It is sufficient to say that all, without exception, were devoted to the elevation of society, by the removal of the evils which retard its progress. His useful and eventful life ended October 14, 1858. This event caused heartfelt grief among all who realized the value of the friend of humanity. The various societies of which he was a member paid tributes of respect to his memory, and Frederick Douglas, as the fit representative of the race for whose freedom he had labored so long and so well, delivered an eloquent and fitting eulogy. It was his fortune, like that of many others who have labored in a noble cause, not to be permitted to see the result of his labors. The end of slavery, for which he toiled so long, came not till years after he had passed away, and was accomplished by means of whicli he never dreamed. But of all the names that grace the list of the friends of humanity and freedom, none deserves a higher place than that of William Jay.

His portrait is placed over the bench in the county court-house at White Plains, in grateful and appropriate recognition of the illustrious position which the name of Jay holds in the annals of Westchester jurisprudence. After Judge William Jay left the bench, in 1823, Judge Caleb Tompkins was re-appointed to the position of first judge, which he held up to 184(), when he died.

George Case, of New Rochelle, a side-judge of the Common Pleas and General Sessions of the county, during the last two years of Judge Tompkins' life, often presided as first judge in his absence. It is said that