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The Children Of Katharine Livingston Timpson: Helen Rosamund Timpson
Rosamund as a young woman This is the fifth in a series of five blogs that will explore the life of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson’s children. If Katharine was Clermont’s forgotten daughter, her children are the forgotten grandchildren. Whereas Katharine’s sisters Janet and Honoria had no children, Katharine had five children. They lived their…
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The Children of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson: John Alastair Timpson
Alastair rowing on an African lake during an R & R leave. Note the bandages on his hands covering blisters from his work in the desert. This is the fourth in a series of five blogs that will explore the life of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson’s children. If Katharine was Clermont’s forgotten daughter, her…
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The Children of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson: Robert Clermont Livingston Timpson
This is the third in a series of five blogs that will explore the life of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson’s children. If Katharine was Clermont’s forgotten daughter, her children are the forgotten grandchildren. Whereas Katharine’s sisters Janet and Honoria had no children, Katharine had five children. They lived their lives aware of their Livingston legacy…
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The Children of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson: Katherine Livingston Timpson
This is the second in a series of five blogs that will explore the life of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson’s children. If Katharine was Clermont’s forgotten daughter, her children are the forgotten grandchildren. Whereas Katharine’s sisters Janet and Honoria had no children, Katharine had five children. They lived their lives aware of their Livingston…
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The Children of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson: Theodore Livingston Timpson
This is the first in a series of five blogs that will explore the life of Katharine Livingston Livingston Timpson’s children. If Katharine was Clermont’s forgotten daughter, her children are the forgotten grandchildren. Whereas her sisters Janet and Honoria had no children, Katharine had five children. They lived their lives aware of their…
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Cooking with Rex McVitty: Lamb Curry
Rex and Honoria McVitty Today I present to you another blog written by Rex McVitty. This time it is his recipe for curry. This recipe was obtained by a visitor to Sylvan Cottage while Rex and Honoria Livingston McVitty were living there. Apparently this was his go to meal when visitors came calling. Without further…
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Ambition and Slander: Chancellor Robert R. Livingston\'s Run For Governor in 1798
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Chancellor Robert R. Livingston was an ambitious man. He secured several prominent political positions for himself, including Chancellor of New York and Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation government. But he lusted for the positions that were just beyond his reach. Not…
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Pierre-Etienne du Ponceau: The Indispensable and Long Lived Man
Pierre-Etienne du Ponceau or Peter Stephen du Ponceau after he anglicized it arrived in America at the age of 17 in the Company of the Baron von Steuben. Von Steuben had hired him, as a translator and aide-de-camp, in France. Some people have speculated that du Ponceau and von Steuben, a gay man, had…
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The Mysterious Muscoe Livingston: A Hunt Through History For A Man With a Fascinating Name
Muscoe Livingston, aka Musco and occasionally Muscow. This name has popped up in my research since 2018. He has proved to be elusive since then. Appearing in a document here and there but not in the Livingston genealogy. So, I finally decided to track this guy down and see who he…
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The Maple Sugar Bubble of the 1790\'s
Sugar Maple Tree Acer Sacharinum, The sugar maple tree. Every year, about this time, thousands of Sugar Maples are tapped so that the sap can be collected. Boiled it becomes syrup or even maple sugar. And there for a very brief time in the early 1790’s intersected abolitionists, land speculators…
Clermont State Historic Site 