Talk:Henry Beekman Livingston

In Dec 2008 this page was merged with Henry Livingston Jr. page in November of 2008 (a month ago) a new Henry Livingston Jr. page was added, and I suspect that was when the inappropriate "errors in this page" section was also added here.

This New York Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/001027friday.html Does refer to the suggested author of the poem to be Henry Livingston, Jr...suggesting his father's name was Henry Livingston, Sr...suggesting the "errors in this page" section is correct.

As such all the information relating to the Clement Clarke Moore dispute should be removed from this page.

Gavroche42 (talk) 11:42, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Moved from article
This webpage is confusing two different people. Henry Beekman Livingston and Henry Livingston, Jr. were cousins, and were both in the regiment commanded by Major General Richard Montgomery, Henry Beekman Livingston's sister's husband.

Robert Livingston, 1st Lord + Alida Schuyler => Robert Livingston, Jr. + Margaret Howarden => Robert R. Livingston + Margaret Beekman => Henry Beekman Livingston + Ann Horn (Nancy) Shippen (Margaret Beekman is the daughter of Colonel Henry Beekman (the brother of Cornelia Beekman) and Janet Livingston (the daughter of Robert Livingston, the nephew)

Robert Livingston, 1st Lord + Alida Schuyler => Gilbert Livingston + Cornelia Beekman => Dr. Henry Livingston, Sr. + Susanna Storm Conklin => Major Henry Livingston, Jr. + Sarah Welles + Jane Patterson

According to records in NY State Library http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc19687.htm Henry Beekman Livingston correct birth and death years are 1750-1831.

According to the Library of Congress journals, Henry Beekman Livingston was one of 16 recipients of the Elegant Small Sword presented by the Continental Congress for meritorious actions during the Revolutionary War... in testimony of his service to his country, Journal of the Continental Congress Volume III, p-424. This sword has not been found.

Battle of Monmouth Eyewitness accounts in letters written by Henry Beekman Livingston (a colonel in the Continental Army who commanded a battalion which saw considerable action at Monmouth and sustained heavy losses) and by William Watson (a captain in Colonel Beekman's Battalion). An additional firsthand account, contained in a letter in the John Neilson papers, is that written by John Taylor, a member of Neilson's battalion. Also of interest are two letters by General Charles Lee in which he defends his conduct at the battle (to Major [George Rogers?] Clark, 3 Sept. 1778) and in which he requests a Congressional investigation of the court martial which found him guilty of treasonous conduct (to Henry Laurens, 29 Oct. 1778). http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/manuscripts/manuscript_rev_war.shtml