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II. 1. Godfrey Hains,2 son of Godfrey,1 called junior, 1734, had land on Budd's Neck, part of which is now comprised in the Jay property. He was drowned in the East River, in 1766. See account on page 161. He had four sons at least : Godfrey, James, Daniel, and Solomon. Gilbert was probably another son.
2. Joseph Hains,2 probably a son of Godfrey,1 was a rope-maker, and in 1741 bought a farm of seventy acres on Budd's Neck below the country road and Westchester old path, 'beginning at a rock within a few feet to the westernmost of the school house.'
3. Solomon Hains,2 perhaps a son of Godfrey,1 had land on Budd's Neck in 1739.
III. 1. Godfrey Hains,3 son of Godfrey,2 was an active loyalist during the Revolution, of whom some account has been given, Chapter XXVII. He was ' a single man' in 1775. The following account of one of his many ' hair-breadth escapes' has been preserved by tradition : He was once taken, together with Joseph Parker and William Haviland (father of Samuel and Thomas, now living), and carried to Poughkeepsie, where they were kept some time in confinement in a dwelling-house. One night Hains, who was a strong man, succeeded in releasing himself from his hand-cuffs, woke his companions, and promised to liberate them. An Indian was on guard at the door, armed with a gun ; the party seized him before he could give the alarm, and taking his gun from him, slipped out, and started to escape. Parker missed the way and was taken ; Hains and Haviland made their way toward the Croton River. They knew that a strong guard was posted on the bridge over which they had been taken, and accordingly went a mile further up, and Hains, being very tall, forded the stream, carrying his comrade on his back. After spending the next day in concealment in a barn, where they came very near detection, they reached home the following night. Hains lived till after the war, and died in Nova Scotia.
2. James Hains,3 son of Godfrey,2 in 1753-1760 bought land on Budd's Neck. His sons were James, junior, and Thomas.
3. Daniel Hains,3 son of Godfrey,? had land from his father in 1760.
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4. Solomon Hains,3 son of Godfrey,2 had land on Budd's Neck in 1760.
5. Gilbert Hains,3 probably a son of Godfrey,? was the father of God- frey, William Andrew, and Gilbert.
IV. 1, 2. James, junior, and Thomas IIains,' ' the two sons of James,' 3 were concerned in the spiking of American cannon near King's Bridge, January 1776. (Journal of Prov. Congress, etc., vol. i. p. 272.)
Gilbert Hains,4 youngest son of Gilbert,3 was a soldier in the war of 1812 ; he died at Milton in 1869. He had three sons : Isaac, Joseph, and Henry S. ; the last two of whom are now living in Milton.
HAIGHT. I. Samuel Haight, of Flushing, L. I., born 1647, died 1712, a prominent member of the Society of Friends, was associated with John Harrison, William Nicoll, Ebenezer Wilson, and David Jami- son, in 1695, in the purchase of the tract of land called after the first of these, Harrison's Purchase. He was a son of Nicholas Haight of Windsor, brother of John Hoit, an early settler of Rye, of whom some account has already been given (page 412). In the division of the lands now forming the town of Harrison, Mr. Haight had two portions, the one in the upper part, adjoining Rye Ponds, which in his will he directed his executors to sell for the benefit of his daughters ; and the other in the lower part, adjoining the territory now forming the town of Rye. Here he left lands to his sons Jonathan and David. He married Sarah -, and had five sons : Samuel, Nicholas, Jonathan, David, and John; and five daughters : Susannah, married Richard Griffin ; Sarah, married Silas Titus ; Mary, married David Eustace or Huystead ; Hannah ; and Phœbe.
II. 1. Samuel Haight,2 son of Samuel of Flushing,1 born about 1670, died 1712, was the father of James, of Greenburg.
2. Nicholas Haight2 son of Samuel,1 was the father of Jacob, who removed to Dutchess County about 1750.
· 3. Jonathan IIaight,2 son of Samuel,1 inherited land from his father, which he sold in portions to a number of persons, among others to the Rev. James Wetmore, before 1728. He removed with his son Charles to North Castle. His other son William remained till 1765, when he went to Sing Sing.
4. David Haight,2 son of Samuel,1 born before 1691, died before 1760. He came to Rye and settled near the present Harrison station, in which neighborhood his lands were located. His sons were Samuel, David, Thomas, and Nicholas. Daughters : Hannah, and Elizabeth, who married John Culbert. In 1746 and 1757 he divided his lands among them, giving one hundred acres each to Samuel and David, forty acres to Thomas, and one hundred and forty acres to Nicholas, including his homestead.
