[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] V. 86 ^ • HISTORY OF THE Peter Jay, like his father and grand-father, was a merchant and followed his business with such success, that at the age of forty he was able to retire and live on the proceeds of his in-dustry. At the age of twenty-four he married Mary van Cort-landt. This lady was the daughter of Jacobus van Corllandt of the Lower Yonkers, by his wife Eva Philipse, daughter of the Hon. Frederick Philipse, lord of the manor of Philipsburgh. Through this lady the Jays subsequently became possessed of the Bedford estates. Peter Jay, Esq., by his wife Mary van Cortlandt had ten chil-dren. Their eighth child John Jay was born on the 12th of Decem-ber. 1745, the same year that his father purchased the Rye es-tate.=>^ At the age of eight years, John Jay was sent to a gram-mar school at New Rochelle; his instructor being the Rev. Pierre Stouppe, minister of the French Episcopal Church. '• Here he continued for three years, and was then placed by his father under the care of a private tutor, who prepared him for college. The one selected was King's, now Columbia College, an insti-tution that boasts of many celebrated men among its alumni."