Peter Jay
(1704-1782)
BIRTH
1704
PLACE
New York
DEATH
1782
PLACE
FAMILY
WIFE
Mary Van Cortlandt
(1705-1777)
CHILDREN
John Jay
(1745-1829)
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ANGLICAN
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Peter Jay was a New York merchant born in 1704, a son of Augustus Jay and Anna Maria Bayard. He married Mary Van Cortlandt and was the father of John Jay, the statesman and first U.S. chief justice. After smallpox blinded two of their children, Peter retired from business and moved the household to Rye. Family histories describe trade in commodities and a brief term as a city alderman. He died in 1782. Sources disagree on the marriage year, so that detail remains qualified.
EARLY LIFE
Peter Jay was born 1704. The external genealogical record identifies Augustus Jay and Anna Maria Bayard Jay 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 Peter Jay 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. Peter Jay died 1782. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Family histories describe trade in commodities and a brief term as a city alderman. Sources disagree on the marriage year, so that detail remains qualified. After smallpox blinded two of their children, Peter retired from business and moved the household to Rye. Peter Jay died in 1782. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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