Pierre
(Peter)
Jay
Born in New York
Ancestors 
Son of Augustus Jay
and Anna Maria (Bayard) Jay
Brother of
Francina Jay
Husband of
Mary (Van Cortlandt) Jay
— married
20 Jan 1728 in New York, New York
Descendants 
Died [location unknown]
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Biography
According to the Jay Heritage Center, Peter Jay was the only son of French Huguenot emigrant, Augustus Jay and Anna Maricka Bayard - a family of successful NYC merchants. Jay married Mary Van Cortlandt, who would give him two sons Peter (blinded by smallpox) and John. Together they bought the Jay Property from John Budd in 1745, which consisted of more than 250 acres. The property was later named “The Locusts.”
Sources
- John Jay, Founding Father
- Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 419-20: He was born in France and came over with his father when young.
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