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Line 3: ==Early life== Gilbert was one of the thirteen children of Henry Livingston, Sr. and Susanna Conklin Livingston. Gilbert's father, Henry, was [[Clerk (municipal official)\|County Clerk]] in Dutchess County, as well as a legislator in [[Province of New York\|colonial New York]]. They ~~were a middle-class family, and~~ were members of a less affluent branch of the prominent [[Livingston family]] of New York.<ref name=Wakelyn>Wakelyn, Jon. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=wpXzqmjp5IYC&pg=PA121 Birth of the Bill of Rights: Biographies]'', pp. 121-123 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004).</ref> One of Gilbert's great-grandfathers was the wealthy New York colonial official [[Robert Livingston the Elder]], and one of Gilbert's siblings was the poet [[Henry Livingston, Jr.]]<ref name="Livingston1910"/> Gilbert was born and grew up near [[Poughkeepsie, New York\|Poughkeepsie]], and went to school in [[Fishkill, New York]]. He then went to King's College, which was the colonial-era name of [[Columbia College (New York)]], but left early (in 1757) due to a [[smallpox]] epidemic. Official records indicate that he was matriculated with the class of 1760.<ref>{{Cite book\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8BBAAAAYAAJ&q=livingston&pg=PA1-IA1\|title=Catalogue of Matriculants who Have Not Graduated, 1758-1897\|publisher=Columbia University\|year=1897\|location=New York City\|pages=5\|language=en}}</ref>

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