April 7th Rare Autographs, Manuscripts and Sports Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2022
Robert Livingston ALS, Clermont, N.Y. September 1801.
Read In Part: "BEING ABOUT TO LEAVE AMERICA FOR SOME YEARS GIVE ME LEAVE TO OFFER YOU AS A SMALL TESTIMONY OF MY FRIENDSHIP & ESTEEM THE CELEBRATED WORK OF BISHOP CHESTER ON THE CREED. THO IT MAY CONTAIN NOTHING NEW TO YOU, IT MAY AT LEAST BE OCCASIONALLY SO DISPOSED OF BY YOU AS TO BE BENEFICIENT TO THE CAUSE OF CHRISTIANITY. PERMIT ME SIR TO SOLICIT YOUR PRAYERS, & THOSE OF YOUR CONGREGATION, FOR MYSELF & FAMILY AS OCCASION MAY OFFER TO BRING US TO YOUR REMEMBRANCE DURING OUR ABSENCE."
Robert Livingston (November 27, 1746 – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was known as "The Chancellor", after the high New York state legal office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman. Livingston administered the oath of office to George Washington when he assumed the presidency in 1789. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1801.
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