RC (DLC); 2 p.; endorsed by TJ as received 6 July 1793 and so recorded in SJL.

Muscoe Livingston was a sea captain who had served briefly as a second lieutenant in the Continental navy and resided at various times in London, Jamaica, Norfolk, and Essex County, Virginia, where he lived at this time and where his estate was probated in 1798 (WMQ, description begins William and Mary Quarterly, 1892- description ends 1st ser., xiii [1905], 262, 263; Franklin, Papers, description begins Leonard W. Labaree, William B. Willcox, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, New Haven, 1959-, 30 vols. description ends xxvi, 256; Morris, Papers, description begins E. James Ferguson, John Catanzariti, Elizabeth M. Nuxoll, Mary A. Y. Gallagher, and others, eds., The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784, Pittsburgh, 1973–99, 9 vols. description ends vi, 23; Syrett, Hamilton, description begins Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, New York, 1961–87, 27 vols. description ends xv, 366).