. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . tion of the colonies, and was also a mem-ber of the committee appointed to draw up and preparethe Declaration of Independence. After the adoption of the Declaration of Independence Other duties of a more active, though not more respon-sible character, engaged Mr. Livingstons attention, as mem-ber of the council of safety, by which body he wascharged with military powers to aid General Schuyler onthe northern and western frontiers, as well as for the pro-tection of th
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . tion of the colonies, and was also a mem-ber of the committee appointed to draw up and preparethe Declaration of Independence. After the adoption of the Declaration of Independence Other duties of a more active, though not more respon-sible character, engaged Mr. Livingstons attention, as mem-ber of the council of safety, by which body he wascharged with military powers to aid General Schuyler onthe northern and western frontiers, as well as for the pro-tection of the Hudson. In 1781, upon the creation of the office by Congress,Mr. Livingston was appointed the first foreign secretary,and Robert Morris the first superintendent of Livingston served as secretary of foreign affairs from1781 to 1783, when he resigned, as he had received theappointment of chancellor of the State of New York. The diplomatic correspondence of the Revolutionary warmay here be referred to as documentary testimony to thecabinet services of Mr. Livingston during the period of hisforeign ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON (THE CHANCELLOR). the colony of New York was changed to a State, andRobert R. Livingston was placed upon the eoumiittee, withJohn Jay, Gouverneur Morris, Charles De Witt, and others,to draft and report the constitution. Robert R. Livingstonintroduced into this instrument the section creating thecouncil of revision, a body composed of the governor,chancellor, and judges of the Supreme Court, which sat torevise all bills about to be passed into laws by the Legisla-ture, and of which he himself became a prominent mem-ber. The court existed till it was abolished by the con-vention of 1821, and its powers lodged solely in the handsof the governor by the constitution of that year. performed the labor of revising the draft of theState constitution of 1777,—not by any means an easy task,but one which required the best talent and
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