THE LIVINGSTON LEGACY
Three Centuries of American History
Edited by Richard T. Wiles and Andrea K. Zimmermann
from the Symposium sponsored by the Friends of Clermont,
Bard College/Hudson Valley Studies Program,
and the New York State Office of Parks,
Recreation, & Historic Preservation,
Taconic Region.
June 6-7, 1986
TABLE of CONTENTS
- Preface
- by Richard C. Wills
- Introduction
- by Bruce E. Naramore
- Keynote: Robert Livingston and Moral Judgment
- Sung Bok Kim
UNIT I -- Livingston Manor:
A Regional Approach to History
- The Livingstons' Colonial Land Policy:
Personal Gain over Public Need
- by Dr. William P. McDermott
- The Spur at the Heel of the Manor:
Salisbury, Connecticut and the Livingstons
- by William F. Morrill
- The Livingstons as Slave Owners:
The "Peculiar Institution" on Livingston Manor
and Clermont
- by Roberta Singer
- The William Wilson Papers:
Opportunities for Research
- by Dr. H. Roger King
UNIT II --The Clermont Livingstons
- Archaeology at Clermont:
The Eighteenth-Century Material Culture of the
Livingston Household
- by Dennis L. Wentworth
- Robert R. Livingston, Jr.:
The Reluctant Revolutionary
- by Clare Brandt
- John Peter Tétard and Clermont
- by William A. Tieck
- John R. Livingston and the American Revolution
- by Lorna Skaaren
UNIT III -- Cultural Development in the New Nation:
A New York Perspective
- Domestic Politics and Inheritance Patterns:
The Family Papers of William Livingston
- by Claire McCurdy
- Music in the Livingston Household
- by Geoffrey Miller
- John Henry Livingston: 1746 - 1825
- by Herman Harmelink III
UNIT IV -- Revolution and Reaction:
The Livingston Family and the Question of Independence
- The Other Livingston: William
- by Milton M. Klein
- William Livingston:
The Trials of a War Governor
- by Carl E. Prince and Mary Lou Lustig
- Robert Cambridge Livingston:
Eighteenth-Century Politician
- by James D. Livingston
UNIT V: -- Patronage and Entrepreneurship
- Robert R. Livingston:
Enthusiastic Inventor, Prudent Entrepreneur - by Cynthia Owen Philip
- An Iron Experiment:
The Livingston Ironworks and the Colonial Iron Industry, 1743 - 1790
- by Sally A. Bottiggi
- "Iron Will not Decay"
The Ancram Ironworks, 1749 - 1790
- by Roberta S. Singer
- From Entrepreneurs to Ornaments:
The Livingston Women, 1679 - 1790
- by Cynthia A. Kierner
- Johnston Livingston, the Express Business,
and the California Connection
- by Sylvie R. Griffiths
- Conversations with the Historians
- Edited by Bruce Naramore and Marilyn Holst
UNIT VI--The Dissolution of Manorial Society
- The Livingston Presence in the Great or
Hardenbergh Patent
- by Alf Evers
- The Breakup of Livingston Manor
- by James Duane Livingston and Sherry H. Penney
- Olin Dows:
Art, History, and a Usable Past
- by Dr. William B. Rhoads
- Contributors
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