III. 1. Samuel Haight,3 son of David,2 died in 1784; probably with out children.
2. David Haight,3 son of David,2 born about 1701, died about 1798
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His house stood on the north side of the entrance to Mr. Josiah Macy's place, on North Street, which he owned. He was a member of the Vestry of Rye. Ile sold the property in 1792 to his son Daniel, and went to live with his son David, at Bedford, where he died. He was married twice ; first, to Melicent Lane. Children : John, and Lavinia, wife of Elijah Purdy, born 1735, died 1816. Secondly, to Abigail Purdy. Children : Thomas, David, Samuel, Daniel, Isaiah, and Joshua. Another daughter married Benjamin Miller of Putnam County.
3. Thomas Haight,3 son of David,2 was dead in 1757.
4. Nicholas Haight,3 son of David,2 had the homestead, near the pres- ent Harrison station. IIe died before 1775, leaving one son, David.
IV. 1. John Haight,4 son of David,3 born 1738, died 1819, lived where Mr. William H. Smith now lives, on North Street. He has de- scendants in New York.
2. Thomas Haight,4 son of David,3 was of New York.
3. David,4 lived in Bedford, and died in 1836.
4. Samuel,4 had one son, Hachaliah, who died young.
5. Daniel,4 had the mill now Mr. Van Amringe's, for a time, and in 1792 bought his father's farm, now Mr. Josiah Macy's. He married in 1777 Phobe, daughter of Roger Purdy, senior, of North Street, and died in 1828, aged seventy-six years. He had three sons : Jonathan, Daniel, and Epenetus ; and five daughters : Anne, married Elijah An- derson ; Sarah, married first, Daniel, son of John Haight; second, Elijah Purdy ; Mary, married Isaac Purdy ; Elizabeth, married Elias Purdy ; and Abigail, married Richard F. Cornwell.
V. 1. Jonathan Haight,5 son of Daniel,4 born September 25, 1782 ; married Hannah Seaman, born September 30, 1786. He died Novem- ber 25, 1856; his wife, July 25, 1856. They had eight sons : Elisha, Jonathan, Charles, Daniel, Sylvanus, Henry, William, and George ; and one daughter.
2. Daniel Ilaight,5 son of Daniel,4 married Desire, daughter of Ne- hemiah Wilson, of Greenwich, September 26, 1810. They had five sons : Nehemiah W., Daniel, Joseph, John D., and Webster ; and three daughters.
3. Epenetus Haight,5 son of Daniel,4 had three daughters.
HAWKSHURST, Daniel, 1758, bought Flamman's place at Saw l'it, and next year lived in Rye.
HARE, Edward, of Rye, 1742, sold thirty acres in Harrison to Thomas Marsh in 1746, and next year his house and twelve acres in Rye. He married Mary, daughter of Sarah Tory, widow, of Rye.
HARRIS, George. See page 177.
HARRISON, Samuel, 1750, had land in Harrison, on the cross-road to White Plains.
HATFIELD. Peter, witness in 1724. Abraham, of White Plains, 1749, sold land there. Gilbert, of White Plains, is mentioned 1751 ; and. Joshua in 1748.
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HALSTED. Jonas, 1726. David, 1732-1734. Thomas, 1738-1768, was of Harrison. The Revolutionary chart of 1779 shows his farm on the cross-road to White Plains, near Mamaroneck River.
HALSTED. I. 1. Ezekiel Halsted,1 originally from Huntington, L. I., says Mr. Bolton (Hist. Weschester Co., vol. ii. p. 79), was of New Rochelle in 1732. (Co. Rec., G.) He removed to Rye in 1746, and bought from the sons of Timothy Knap the estate now belonging to the heirs of the late Newberry Halsted, on the road to the Beach. He was, apparently, one of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church in 1753. He died at Rye, October 30, 1757, in the forty-ninth year of his age. (Milton Cemetery.) He had two sons, Ezekiel and Joseph.
2. Philemon Halsted,1 was executor to Ezekiel's will, and therefore could not be the Philemon mentioned below, born in 1743. He was doubtless Ezekiel's brother. In 1768 Ezekiel 2 sold to him the estate above described, and also ninety acres north of Roger Park's farm, now Mr. Greacen's. This was the property owned a few years ago by a namesake of Philemon.
II. 1. Ezekiel Halsted,2 son of Ezekiel,1 was born in New Rochelle, November 29, 1738, and came to Rye with his father. He married Abigail Theall, July 17, 1758. In 1768 he sold the property left him by his father, and, April 30, 1771, bought the farm south of it, previ- ously Jonathan Brown's, comprising one hundred acres, the lower part of which is still owned by his grandson Underhill. Ezekiel 2 died February 20, 1805. He had a son Ezekiel, and perhaps others.
