Nova Scotia/PEI Livingstone Research

Livingstone_PEI · Post by **Livingstone_PEI** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:59 pm

When information like this crops up from time to time it can have a real ripple affect. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes and I'm hoping the significance is helpful in tracing Livingston roots. The same thing happened when I found that map showing Colin Livingstone on PEI in 1845. I highly doubt he was in Cape Breton at the same time, so the entry in the census I had gotten from the Beaton Institute can't be true. That entry must have been an Allan Livingston, because it looks like Allan too. I'm still trying to sort out the significance of that too. The map may have been from 1845 to a future time too, so all it did was give me more questions.

I'm not sure if it mentions that her son is living in Massachusetts. I think it did, but I didn't know if it was important or not.

Barry

Livingstone_PEI · Post by **Livingstone_PEI** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:02 pm

The obituary posted in an Island newspaper for his daughter Sarah, stating that Captain Malcolm Livingston residing in Salem, Massachusetts from Cardigan River should be enough to put all the pieces together.

Canadian Livingstone · Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:04 pm

Hi Barry,

You notice that the birth date of 1814 given in the lodge records for Malcolm is quite a bit different from the approximate birth date we can gather from the information on Malcolm that Jewel located in the Maine Census records. I am confident she found the right Malcolm but that the information was recorded wrong for some reason. Not the first time I have come across that in the Census. Sometimes people wanted to appear younger than they actually were.

regards,

Donald

Livingstone_PEI · Post by **Livingstone_PEI** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:07 pm

Here is the other file I was trying to attach. I wish people would write clearer....sure would make our job easier.

Livingstone_PEI · Post by **Livingstone_PEI** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:15 pm

In the documemt where John Livingston transfer his property to John? Cameron. Where it says his name at the top there is a word that starts with "M". What do you make of that word? Is it a first name and he put his full name? It looks like it says "Mail.".

Livingstone_PEI · Post by **Livingstone_PEI** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:38 pm

Hi Donald

According to the 1850 US Census they had a 4 yearold son, John M. Livingston living with them in Salem. It shows Sarah as being two years old in the census. Sarah must have died shortly after.

Barry

Canadian Livingstone · Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:46 pm

Hi Barry,

Cant make it out. I see Edmund Fanning. He was theLieutenant governor at the time in the late 1700's wasnt he? This is the transfer to Cameron document is it ? A Lieutenant Governor is usually mentioned in land grant related documents in Upper Canada as well.

regards,

Donald

Roberta Ann · Post by **Roberta Ann** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:20 am

Hi Barry;

Wasn't John Livingston associated with Govenor Fanning in Providence, Rhode Island? I don't see an "M" or a date. Anyway, I thought the transfer to John Cameron took place in 1806.
Was this document drawn-up in 1803; I don't see a date.
Good work, again, Barry.

Regards;

Roberta

Canadian Livingstone · Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:10 am

Hi Roberta,

Governor Fanning was involved in many of the land transactions one way or another as Lieutenant Governor from the late 1700's. He may have been the grantor of land and John Livingston the grantee in 1803. He mentioned I think in any event. Regarding Barry's question about whether it was a military grant there does not seem to be any obvious indication of the 1803 grant being a military grant or that John Livingston who received the 1803 grant having been a soldier. I am however hoping that a PEI archivist can examine the document and confirm that there no indication that it is a military grant. As Barry as stated John Livingston is recorded as farmer I assume he probably is not receiving a military grant in 1803 as in the case of Upper Canada land grant, information regarding the land grant being a military grant is clearly stated on the documents I have found. Dont know about PEI grants I must admit. I have alot of experience with Upper Canada petitions and land records. They are all well indexed and organized and easy to locate actually but I am not familiar with how the PEI land petitions and subsequent land grant documents were organized by the Crown. I thought it might be somewhat similar.

I have found evidence of highland Livingstones serving in the British Army little more than a decades after having served in a Jacobite Army of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the King of Great Britain. Highland Livingstons in desperate plight found an escape from misery in joining the British Army in the late 1700's and they continued serve during the Napoleonic Wars. At least one Napoleonic War veteran Angus Livingstone settled in Boularderie, Cape Breton following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, but some of the other highland Livingstons that settled in Cape Breton and PEI could conceivalbly have served at one time or another in the military. So far Angus is the only one I know of.

regards,

Donald

Livingstone_PEI · Post by **Livingstone_PEI** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:41 am

The one I was referring to was this one.

Re: Nova Scotia/PEI Livingstone Research
by Livingstone_PEI » Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:23 pm

Just go back up through my posts. The one you were looking at Donald was the one from 1803 and I only attached the first page. The rest of the pages are just Rhetoric that is in all the land conveyance documents.

Barry