The latter department is quite rich in specimens of the stone implements of the American aborigines.

It is to Dr. Fisher that we are indebted for the history of the town of Ossining, which forms one of the chapters of this work.

THE JAY FAMILY.

The Jay family,* so well-known throughout Westchester County, and indeed throughout the whole 'country, trace their ancestry to Pierre Jay, who left France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

He was an active and opulant merchant, extensively and profitably engaged in commerce. He married Judith, a daughter of Mr. Francois, a merchant in Rochelle. One of her sisters married M. Mouchard, whose son was a director of the French East India Company. Pierre Jay had three sons and one daughter. The sons were Francis, who was the eldest; Augustus, born March 23, 1665 and Isaac. The daughtei-'s name was Frances. Mr. Jay seems to have been solicitous to have one of his sons educated in England. He first sent his eldest, but he unfoi-tunately died of sea-sickness on the passage.

iThe Jay family and Johu f'larkson Jay, M.D., (compiled from a sketch of the Jay family in " Baird's History of Rye.")

Notwithstanding this distressing e^ent, he immediately sent over Augustus, who was then only twelve years old. In 1683, he recalled Augustus and sent him to Africa, but to what part or for what purpose is now unknown.

During the absence of Augustus, the persecution of the Protestants in France became severe; and Pierre Jay became one of its objects. Dragoons were quartered in his house, and his family were subjected to serious annoyance. He was imprisoned in the castle of Rochelle, but was released through the influence of some Roman Catholic connections. Having at the time several vessels out at sea which were expected soon in port, he desired a Protestant pilot in his employ to take the first of these vessels that should arrive to a place agreed upon the Island of Rhe.