Although he had been "long remembered," he was not entirely forgotten. The Supreme Court being in session in New York, the gentlemen of the bar, held a meeting, of which David B. Ogden was chairman, and John Suydam was secretary, and at wliich a committee was appointed, consisting of Greene C. Bronson, Jan^es Tallmadge, J. A. Spencer, D. S. Jones, G. Griffin, and J. J. Rosevelt, who reported among others the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted :

" Resolved that the members of this bar are impressed with deep grief upon the decease of their illustrious brother John Jay. They find, however, a consolation in the reflection, that his conduct through a long and useful life, has given a lustre to our profession, and to this bar ; and that while his character for pri-

Residence of tlie Hon John Jay.

* Frazee the sculptor executed several busts of this distinguished individual from the model of Carracio ; one of these was ordered by Congress for the Supreme Court of the U. S.

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vate virtues and public worth has justly endeared him to the nation, liis patriotism, his great talents as a statesman, and his great acquirements as a jurist, his eminent purity as a christian, and his probity as a man, all unite to present him to the public as an example whose radiance points to the attainment of excellence."

Tiie memory of this great and good man will be embalmed in the heart of every true friend of liberty, virtue and the honor and prosperity of the state of New York and her civil institutions, as long as the history of this state and nation shall be known and read ."a