A

MEMOIR OF THE LIFE

OF

WILLIAM LIVINGSTON,

MEMBER OF CONGRESS IN 1774, 1775, and 1776;
DELEGATE TO THE FEDERAL CONVENTION IN 1787, AND
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NEW-JERSEY

FROM 1776 TO 1790.

WITH

EXTRACTS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE, AND NOTICES OF
VARIOUS MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY.

"Civis, senator, maritus, gener, amicus, cunctis vitæ officiis equabilis,
opum contemptor, recti pervicax, constans adversus metus."

The Gift

Edware Buck, Erg.
Reat. Sept. 23,1570.

[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by J. & J. Harper, in the office of the Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.]

TO WILLIAM JAY, ESQ.

OF BEDFORD, NEW-YORK.

In placing your name, my dear sir, upon the dedication. page of this memoir of your maternal grandfather, no one, I hope, will attribute to me the intention of rendering you responsible, even in a remote degree, for the deficiencies, perhaps the positive errors, of an early effort. First-fruits are not always acceptable offerings.

I have taken this liberty without your permission, flattering myself, at the same time, that whatever reception this volume may meet with in the world of critics, and however little it may add to the materials of American history, you, sir, will appreciate the motives which prompted it, and accept without reluctance this trifling tribute of the sincere regard and respect with which I am

Your obliged friend, and

Most obedient servant,

THEODORE SEDGWICK, Jun.

New-York, 27th January, 1833.