197 51 Ladies of both Societies, by Pomfret, cont. in 1st Eccl. Soc., by G. B. Mathewson, through D. C. Robinson, Tr. &c. do. 25 00 53 80 18 61 Hartford, Legacy of Miss Martha Rogers, dec'd, by Seth Terry, Esq. Executor Do. of Mary Y. Hempstead, dec'd, by Rev. J. A. Hempstead, adm'r Hebron, coll. in 1st Soc. (in part) by Rev. A. Nash 6 54 Do. do. (balance) by Mr. Selden 6 75-13 29 Hamden Plains, coll. by A. Townsend, Jr., Tr. &c. Lyme, coll. in 1st Cong. Soc. by Rev. J. Emerson, ag't by Lebanon, do. do. do. do. (Goshen Soc.) by Manchester, do. 108 70, and from Horace Pitkin, Esq. 100, to const. himself an H. M. by Rev. Mr. Nash Milford, 1st Cong. Soc., by A. Townsend, Jr., Tr. &c. Middletown, coll. in 1st Cong. Soc., by Rev. J. Emerson, Ag't Norwich, Ladies' Assoc. in 1st Soc., by C. Coit, Tr. &c. Samuel Pitts Charles Rogers, in part Carmine St. Ch., G. Manning Tracy, Esq. Central Presbyterian Ch., Dr. J. W. Weed Fourth Free Ch., Subscriptions, collected in part by Wm. B. Humbert Mercer St. Church, Rev. Prof. Cyrus Mason Mrs. J. L. Mason Anson G. Phelps Joseph F. Joy 10 00 25 00 5 00-45 00 18 00 25 00 150 00 3 75 30 00 10 00 14 02 250 00 15 53 John L. Mason, Esq. 50 00 5 00 208 70 50 00 22 50 Najah Taylor 20 00-385 00 Murray St. Ch., Lester West 60 00 33 50 Second Avenue Ch., Wm. E. Dodge Spring St. Ch., Matilda Sammins 5 00 100 00 Thomas Page 48 00 Alfred A. Starr Tenth Presbyterian Church, Coll. in part by Rev. Mr. Spees Wallingford, Ct., Legacy from Miss Eliza M. Hull, by John M. Hull 1 00 2.00 100-400 5 50-817 50 50 00 $1,852 70 UTICA AGENCY. Do. 41 77 Rocky Hill, cont. by Rev. J. Emerson, Ag't 14.00 27 40 Vernon, coll. in 1st Soc. through the agency of Rev. A. Nash Holland Patent 7, Mrs. G. of H. P. 2 9.00 200 06 Homer, (balance) 10, Lebanon 10 20 00 Wethersfield, coll. by Dea. Stillman, through the agency of Rev. J. Emerson Lenor, balance of Life Membership 35 00 Manlius 32 57, Marshall 6, Madison 16 54 57 127 87 Worthington, cont. by Rev. Mr. Riddel Marcellus 15 63, New Hartford 30 94 46 57 31 65 Waterbury, do. in Cong. Soc. by A. Townsend, Jr. Oneida Association 22 21, Ŏtego 5 27 21 Tr. &c. 20 17 Oriskany Falls 5 19, Otisco 50 55 19 Preble 10 25, Pompey 16 26 25 $1,958 99 Rome, Mrs. Dr. Miller 1, Sauquoit 14 64 15 64 Smithfield 20, Utica, Ist Pres. Cong. 77 16 97 16 Vernon 17 02, Vernon Centre 1 18 02 Vermont, a lady .25, Wampsville 12 40 12 65 CENTRAL AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY. [Charles Starr, Esq. N. Y. Tr.] Barbadoes, W. Indies, Wm. R. Hayes, by Amos Townsend, New Haven, Brooklyn, L. I., 1st Church, J. C. Meecker F. A. Burrell Winfield 5 54, Windsor 10 15 54 Walton, Columbia Society 12.00 (Collected by Rev. D. Clark, Jr. Sec.) 10 00 (Collected by J. W. Doolittle, Esq. Tr.) 10 00 $628 92 J. P. Dayton Second Church, Am't of collection 10 00-30 00 Greenville, N. Y., Pres. Ch. coll. in part Cash Champlain Benev. Soc., by R. D. Silliman Darien, Ct., Gilbert G. Waterbury, in addition to $16 formerly contributed, to const. Rev. Ulric Maynard of Upsonville, Susquehannah co. Pa. an H. M. Madison, N. J., Pres. Ch. coll. Marlborough, N. Y., Pres. Ch. coll. in part Mrs. Charlotte B. Arden Mrs. Cobb Dr. Condit Silas Condit Mr. Gensin Mrs. C. Jones S. Johnson Jabez Mills Stephen Pierson