The old merchants of New York City / by Walter Barrett.

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He was appointed a Delegate to Congress by the State
Legislature, October 3d, 1777. He took his seat in
May, 1778.
He died the next month, June 12th, 1778, at York,
Pennsylvania, and never lived to see his country achieve
the freedom he had worked so long to obtain. Not long
previous to his decease he had sold a part of his property to sustain the public credit, thereby literally fulfilling
the promise he made when he signed the Declaration of
Independence, to defend his country with his life and
honor.
It is curious to see what descendants this animated hero left. He married a Miss Ten Brock of Albany.
He left several sons and daughters; died unmarried.
His oldest son, Phillip P., removed to Jamaica, in the
West Indies, where lie married. His eldest son, Philip
H., born in 1769, in Jamaica, came back to this country and married a Miss Livingston. He died at Red
Hook, in 1831. His brother Edward died at Albany,
in 1840. He left sons, Philip H., John L., and Edward.
The daughters of this stock married Van Rensaeller,
Jones, Livingston, Greenly, Saunders, and McCombs.
Philip Livingston was one of the noble old merchants
that in 1770 subscribed their money for the purpose of
erecting and establishing in the city a public hospital.
The idea was started by Doctor Samuel Bard, in an address delivered in Kings College, in May, 1769. Sir
Henry Moore, the Governor, set on foot a subscription.
In 1771 the charter was granted, and among the names
of the merchants named as incorporators I recognize
Phillip Livingston, Hugh Wallace, Henry White, Isaac
Low, Joshua Delaplaine, Samuel Broome, Lewis Pintard, Peter Geolet, Theophylicht Bache, John Alsop,
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