Maria Jay Banyer
(1782-1856)
BIRTH
February 20, 1782
PLACE
NAME
Maria Jay
DEATH
November 21, 1856
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
John Jay
(1745-1829)
MOTHER
Sarah Livingston Jay
(1756-1802)
BROTHER
William Livingston
(1723-1790)
BROTHER
Peter Augustus Jay
(1776-1843)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Maria Jay Banyer (1782–1856), daughter of John Jay and Sarah Livingston, married Albany attorney Goldsborough Banyer in 1801. By 1810 she had lost her husband and both children, then cared for her elderly father-in-law. She moved to New York in 1816 and kept close contact with her family at Bedford. Her letters report on her father ’s health, while surviving drawings show her artistic skill. She also preserved family keepsakes, giving her mother’s miniature to a niece.
EARLY LIFE
Maria Jay Banyer was born on Feb 20, 1782. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Maria Jay Banyer is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Maria Jay Banyer died on Nov 21, 1856. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Maria Jay Banyer died on Nov 21, 1856. Maria Jay Banyer, daughter of John Jay and Sarah Livingston, married Albany attorney Goldsborough Banyer in 1801. By 1810 she had lost her husband and both children, then cared for her elderly father-in-law. She moved to New York in 1816 and kept close contact with her family at Bedford. Her letters report on her father’s health, while surviving drawings show her artistic skill. She also preserved family keepsakes, giving her mother’s miniature to a niece. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Jay Cemetery
240 Boston Post Road, City of Rye, New York, 10580, USA
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