Mrs. E Russell R. M. Stiles J. C. Whitehead N. J. Wood 100 75-130 75 20 00 1 00 24 00 Bigflats 26, Bristol 12 26 38 26 28 78 Canandaigua 99 27, Clyde 15 75 115 02 42.00 Elmira 110, East Bloomfield 34 28 144 28 113 60 16 90 Hammondsport 65, Hopewell 14 50 79 50 50 00 Livonia 64, Leroy 37 57 101 57 1 00 Junius 16, Moscow 6 65 22 65 5 00 Palmyra 69 56, Prattsburgh 100 169 56 5 00 Poultney 8, Penn Yan 178 186 00 9 00 Richmond 37, Rushville 68 105 00 REV. JOHN H. LIVINGSTON, D. D. President of Rutgers College. Engraved for the American Quarterly Register. AMERICAN QUARTERLY REGISTER. VOL. XII. FEBRUARY, 1840. No. 3. MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOHN H. LIVINGSTON, D. D. THE family, from which Dr. Livingston was descended, is honorably noticed in Scottish history. One of his ancestors was Lord Livingston, afterwards the Earl of Linlithgow, who, with Lord Erskine, had the care of Mary Queen of Scots, in the castle of Dumbarton, in 1547. His daughter, Mary Livingston, was one of the four Maries that accompanied the queen to France as her companions. The great-great-grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was the eminently pious minister of the gospel, and the common ancestor of the Livingston family in this country, the Rev. John Livingston. He was born in Monyabroch, Stirlingshire, Scotland, June 21, 1603. He preached his first sermon, January 2, 1625. He delivered a discourse at the kirk of Shotts, June 20, 1630, which was followed by a remarkable display of divine influence. About five hundred persons, as it was thought, there experienced a saving moral change. He was soon after settled over a church in Killinchie, Ireland. Here an extraordinary manifestation of divine power attended his preaching. By the instrumentality of two sermons, as it was supposed, not less than fifteen hundred persons were either renewed in holiness, or were greatly quickened in the Christian life. Mr. Livingston now became an object of bitter persecution; was proceeded against for non-conformity, and actually deposed. He now determined to emigrate to New England. The vessel, however, in which he had set sail, was driven back by adverse winds, and the design was abandoned. In 1638, he was settled in Stranrawer, in Scotland. While here, he was sent several times by the General Assembly, on a missionary tour to some vacant parishes in Ireland. These labors were very arduous, and were greatly useful. In 1648, he removed to Ancrum, in Tiviotdale. From this place, through the intolerant spirit of the times, he was compelled to flee. He went first to England. In 1663, he fled to Holland, and settled in Rotterdam. His wife and two children followed him, while five children remained in Scotland. He died August 9, 1672, aged 69. Robert Livingston, the son of John, and the great-grandfather of the subject of this memoir, came over to America, it is believed, soon after his father's death. The patent for the manor of Livingston was granted in 1689. Smith, in his History of New York, states, that he was a principal agent for the convention, which met in Albany in 1689, and that he became peculiarly obnoxious to his adversaries, because he was a “man of sense and resolution." He was connected in marriage with the Schuyler |