live there. A Livingston family tree appears below; biographical sketches of John Livingston and his descendants appear in Series I through VIII of the finding aid. Additional family history, genealogical, and biographical information can be found within the papers, as well as in Ruth Piwonka's volume, A Portrait of Livingston Manor, 1686-1850 (1986).

The Curran family of Utica, New York, and Mulford family of New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City, became related to the Livingstons in 1916 when Henry H. Livingston married Mary Eleanor Curran; the Currans and Mulfords had been united forty years earlier through the marriage of Mary Eleanor's parents, John Elliott Curran and Eliza Phillips Mulford. Biographical sketches of these families, along with pertinent genealogical material, is found in Series XI; family trees for each appear below.

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