2. Joseph Halsted,2 son of Ezekiel,1 was probably younger, as pro- vision was made in his father's will for his support.
3. Philemon Halsted,2 probably a son of Philemon,1 was born Octo- ber 10, 1743, and died August 13, 1816. He married Jane
III. 1. Ezekiel Halsted,3 son of Ezekiel,2 born February 6, 1761, married, first, February 10, 1784, Sarah, daughter of Andrew Lyon, born August 17, 1760, died February 24, 1802. They had five sons : Andrew Lyon, Ezekiel, Underhill, Elisha, and William Henry ; and three daughters: Sarah, born August 21, 1789, married Joseph H. Horton, November 22, 1808, died September 20, 1816: Mary, born July 4, 1791, married Elijah M. Davis, January 3, 1815 ; and Jane Eliza, born July 29, 1801, married Joseph Miller, February 8, 1826. Mr. Halsted married a second time, December 16, 1802, Esther [Schure- man] Griffin, widow of John, born February 23, 1762, died May 5, 1843. They had two sons, Samuel and Schureman.
2. Philemon Halsted,s son of Ezekiel,2 born April 2, 1779, married Deborah, daughter of Newberry and Elizabeth Davenport, born 1788, died July 1, 1845. He died May 16, 1857. Sons : James D. and New- berry.
IV. 1. Andrew Lyon Halsted,4 son of Ezekiel,3 born December 15, 1784, married, first, April 3, 1809, Lavinia Horton, who died February 26, 1811. He married a second time, May 13, 1812, Frances Miller.
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He had five daughters by the first wife, and a son, Griffin B., and a daughter, by the second.
2. Ezekiel Halsted,4 son of Ezekiel,“ born August 13, 1787, married, November 23, 1808, Ann Griffen. He died August 28. 1828, . having been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church twenty-two years.' He had four sons : John, Edward, Ezekiel, and Benjamin ; and one daughter.
3. Underhill Halsted,4 son of Ezekiel,3 born January 3, 1794, mar- ried, April 28, 1818, Ann Barker. Children : Henry, William, Sarah.
4. Elisha Halsted,4 son of Ezekiel,3 born February 13, 1776, married, April 28, 1824, Harriet Purdy. Children : James, Leonard, Mary.
5. William Henry Halsted,4 son of Ezekiel,3 born August 21, 1799, married, November 12, 1823, Sarah Barker. He had four daughters.
6. Samuel Halsted,4 son of Ezekiel,3 had three daughters.
7. Schureman Halsted,4 son of Ezekiel,3 had Ezekiel, Gilbert, Wil- liam, Samuel, Isaac, Charles, and three daughters.
8. James D. Halsted,4 son of Philemon,3 married Elizabeth Todd, and had two sons, Augustus and Mandeville, and one daughter.
HAVILAND. Three persons of this name appear in our records nearly simultaneously, - Jacob in 1715, Benjamin and Adam in 1716. Thomas and John, apparently brothers, appear soon after, in 1723- 1725. In 1742 they owned a parcel of sedge land on Manussing Island (the southern part of which was called Haviland Island in 1796).
Jacob was of Harrison in 1727, and of West Street in 1742. He was perhaps the father of Joseph.
Benjamin, called junior, 1718-1723, in 1724 conveyed a farmi of one hundred and thirty acres in Harrison to his son Ebenezer. (Co. Rec., lib. G. p. 6). Solomon, son of Benjamin deceased, married Ilannah, daughter of Thomas Carpenter, September 17, 1742. (Friends' Ree.) Charity, daughter of Benjamin Haviland, married John Ilutchins, six- teenth of fourth month, 1742. (Ibid.) Adam had a son Gilbert. (Brander's Book.)
II. 1. Joseph Haviland 2 was of West Street in 1751, and may have been the son of Jacob, of West Street. Ile was the father of William.
2. Solomon,2 son of Benjamin deceased, September 17, 1742, mar- ried Hannah, daughter of Thomas Carpenter. (Friends' Rec.)
3. Gilbert,2 son of Adam, mentioned 1751.
4. William, of Harrison's Purchase, was the father of Margaret, who married Stephen Cornell, sixteenth of eighth month, 1775 (Friends' Rec.) ; and Charity, who married Richard Burling, fourth of twelfth month, 1776. (Ibid.)
5. John Haviland, perhaps a son of John above mentioned, married Sarah Sneading.
III. 1. William Haviland,3 son of Joseph,2 born July 4, 1754, died June 24, 1834. He married, February 14, 1781, Elizabeth, daughter of John Gedney, born February 14, 1763; died November 16, 1842.
