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j N memory PET]'. R JAY MUNEO 



who died 

 SIR JAMES J A T, Ks't. 22 Sept. , 1S33, 



born 27 October, 1732, aged 66 years, 



died 20 October, 1815. 8 months and 12 days. 



In memory of 



JUDITH, 



relict of John W. Watkins, Esq. , 



and last surviving daughter of 



William Livingston, 



Governor of New Jersey, 



who departed this life 



July 7th, 1843, 



in the 83d year of her age. 



Anchored safe, the weary soul 



Shall find eternal rest, 

 Nor storms shall beat nor billows roll 



Across my peaceful breast. 



Besides other appropriate memorials to Peter Jay, Peter Augustus 

 Jay, Esq., Mary Rutherford Jay, Margaret Munro, Goldsborough Ban- 

 yar, Eva Munro, Harriet Van Cortlandt and Mary Jay, wife of Fred- 

 erick Prime, Esq. 



The adjoining territory upon the west, constitutes what was form- 

 erly called Guion's neck. From a branch of the Guion family descended 

 from Isaac Guion of New Rochelle, the son of Louis Guion, who emi- 

 grated from England about 1687. The beautiful beaver stream 01 called 

 by the Indians, Pockeotessen, rises north of Guion neck, and forms its 

 western boundary. 



The Purdy estate is situated upon the eastern shore of Rye neck 

 bordering the Blind Brook, (Mockquams). A short distance from the 

 house is the burial place of the Purdy family, Among other memorials 

 is the following : 



JOSHUA PURDY, 



ob. March 4, 1800, 



iEtat, 79. 



On the west bank of the Byram River, which here forms the boundary 

 between New York and Connecticut, is situated the village of Port 



a sometimes styled Stony Brook. 



