Tag: Livingston Manor

• Slavery on Livingston Manor

  

  Warning: This blog mentions several topics that may be triggering to some populations. Speaking on the subject of slavery Thomas Jefferson once said; “We have the wolf by the ear and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go” We tend to think of slavery as a southern issue, but it was the…

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  June 30, 2026

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  1790, 1790 census, american-history, black-history, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, clermont, Declaration of Independence, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fred Astair, Geoff Benton, George H. W. Bush, George III, George W. Bush, George Washington, Germantown, history, Livingston Manor, Livingtston, politics, Slavery, Statistics, thomas jefferson

• Scots on Livingston Land

  On April 16, 1746, an army of 5,400 Scottish Highlanders, who had rebelled against the British Hanoverian king to support Charles Stuart’s claim to the throne of England, stood across Culloden Moor from an army of 9,000 British regular soldiers commanded by the Duke of Cumberland. The two sides exchanged cannon fire.             At 1:00…

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  March 24, 2022

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  Ancram, Charles Stuart, Cheviot, Culloden, Duke of Cumberland, Geoff Benton, Linlithgo, Livingston Manor, Revolutionary War, Robert Livingston the Founder, Scotland, targe, William Johnson