Sarah
Van Brugh
Jay
formerly Livingston
Born in Albany, New York
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Livingston
and Susannah (French) Livingston
Sister of
Susannah (Livingston) Symmes, Catherine Wilhelmina Livingston, William Livingston and Henry Brockholst Livingston
Wife of
John Jay
— married
28 Apr 1774 in Liberty Hall, Elizabethtown, NJ
Descendants 
Mother of
Peter Augustus Jay,
Susan Jay,
Maria (Jay) Banyar,
Ann Jay,
William Jay and
Sarah Louisa Jay
Died
at age 45
in Bedford, New York
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Nov 2008
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Biography
Sarah Van Brugh Livingston was the eldest daughter of the New Jersey Governor William Livingston and his wife, Elizabeth French. Sarah married John Jay when she was just 17 and he was 29.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay
See Sarah Livingston Jay at the John Jay Homestead Museum website.
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When Sally's husband was named minister to Spain, "twenty-three year old Sally, alone among the American wives during the war, decided to make the treacherous trip with her husband." In Octover 1779, they set sail but two months in, misfortune came upon the ship and they had to set course for Martinique via trade winds. A few days after landing, they left for Cadiz and landed in early 1780 after being chased by a English frigate; then continued across land in one horrendous excursion after another. Sally, traveling pregnant, and her husband finally arrived in Madrid six months after their departure from America. <ref> Roberts, Cokie,Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, First Perennial, 2005.</ref>
posted 12 Dec 2018 by Elizabeth Coltrane
[thank Elizabeth]
Sarah Jay wrote her husband in October 1801: "I have been rendered very
happy by the company of our dear children . . . I often, I shd. say daily, bless God for giving us such amiable Children. May they long be preserved a blessing to us & to the community."
posted 18 Nov 2008 by Anonymous McCann
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