78 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



ton, by Trumbull ; William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey as a 

 boy ; Judge William Jay, by Wenzleu ; Mrs. John Jay, (Sarah Living- 

 ston) wife of Chief Justice John Jay and daughter of William Livingston, 

 Governor of New Jersey, with her children William and Sarah, pastel by 

 Pine; Mrs. H. G. Chapman and child, by .Stone; the late H. W. Field, 

 by Nims. Busts of Chief Justice (after a model of Carracio), by Frazee. a 



Judge William Jay, by Kunzte, and Peter Augustus Jay — in the 

 Library — a photograph of Sir Benjamin West — an unfinished painting of 

 the Negotiation of the Treaty of Peace at Versailles in 1783, with por- 

 traits of Jay, Adams, DeFranklin, Temple Franklin, Secretary of the 

 Commission, and Henry Laurens of South Carolina. 



Pastel of Josiah Field, and various engravings and portraits of the 

 family — including Mrs. Maria Banyer and Miss Anne Jay. Among other 

 relics preserved here is the Philipse Family Bible (which came through 

 the Van Cortlandts, Jacobus Van Cortlandt having married Eva 

 Philipse) printed at Amsterdam 1657 by Paulus Aertsz Van Ravesteyn, 

 and the Book of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments, 

 &c, printed by John Besket of London, M. D. ccxxiv. Among the 

 entries in the former are the following, "29 Sept., 1698. William 3 rd by 

 letters patent granted to Augustus Jay all the rights and privileges of a 

 native born English subject." 



" 4th March, 1686, the Governor of New York granted to Augustus 

 Jay letters of denization for the Colony." " Augustus Jay was admitted 

 to the freedom of the city of New York by the Mayor and Aldermen on 

 the 27th of January, 1700." "Augustus Jay 1726 — born March 23, 

 1665 — died 10th of March 1751." In the west end of the house, now 

 used as the library, expired the venerable Chief Justice Jay, on Tuesday 

 the 17th day of May, 1829. "The Hon. John Jay, LL D., was the 

 eighth child of Peter Jay, of Rye, and Mary Van Cortlandt ; he was 

 born on the 12th of December, 1745, and in 1753 was put to school at 

 ■New Rochelle. He was graduated at King's College, New York, in 

 1764, after which he studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1768, and 

 acted as secretary to the Commissioner for running the boundary line 

 between New York and New Jersey. He was a prominent member of 

 the Congress of 1774, and of that of 1775, and in 1776 assisted in fram- 

 ing the Government of New York. He was elected Chief Justice of 

 that State in May, 1777, and resigned that office in 1779, when elected 

 President of Congress. In September, 1779, he was appointed Minister 

 to Spain ; was one of the signers to the definitive treaty of Peace at 



a Frazee executed several busts of Jay from the model of Carracio for the Supreme 

 Court, one of wuica was ordered by Congress. 



