Tag: Robert R. Livingston

• Janet Montgomery Spills the Tea

  

  Forebear Predicted Revolution by Rex McVitty October 11, 1965 Today we read another article by Rex McVitty in which he quotes from Janet Livingston Montgomery’s remembrances, as recorded by her niece with a little bit of editing by Rex. Janet Montgomery lived now with her real parents at Clermont and she was enjoying life with…

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  July 26, 2026

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  Albanian Leks, Albany, Blessing, Bob the Builder, books, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, Earl of Clarendon, Edward Hyde, family history, Fortifications, genealogy, Governor, history, Janet Livingston Montgomery, Judge Robert R. Livingston, Lord Cornbury, loyalists, Margaret Wake Tryon, North Carolina, Predicting the future, Revolutionary War, Rex McVitty, Richard Montgomery, Robert Livingston the Founder, Robert of Clermont, Robert R. Livingston, Sir Henry Moore, The Battle of Bunker Hill, William Tryon, writing

• Remembrances of a Founder: Robert R. Livingston in Popular Memory

  

  If you haven’t been to Clermont yet this season you have missed out on our gallery exhibit “Remembrances of a Founder: Robert R. Livingston in Popular Memory.” This exhibit explores the way Livingston has been remembered in recent memory rather than how he lived.             The founding generation knew that they would be remembered for…

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  August 10, 2023

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  Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, clermont, exhibit, gallery, Robert R. Livingston, tour

• Full House: George And Martha Washington Visit Clermont

  

  George Washington and Martha Washington visited Clermont in the summer of 1783. George was on his way to visit the northern theater of the war and Martha would be staying with Margaret Beekman Livingston while George was in the north. When this incident is talked about at the site it is told as “George and…

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  November 13, 2022

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  Bejamin Walker, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Lincoln, Bezaleel Howe, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, David Humphreys, Dr. David Cobb, Frederick Philipse, George Washington, Hodijah Baylies, Horatio Gates, Israel Putnam, Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Margaret Beekman Livingston, Martha Washington, Nathaneal Greene, New Windsor Cantonment, Philipse Manor Hall, Richard Varick, Robert R. Livingston, Saratoga, William Lee