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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. Passage 218 of 1976 256 words

The interior of the mansion, which is elegantly furnished, displays on its walls a large and valuable collection of cabinet pictures, and family and historical portraits ; among them are the following, viz : In the hall, George Washington, by Trumbull ; John Adams, by Trumbull ; Thomas Jefferson, after Stewart by Ames ; James Madison, by the same ; De Witt Clinton, John Jay, as Chief Justice ; Judge William Jay, by Huntington ; John Jay, by the same ; President Dwight, of Yale College ; Stephen Peloquir, Mayor of Bristol, who married Frances daughter of Pierre Jay.

In the parlors: Augustus Jay, Esq., born at La Rochelle in France, 1665; came to New York, 1697 -- in evening and full dress -- copy from an old French picture ; the late Mr. William Jay, by West; and the late Judge William Jay as a young man, by Vanderlyn.

The dining-room contains : Judge Egbert Benson, by Stewart ; Stephen Van Renselaer, Lt. Governor, by Stewart ; Alexander Hamila Van der Donk'8 N. N.

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ton, by Trumbull ; William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey as a boy; Judge William Jay, by Wenzleu; Mrs. John Jay, (Sarah Livingston) 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.0

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