Doctors gave Livingston no hope of recovery and he would say his final farewell to family in anticipation of death. At the age of sixty-two on June 12, 1778 Philip Livingston passed away. He is buried in York, [[Pennsylvania]].
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Doctors realized that Livingston suffered from dropsy(heart failure)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=o9AwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA323 Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania and York County in the Revolution]</ref> gave Livingston no hope of recovery and he would say his final farewell to family in anticipation of death. At the age of sixty-two on June 12, 1778 Philip Livingston passed away. He is buried in York, [[Pennsylvania]].