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EVANGELICAL

GUARDIAN & REVIEW.

"PROVE ALL THINGS: HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD."

"TO THE LAW AND TO THE TESTIMONY."

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VOLUME II.

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EVANGELICAL GUARDIAN

AND REVIEW.

VOL. II.

MAY, 1818.

NO. 1.

LIVINGSTON.

BRIEF MEMOIRS OF MRS. MARGARET formance of duty, among all who desire to be "followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises."

feel it to be both a

a dis

THE lives and even the names of many, who occupied important The subject of the present mestations in the Church of God, in moir, in the words of one who our land, and fulfilled the duties was not merely related to her, of those stations with distinguished but knew her well, was reputation and usefulness, are ra- tinguished character, and one of pidly passing into oblivion. We the best of women. She may duty and pri- justly be enrolled among the faithvilege, so far as we shall be ena- ful witnesses for God, and remembled, to furnish our readers, from bered as a signal trophy of the time to time, with biographical power and prevalence of grace." sketches of a few, whom we Mrs. Margaret Livingston was either personally knew, or whose the only child of Colonel Henry memory we have been taught to Beekman, a very respectable and revere from our earliest years. who sustained many public offices opulent gentleman of this state, These sketches will necessarily of trust and honour, and died with be imperfect, from the scantiness of materials to form them; for the an unblemished character, at the advanced age of nearly ninety years.

subjects have left little, some nothing, in writing; of their sorrowing companions, but few are left, and they, in the wane of

years, find it difficult to recollect

more than a few leading facts in their history. On their character, however, they can dilate with sufficient minuteness to enable

us, to whom they have communicated their information, to un

She was born in the year 1724, at Rhinebeck Flatts, in Dutchess

county, the place of her father's

residence. The house, which is still standing, is pleasantly situa ted on Hudson's river, opposite to the Kingston landing-place.

connected in marriage with RoAt an early period* she was bert R. Livingston, Esq. who was also an only child. As his ances

fold the bright examples of their
friends to the encouragement of
faith in the promises of God, and
the instruction for the right per- of her age.