Mary Van Cortlandt
(1705-1777)
BIRTH
1705
PLACE
New York, Province of New York
DEATH
1777
PLACE
Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, United States
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Peter Jay
(1704-1782)
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Mary Van Cortlandt Jay (1705–1777) was Jacobus Van Cortlandt’s daughter and Peter Jay’s wife, of a prosperous New York family. She raised ten children, including John Jay, and bequeathed him land formerly owned by her father, where he later developed his Westchester farm. The John Jay Homestead knows of no letters or portraits of her. Its account gives a 1732 marriage, while other family biographies give 1728. That date conflict remains; her children’s careers were separate.
EARLY LIFE
Mary Van Cortlandt was born 1705. The external genealogical record identifies Jacobus Van Cortlandt and Eva de Vries adopt. Philipse as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Mary Van Cortlandt is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Mary Van Cortlandt died 1777. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mary Van Cortlandt died in 1777, in Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York, United States. Mary Van Cortlandt Jay was Jacobus Van Cortlandt’s daughter and Peter Jay’s wife, of a prosperous New York family. She raised ten children, including John Jay, and bequeathed him land formerly owned by her father, where he later developed his Westchester farm. The John Jay Homestead knows of no letters or portraits of her. Its account gives a 1732 marriage, while other family biographies give 1728. That date conflict remains; her children’s careers were separate. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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