Jay was for years an object of strong popular hostility. -- The Boston True Flag, test June 24, 1876.

In the same room died on Thursday, Oct. 14, 1858, his second son, Judge William Jay. He was born June 16, 1779, graduated at Yale College in 1807, and studied law at Albany; but having injured his eyes by intense study, relinquished his practice and retired to Bedford. Upon the death of his father in 1829, he acquired the Bedford estate. He was for several years one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Westchester County. His life was principally devoted to philanthropic labors, and he went to his rest like a stock of corn, fully ripe.

By his wife Augusta McVicker, he had one son the Hon. John Jay, and five daughters, Anna, who married the Rev. Lewis P. W. Balch, D.D., Cannon of Montreal Cathedral; Maria who married John F. Butterworth; Sarah Louisa, who married Alexander M. Brenan, M.D., and Eliza and Augusta the successive wives of Henry Edward Pellew, Esq,

Surrounding the house are ornamental grounds tastefully laid out in flower-beds and shrubbery, and to the left is a fine kitchen garden and green-houses.

Opposite the homestead in the Katonah wood is situated the handsome stone residence of Henry Edward Pellew, Esq. (grandson of Edmund Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth, England,) brother-in-law of the Hon. John Jay.

A little East of the Jay homestead, flows Spruce Creek, the former division line between the "Vineyards" and the "Dibble" purchases.