Provenance:

By descent in the Ridley/Sedgwick Family to the present owner.

Note:

Susannah was born in Albany, New York to patriots William (1723-1790) and Susannah French Livingston(1723-1789). The Livingstons were among the wealthiest and most influential families in Colonial America. See Lots 87 and 89.

Susannah, known as Susan, married John Cleves Symmes (1742-1814) in 1794. Symmes served as a Colonel of the 3rd Regiment of the Sussex County militia during the Revolutionary War and later represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress. He acquired huge tracks of land in Ohio and served there as a Territorial Judge from 1788 until statehood in 1803.

Publication History:

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