» On tlie 4th of March, 1686, letters of deniziition were granted to Augustus Jay. Upon the 29th of Sept. 1698, King William the third by his royal letters patent, granted to Augustus Jay, " all the rights and privileges of a native born English subject." Augustus Jay was admitted to the freedom of the city of New York, by the mayor and Aldermen, on the 27th January, 1700. From the orlguial documents in possession of the Hon. William Jay.

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the wall and dropping into the ditch. Whether his friends were stunned by the fall, or recaptnned, he had no means of ascertain ing. He himself, however, got out of the ditcl), took the road and arrived at Rochelle. Here he was secreted and protected by his aunt, until she found means to send him to the isle of Aux Rhe, whence he got passage to Denmark. On Iiis way home he passed through Holland, performed his business there, and then crossed over to England, where he saw his father and sister for tlie first time since their separation so many years before. There was one drawback to their joy, one cause of grief; the mother who had gone through so many trials with them, was no more. The calls of business soon separated this iiappy party, and Au- '^ustus took a last farewell, and returned to his business in America.

A few years after his return he married Anna Maria, daughter of Mr. Balthazar Bayard. She like himself, was descended from a fiiuiily who had suffered from religious persecution. Her great grandfather was a Frenchman, a Protestant professor of theology, in one of the colleges at Paris, who was forced either to give up his religion or leave his country, during the reign of Louis XHI.