His wife was Ann Carey Randolph, daughter of Thomas Randolph, of Roanoke, and a descendant of the celebrated Pocahontas. He left a son, Gouverneur Morris, Esq., of Morrisania. Barber, already quoted, says of him -- " The activity of his mind, the richness of his fancy and the copiousness of his eloquent conversation were the admiration of all his acquaintances, and he was universally admitted as one of the most accomplished and prominent men of our country."

The illustrious John Jay, LL.D., first chief justice of the United States under the Constitution of 1789, practiced in the Westchester County Courts from 1769 to 1776. Judge Jay was the eighth child of Peter Jay, Esq., merchant, by his wife, Mary Van Cortlandt. He was born on the 12th of December, 1745. He received a collegiate education at King's College and took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1764. Already he had decided upon the law as his profession, and in 1768 he was admitted to the bar. A mere outline of the life of this great citizen would fill more space than we can devote to the bench and bar of Westchester County. From the day when he was appointed to the First American Congress, in 1774, to the year 1801, when he retired from public life to enjoy wellearned rest at Bedford, in this county, his career was of usefulness and patriotic devotion. Chief justice of New York from 1777 to 1779, President of Congress, minister plenipotentiary to Spain in 1779, a signer of the definitive treaty of peace with Great Britain in 1783, chief justice of the United States in 1789 and minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain in 1794, he rendered the most eminent services to the