The Jay Estate - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Jay Estate - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Jay Estate is a 23-acre park and historic site in Rye, New York, with the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House at its center. It is the keystone of the Boston Post Road Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District (NHL) created in 1993. and Herbert Alan Johnson, John Jay 1745-1829 (The University of the State of New York, The State Education Department, 3d edition, Revised in 1995 to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Birth of John Jay, Born December 12, 1745, p.57.) The site is the surviving remnant of the farm where US Founding Father,Richard B. Morris, Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries (New York: Harper & Row, 1973) John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829), grew up. It is also the place where Jay returned to celebrate the end of the American Revolutionary War, after he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris with fellow peacemakers John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.Hubbard, Elbert, "John Jay," Magazine of American History, New York, January, February, March Issue 1902, p.27. Read more on Wikipedia
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