Papers, 1770-1952. - View Resource (original) (raw)

Abstract

Papers include artwork, accounts, agreements, appraisements of the farm and livestock, contracts, correspondence, deeds, diaries, indentures, inventories and lists, maps of the Jay farm and vicinity, memorabilia, notes, payments and bills, plans of the Jay house, receipts, speeches, and wills. Persons represented include John Jay and his wife Sarah Livingston Jay, William Jay (1789-1858), Peter A. Jay, John Jay II (1817-1894), Col. William Jay II (1841-1915), and Eleanor Jay (Mrs. Arthur) Iselin. The correspondence is largely personal and concerns John Jay's advice to his children, family matters and visits, financial affairs, business, and social life, with several letters concerning abolition and assistance to black people. Other items include two volumes of the Civil War letters of Col. William Jay, 1862-1865; sermons of Peter A. Jay, 1841-1875; family account books, 1830-1895; speeches by William Jay including some on abolition; journal of the Boston Hemp Company, 1831-1843; scrapbook on coaching in Central Park (New York City), ca. 1889; and clippings on the lives and careers of various family members.