tance up the Hudson, in the county of Ulster. New-York.

With Sarah, the youngest daughter of this gentleman, Dr. Livingston had previously entered into a matrimonial engagement; and, in the same month, shortly after the settlement of the family in its new place of abode, they were united in the conjugal state. This event proved to the Doctor one of the happiest in his life. Indeed, he could scarcely have formed, in all respects, a more felicitous connexion, for she was a lady of good sense, of a mild and affectionate disposition, of great pru

cils of his state. He assisted in framing a constitution for the state, and, on its adoption, was chosen a senator under it.

"In October, 1777, he was re-elected to Congress under the new Constitution, and took his seat in Congress in May, 1778, one of the most critical and gloomy periods of the Revolution, and incessantly devoted his whole faculties to the salvation of his country. He expired at York, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of June, 1778.

"A short time previous to his demise, he sold a portion of his property to sustain the public credit; and though he sensibly felt the approach of death, owing to the nature of his complaint, he did not hesitate to relinquish the endearments of a beloved family, and devote the last remnant of his illustrious life to the service of his country, then enveloped in the thickest gloom.”

dence, of sincere and ardent piety; and he thus became allied to other families among the most respectable in the colony.*

Dr. Livingston was himself a sincere and decided friend to the American cause.-It was the earnest wish of his heart that the war begun, might result in the establishment of his country's independence, and, like a number of patriotic and pious ministers of the city, offered his fervent prayers to God for its ultimate success; † but

*The eldest daughter of Philip married the late Stephen Van Rensselaer, Esq., of Albany, and was the mother of the gentleman now living, of the same name and place, whose patriotic services, amiable deportment, and princely liberality, in the promotion of science and religion, are well known. The second married Dr. Thomas Jones, a learned and respectable physician of New-York, and was the mother of Mrs. Clinton, the widow of the late much lamented Governor of the state of New-York.

†The Rev. Dr. Miller, in his Memoirs of the late venerable Dr. Rodgers,says "For a considerable time before this crisis arrived, Dr. Rodgers and several other clergymen of the city, among whom were Dr. Mason and Dr. Laidlie, had been in the habit of holding weekly meetings, for cultivating friendship with each other, and for mutual instruction. Toward the close of 1775, the gentlemen concerned, agreed to suspend their usual exercises at these meetings, and to employ the time, when they came together, in special prayer for a blessing upon the country, in the struggle on which it was entering. This meeting, thus conducted, was

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neither political nor religious principle made it his duty to remain in New-York, when that would be only an unnecessary exposure of his life, and the greater part of the people of his charge had fled into different parts of the country, to places of more safety. He, therefore, resided in the excellent family with which he had recently become connected, and visited the city for the performance of ministerial duty, as often as it was practicable, and as long as it was considered proper to continue service there. Until, in fact, the British forces took possession of New-York, in Sep. 1776, he and Dr. Laidlie, who had also removed to Red Hook, alternately came down, unless providentially prevented, and preached to the remnant of their flock; and in the month of June preceding, he administered the Lord's Supper in the Middle Church, which ordinance was not dispensed again in any of the Dutch Churches in the city, during the continuance of the war.

kept up, until the ministers composing it, and the great mass of the people under their pastoral care retired from the city, previous to the arrival of the British forces."

Dr. Livingston was, no doubt, one of this clerical association; and it is probable, that as often as he was in the city, after his marriage, when they convened, he united with them in supplications to Heaven for a happy prosecution and termination of the conflict.

While the Doctor was staying at Kingston, he preached once every Sabbath, if in the place, in the Dutch language; but, as the congregation there was furnished with a pastor (the Rev. Mr. Doll,) when he found that he would be probably for some time, excluded from New-York, he became anxious for another situation, where his ministrations might be more needed, or would promise more usefulness; and about the time that his intercourse with the city ceased, it pleased the Lord to provide him just such an one as he had desired,

In the autumn of 1776, the Consistory of the Dutch Church in Albany, invited him to spend the period of his exile, or as much of it as suited his convenience, in labours among them. This invitation he promptly accepted, and with Mrs. Livingston and his infant son, went there in the month of November,

Whether anterior to this removal, public wor ship in that Church had been regularly, or at all performed, in English, is not known; but it was understood that during his residence in the place, he would be expected to preach in this language,

*Col. H. A. Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, the only child of Dr. Livingston.

whilst the esteemed pastor would take the Dutch service, and for nearly three years he laboured zealously, in conjunction with the pious and excellent Westerlo, to build up the Church in faith and godliness.

After he had been here about a year, he made a visit with his little family to his father at Poughkeepsie, which, for a short season, was attended with imminent danger, and led to the loss of his journal, containing a number of anecdotes, and relating his religious experience from the day of his embarkation for Holland.

It was in the month of October, 1777,when Gen. Vaughan, with a small fleet, sailed up the Hudson, and burnt Kingston. The enemy, as they passed the residence of his father, which stood upon the margin of the river, fired into it, and in the perturbation and alarm of the moment, produced by this wanton attack, while making some hasty preparations to leave the house, he burnt that manuscript, which he happened to have with him, under the apprehension that, if it were not destroyed, it might fall into improper hands. The loss was a serious one: it was to him an invaluable treasure; and had it been preserved, much interesting and important matter could, no doubt, have been