Tag: Chancellor Robert R. Livingston
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“Good Fishing Before the Door”: How Robert Livingston Would Have Fished
On May 17, 1776, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston wrote to his friend John Jay. Livingston had been searching for lodging for the two of them and their wives close to Philadelphia but outside the city proper. They were both planning to return to the Continental Congress after extended absences. Livingston wrote “However I have…
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Cato Strikes Back
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America or as it is more commonly known, The Jay Treaty, named after its American negotiator, was a sharply dividing document in American history and lead to the strengthening of a two-party system in the states. The treaty became…
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The Short-Lived Stockbridge Settlement at Clermont
According to William Strickland, an Englishman who visited Clermont in 1794, “upon a swamp near Clermont, some families of the Stockbridge Indians have resided til within this twelvemonth…” [i] The Stockbridge were mainly Mohicans. The Mohicans had settled what became known as the Hudson River Valley thousands of years ago. They called the river,…
Clermont State Historic Site 