Philip Livingston

Philip Livingston was the second Lord of Livingston Manor known as one of New York's most prominent slave traders and generous donator to Yale College. Besides being a landholder and slave trader, he also served as New York city alderman, a representative at the Colonial Convention at Albany in 1754 and a delegate to the Continental Congress. He laid the groundwork for the success of the next generations of the family by sending the sons away for training and his daughters to be married into the most advantaged families in the region. Numerous locations in the Hudson Valley still bear his family name.