page_title: Philip Livingston
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Livingston / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Christina Ten Broeck (1718-1801) Nehemiah Partridge1720
context_page_description: Philip Livingston was an American merchant and statesman from New York City. He represented New York at the October 1774 First Continental Congress, where he favored imposing economic sanctions upon Great Britain as a way of pressuring the British Parliament to repeal the Intolerable Acts. He was also a delegate to the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1778, and signed the Declaration of Independence.
context_section_description: On April 14, 1740, he married Christina Ten Broeck (1718–1801), daughter of Dirck Ten Broeck (1686–1751) and Margarita Cuyler (1682–1783). Christina was the sister of Albany Mayor Abraham Ten Broeck and the great-granddaughter of Albany Mayor Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck (1638–1717), through her maternal grandfather, Wessel Ten Broeck (1664–1747).  Together, Philip and Christina had nine children:
  Philip Philip Livingston (1741–1787), who married Sara Johnson (1749–1802)
  Dirck "Richard" Livingston (b. 1743), who died unmarried.
  Catherine Livingston (1745–1810), who married Stephen van Rensselaer II (1742–1769) in 1764. After his death, she married Eilardus Westerlo (1738–1790) in 1775.
  Margaret Livingston (1747–1830), who married Dr. Thomas Jones (1733–1794) of New York.
  Peter Van Brugh Livingston (b. 1751), who died unmarried.
  Sarah Livingston (1752–1814), who married Rev. John Henry Livingston (1746–1825), her second cousin.
  John Abraham Livingston (1754-1782), who served as Commissary to the American Army during the Revolutionary War and who died unmarried in Charleston, South Carolina.
  Alida Livingston (b. 1757), who also died unmarried.
  Henry Philip Livingston (b. 1760), a Captain in Gen. Washington's Life Guard, who died unmarried.
  Livingston, who suffered from dropsy, died suddenly while attending the sixth session of Congress in York, Pennsylvania, and is buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery there.  Livingston was a Presbyterian, and a Mason.  When Livingston died, his estate was insufficient to meet his debts, and his executors renounced the administration of the estate.  On February 25, 1785, the New York Legislature passed an act, entitled An Act for vesting the Estate of Philip Livingston, late of the City of New-York, Esquire, deceased, in Trustees for the Payment of his Debts, and other Purposes therein mentioned, which named his son and heir, Philip Philip Livingston, Isaac Roosevelt (1726–1794), and Robert C. Livingston (1742–1794), his nephew who was a son of Robert Livingston, 3rd Lord of the Manor.  As the newly named trustees, they were responsible for administering Livingston’s "property, pay all debts, and discharge the pecuniary legacies."  After his son's death in 1788, Rev. John Henry Livingston, Thomas Jones, both his sons-in-law, Henry Brockholst Livingston, his nephew, and Alexander Hamilton were appointed the executors of his will.
caption: Christina Ten Broeck