Maturin Livingston (1769-1847)
Judge of Dutchess County & Recorder of the City of New York City
He graduated with the highest honors from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1786. He studied law and was admitted as an Attorney in New York. He was one of the members from New York to the Constitutional Convention in October, 1801. Three years later (1804), he was appointed Recorder of the City of New York and in 1823 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Dutchess County, being the first appointment for the county under the Constitution of 1821. In 1798, he married Margaret, the only child and sole heiress of Gen. Morgan Lewis, 4th Governor of New York. They were the parents of twelve children (listed), all of whom except one lived to adulthood and had children. He had an estimated fortune of $100,000 in 1842 and died at the home of his son-in-law, Major Joseph Delafield, in New York City.
