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which of course continues to be the title of some of that 
name to the present day. That branch of the Livingston 
family which came over to this country emigrated about 150 
years ago. 
On their first arrival there were but two heads of families, 
an uncle and a nephew, from whom have sprung the very 
numerous descendants of the name of Livingston, who are 
scattered over the United States. The same public and 
private virtue which distinguished them in Scotland, follow¬ 
ed them to this country. Perhaps there cannot be named a 
family in America, which has done greater honor to their 
country than this. To speak of the living worthies, who 
now support the ancient honor, dignity and virtue of the 
name of Livingston, and add to their country’s glory, would 
be to sacrifice to heroes before the sun were set, and would 
offend as much against true delicacy, as against classical 
propriety—to pass by any notice of these therefore, and to 
turn our attention to those who now sleep in the dust, we 
may reckon of this name, some of the greatest and most dis¬ 
tinguished men, which our country has yet produced. In 
Governor Livingston of New* Jersey alone, were combined 
the poet, the lawyer, the theologian, the patriot, and the 
Christian ; and in him alone might be found a proof, if all 
others were wanting, that the Atlantic wave does not wash 
away every particle of genius which distinguished our fore¬ 
fathers ; that America is not the Boeotia of the earth ; that 
they who pass from the Eastern to the Western Continent 
do not leave all wisdom behind them ; that wisdom, talents 
and learning are not to be defined by latitudes and longi¬ 
tudes ; that whatever may be said to the contrary by English 
wits or French theorists, 
■ c Cesium , non animum, mutant , qui trans mare , currunt 
After this notice of a name , the pride and the boast of 
America, and of this state, you will follow me, while I speak 
of one, who has added new and distinguished honors to that 
name. Robert, the son of Robert Livingston, is numbered 
with his fathers ; and nothing remains to us, but the memo- 
