. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . ethirty years of age. He was one of the elder brothers of Hon. John was while on his visit to England as aoent for the collee that hereceived the honor of Knighthood. He became involved in a suit inChancery arising out of the collections for the college, but returned toNew York prior to the Eevolution.^ He was the fourth son of Peter Jayand Mary Van Cortlandt (the daughter of Jacobus Van Cortlandt andEve Philipse), and the grandson of Augustus Jay and Ann Maria Bayard(daughter of Balthazar Bayard and Maria Loockermans).
. History of the city of New York: its origin, rise and progress . ethirty years of age. He was one of the elder brothers of Hon. John was while on his visit to England as aoent for the collee that hereceived the honor of Knighthood. He became involved in a suit inChancery arising out of the collections for the college, but returned toNew York prior to the Eevolution.^ He was the fourth son of Peter Jayand Mary Van Cortlandt (the daughter of Jacobus Van Cortlandt andEve Philipse), and the grandson of Augustus Jay and Ann Maria Bayard(daughter of Balthazar Bayard and Maria Loockermans). The Jay familywere among those who were driven from France through the troublesand violences connected with the revocation of the Edict of Jay, the father of Augustus, was a wealthy merchant, owning 1 He died October 20, 1815. THE JAY FAMILY. GOT vessels engaged in Spanish commerce. Upon one of these (laden withiron)- he effected his escape, having found means of withdrawing liisfamily secretly from his house, who, taking with them only a few arti-. Vsn Cortlandt Mansion at Kingsbridge built in 174-8. cles of value, succeeded in reaching England. Augustus was at the timewith one of his fathers ships trading upon the coast of Africa, and re-turned to France without knowing of the troubles and flight of the escaped to America, and took up his abode in New Eochelle; after-wards (in 1697) marrying into the Bayard family as above. He was asuccessful merchant to the end of a long life. He died in New Yorkin 1751. Peter Jay (born in 1704) was sent to England to be educated,and placed in the counting-house of his uncle, Mr. Peloquin of returned to New York, and was married in 1728; he also was amerchant; he declined to participate in the political and other disturb-ances of the colony, and having acquired a competence retired frombusiness before he was forty years old. He settled upon an estate inEye, a few miles from New Eochelle; he had ten childre
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