. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . te Senate during the early months of 1777. At thetime of the British occupation the interior was burnt but thewalls were left standing. The building is now the property NEW YORK TO ALBANY 39 of the state and is used as a colonial museum. The presentCourt House, built in 1818, stands on the site of the old CourtHouse, where New Yorks first governor, George Clinton,was inaugurated, and in which Chi
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . te Senate during the early months of 1777. At thetime of the British occupation the interior was burnt but thewalls were left standing. The building is now the property NEW YORK TO ALBANY 39 of the state and is used as a colonial museum. The presentCourt House, built in 1818, stands on the site of the old CourtHouse, where New Yorks first governor, George Clinton,was inaugurated, and in which Chief Justice John Jay heldthe first term of the N. Y. Supreme Court in Sept. 1777. John Jay (1745-1829), son of Peter Jay, a successful N. Y. mer-chant, had a notable career. He was Chairman of the Commissionwhich drafted the N. Y. State Constitution in 1777. In the sameyear he was made Chief Justice of the State. In negotiating peacewith Great Britain (1783) he acted with Benjamin Franklin, JohnAdams, Jefferson and Henry Laurens, and he is credited with havingbeen influential in obtaining favorable terms for the former 1789 Washington appointed him chief justice of the U. S. Supreme. The Senate House (1676), Kingston, N. in 1676 as a private residence, the Senate House was one of thefew buildings left standing when the British sacked the town of Kingston in October,1777. It had been the meeting place of the first State Senate in the earlier part of thatyear. The house is now maintained as a colonial museum. Court, in which capacity he served for six years. In the meantime,1794, he negotiated the famous Jay Treaty with Great Britain, whichaverted a dangerous crisis in the relations between the two countries,and settled such questions as the withdrawal of British troops fromthe northwestern frontier, compensation for the seizure of American 40 THE GREATEST HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD vessels during the Franco-British war of 1793, and the refusal of theBritish up to
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