Clermont State Historic Site
Pursuing the Livingston Legacy at Clermont, in the Hudson River Valley, and Beyond
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The Strange Case of Trevor McVitty
Alright true crime fans, deep from the annals of the extended Livingston family, we have one for you to puzzle over. Reginald (Rex) Leopold Moore McVitty, born in August of 1899 in Bantry, married Honoria Livingston of Clermont. His parent were Rev. William Presley McVitty, a methodist minister who seems to have spent quite…
Forced To Serve
The system of slavery was so deeply ingrained in colonial American culture that when white officers joined the Continental Army they brought along a valet. This was a delicate way of saying that they were bringing an enslaved man to war, for no pay, to take care of them and sometimes even put them in…
Kilsby: An Enslaved Man Who Set Himself Free
We don’t know how many people the Livingstons enslaved at Clermont. We will probably never know. We have snapshots of certain times, wills, census records, doctors’ visits but these don’t tell us about the people who were here in between those times. People who were forced to be here in between the snapshots, so it…
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