Their eighth child John Jay was born on the 12th of December. 1745, the same year that his father purchased the Rye estate.=>^ At the age of eight years, John Jay was sent to a grammar school at New Rochelle; his instructor being the Rev. Pierre Stouppe, minister of the French Episcopal Church. '• Here he continued for three years, and was then placed by his father under the care of a private tutor, who prepared him for college. The one selected was King's, now Columbia College, an institution that boasts of many celebrated men among its alumni."

" In his fourth collegiate year he decided upon the law as his future profession. a At the commencement held at St. George's Chapel, May, 1764, General Gage and his Majesty's council, (fcc, being present, Richard Harrison seventeen years of age delivered the salutatory oration ; John Jay, a dissertation on the blessings of peace." Upon this occasion he received his degree of bachelor of arts.

The annexed sketch of Mr. Jay's subsequent life is from Blake's Biographical Dictionary.

" John Jay, L. L. D., first chief justice of the United States under the constitution of 1789, graduated at King's (now Columbia) College, A. D. 1764, and in 1768 was admitted to the bar. He was appointed to the first American Congress in 1774, Being on the committee with Lee and Livingston to draft an ad-

» Here John Jay spent his boyhood.

>> Compiled and abridged from the Hfe of John Jay by Henry B. Renwick.