. The great American book of biography . JOHN JAY, PIRSX CHISK JUSTICE OK THE UNITED STATES SUPREME HEN, in 1685, Louis XIV. of France revoked theEdict of Nantes, that famous act of tolerationunder which French Protestants had for so longlived and flourished, his bigotry set in motionforces whose efforts reached every nation of theearth, and turned the current of history forcenturies after. Among the multitudes of indus-trious and ingenious men who were then drivenfrom France to other lands was one Pierre Jay, amerchant of La Rochelle, who fled to England to o escape persecution. His s
. The great American book of biography . JOHN JAY, PIRSX CHISK JUSTICE OK THE UNITED STATES SUPREME HEN, in 1685, Louis XIV. of France revoked theEdict of Nantes, that famous act of tolerationunder which French Protestants had for so longlived and flourished, his bigotry set in motionforces whose efforts reached every nation of theearth, and turned the current of history forcenturies after. Among the multitudes of indus-trious and ingenious men who were then drivenfrom France to other lands was one Pierre Jay, amerchant of La Rochelle, who fled to England to o escape persecution. His son, a West India merchant, came to New York, and married the daughter of one of the early Dutch settlers ; and thus their distinguished son, John Jay, one of the founders of our government, and its first chief justice, was remarkable among early American statesmen as having not a drop of English blood in his veins. There is little in the history of Jay that is picturesque or striking; butthere are few among the worthies of the Revolution to whom posterity owes agreater debt. Life, says the poet Lowell,
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