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John Henry Livingston
Biography
Rev. Dr. John Henry Livingston (1746-1825) was a New York City preacher and theologian. He graduated from Yale College in 1762 and attended the University of Utrecht, receiving the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1770. At that time, he became the pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in the City of New York. He left New York City during the American Revolution, but returned in 1783 and went on to become the President of Queens College, now Rutgers University. He was also a professor of didactic theology at the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America from 1784 to 1825.
Local Note
John Henry Livingston was trustee of the New York Society Library from 1798 to 1799.
Mentioned
- Keep, Austin Baxter. History of the New York Society Library, pp. 190, 237
- King, Marion. Books and People: Five Decades of New York's Oldest Library, pp.
- Monaghan, Frank. This was New York, the Nation's Capital in 1789, pp.
| Date Out | Text | Vol | Size | Date In | Rep | Fines | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/05/1789 | Modern Traveller | 1 | 12mo. | 08/12/1789 | son | 007 | |
| 08/12/1789 | Modern Traveller | 2 | 12mo. | 08/21/1789 | son | 008 | |
| 09/07/1789 | Letters from a lady | 12mo. | 09/14/1789 | son | 014 | ||
| 09/14/1789 | Goldsmith's Ani'd. Nature | 3 | 12mo. | 09/18/1789 | 017 | ||
| 09/18/1789 | Goldsmith's An. Nature | 4 | 12mo. | 09/21/1789 | 018 | ||
| 09/21/1789 | Anson's Voyage | 4to. | 09/25/1789 | 018 | |||
| 09/25/1789 | Hawksworth's Voyage | 2 | 8vo. | 10/07/1789 | 019 | ||
| 10/23/1789 | Voyage to America | 8vo. | 10/30/1789 | 028 | |||
| 10/30/1789 | Savary's Letter | 1&2 | 8vo. | 11/23/1789 | 030 | ||
| 10/30/1789 | Voyage to America | 2 | 8vo. | 11/04/1789 | 030 | ||
| 11/04/1789 | R. Random | 1 | 12mo. | 11/05/1789 | 031 | ||
| 11/09/1789 | Betsy Thoughtless | 1 | 12mo. | 11/11/1789 | 032 | ||
| 11/23/1789 | Sheridan On Education | 8vo. | 12/14/1789 | 140 | |||
| 01/04/1790 | Sheridan Art of Reading | 8vo. | 01/22/1790 | 140 | |||
| 01/22/1790 | " con | 02/08/1790 | 140 | ||||
| 02/08/1790 | " con | 8vo. | 02/17/1790 | 140 | |||
| 02/17/1790 | Ossians Poems | 1 | 8vo. | 02/22/1790 | 140 | ||
| 02/22/1790 | Beauties of hist | 2 | 12mo. | 03/08/1790 | 140 | ||
| 03/08/1790 | " con | 2 | 12mo. | 03/17/1790 | 140 | ||
| 03/17/1790 | " con | 2 | 12mo. | 03/29/1790 | 140 | ||
| 03/29/1790 | " | 2 | 12mo. | 04/12/1790 | 140 | ||
| 04/12/1790 | Priestly on education | 8vo. | 04/28/1790 | 140 | |||
| 04/28/1790 | " con | 8vo. | 05/09/1790 | 140 | |||
| 05/22/1790 | Review of Nations | 1 | 8vo. | 06/05/1790 | 140 | ||
| 07/03/1790 | Burrishs batavia Illustrata | 1 | 8vo. | 07/17/1790 | 140 | ||
| 12/26/1790 | Watts Logic | 01/16/1791 | 140 | ||||
| 02/14/1791 | Bruce | 5 | 02/21/1791 | 140 | |||
| 02/21/1791 | Lavater | 3 | 03/17/1791 | 140 | |||
| 03/22/1791 | Lelands Demosthenes | 1 | 04/30/1791 | 3s/2p | 140 | ||
| 04/30/1791 | " | 2 | 06/24/1791 | 5s/8p | 140 | ||
| 04/30/1791 | Task | 05/10/1791 | 140 | ||||
| 06/24/1791 | Saml. Johnsons Works | Folio. | 09/23/1791 | 6s/4p | 140 | ||
| 09/19/1791 | Calmets Dictionary | 1 | 09/22/1791 | 140 | |||
| 09/26/1791 | " | 3 | 10/06/1791 | 140 | |||
| 10/20/1791 | Newton on Prophecies | 1 | 11/16/1791 | 1p | 140 | ||
| 11/16/1791 | " | 1 | 12/08/1791 | 140 | |||
| 12/08/1791 | " | 2 | 12/20/1791 | 140 | |||
| 12/20/1791 | " con | 2 | 01/17/1792 | 1s/2p | 140 | ||
| 01/31/1792 | Beauties Essay | 2 | 02/01/1792 | 140 | |||
| 04/16/1792 | Classics | 2 | 05/01/1792 | 140 |