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He lived in a house which stood at some distance west of North Street, on land now owned by Mr. William Mathews, but removed to the lower part of White Plains, shortly after the Revolution. He had four sons : Bartholomew, Timothy, Samuel, Thomas ; and five daugh- ters : Dorothy, born September 17, 1784. married William Harriott, died August 15, 1852 ; Margaret, born January 13, 1793, married Samuel Purdy, died July 18, 1855 ; Jane, born June 5, 1796, married Eliphalet Todd ; Matilda G., born April 18, 1799, married Benjamin Clark, died August 25, 1853 ; and Charlotte, born December 9, 1802, died October 10, 1865.
2. John Haviland,3 son of John 2 and Sara' Sneading, married Phobe, daughter of Thomas Carpenter, born March 24, 1741. They had four sons : William, John, Benjamin, and . Samuel ; and five daughters : Sarah, married Isaac Oakley, died about 1820; Charity, married Gilbert Brundage, died March 4, 1823; Margaret, married first, J. Smith, second, James Nearing ; Mary, married William Miller ; Elizabeth, married Thomas Carpenter ; and Jane, married Aaron Field, died 1858, aged ninety-three.
IV. 1. Bartholomew Haviland,4 son of William,3 born January 9, 1783, died October 28, 1851.
2. Timothy,4 son of William,3 born August 20, 1786, died May 29, 1869.
3. Samuel,+ son of William,3 born October 20, 1788.
4. Thomas,4 son of William,3 born June 5, 1791.
5. William Haviland,4 son of John,3 married Mary Halsted, and died young, leaving two daughters : Charity, married Richard Burling ; and Margaret, married Stephen Cornell.
6. John Haviland,+ son of John,3 born August 1, 1734, married Phoebe Carpenter. He died February 29, 1804. They had two sons : William, and John ; and three daughters : Jane, Sarah, and Mary (died young).
7. Benjamin Haviland,4 son of John,3 married Anne Cornell, tenth of first month, 1777 ; he died in Canada.
8. Samuel Haviland,4 son of John,3 married Rachel Lecraft, daugh- ter of Dr. Willett, and died in Bedford.
Dr. Ebenezer Haviland (see pp. 146, 169,) belonged to one of the branches of this family. He married Tamar, daughter of Underhill Budd, March 25, 1765 ; served honorably in the Revolutionary War as military surgeon ; and died at Wallingford, Connecticut, about the close of the war. (See page 499 for account of his family.) 'Mr. Haviland,' was recognized as deputy from Westchester County, in the New York Convention, when it met 'in the Court house at the White Plains,' July 9, 1776. (American Archives, fourth series, vol. i. p. 1386.) He was sur- geon to the Fourth Regiment, New York Continental troops, August 4, 1775. (Ibid. vol. iii. p. 26.) In April 1776, the New York Committee of Safety appointed ' Doctor Ebenezer Haviland Surgeon to Col. Wyn- koop's Regiment,' and ordered ' that he immediately take the direction
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of the Field Officers of the Regiment, as to his duty and attendance.' (American Archives, fourth series, vol. v. p. 1475.) . Ebenezer Havi- land, S. [surgeon's ] mate 2ª Regt [New York] died 28 June '81.' (The Balloting Book, and other Documents relating to Military Bounty Lands, in the State of New York: Albany, 1825: p. 108.) The patent for five hundred acres, bounty land, awarded him in 1790, was ' delivered to Horatius Haviland his son.' (Ibid. pp. 59, 165.)
HAWKINS, John, was here in 1771. Ilis son, called junior in 1789, was constable for six years. This family owned land on Grace Church Street, above Jonathan Sniffen's. Here William lived in 1804.
HAYS, Jacob, with Titus Beekman, of New York, and others, in 1721-1722, leased forty acres in Rye 'for thirty years, to work mines thereon !' The land was apparently on Hog-pen Ridge. Jacob lays, merchant, in 1734 sold ' his lot where he now dwells ' in Rye.
Judah Hays, of New York, merchant, 1743, bought Thomas Purdy's homestead. In 1757 he advertised his stock of dry goods at his ' store in the late Major Van Horne's house, between the Fly and Meal Mar- kets' in New York.
HAYWOOD. William, 1720, witness ; John, 1736. In 1719. John Haywood of New York, gentleman, had land on Manussing Island.
HILL. Henry, 1713, bought of Mary Sherwood one hundred acres in the upper part of Will's Purchase, - now North Castle. John, wit- ness, 1746-1753. Anthony, of Scarsdale, 1749, bought and sold land on Brown's Point. Andrew, 1765.
HEET, or HITT. Thomas Heate, or Hitte, was of Cambridge, Mass .. in 1635, . after which,' says Mr. Savage, 'the name is not found.' Henry Heet or Hitt was here in 1710, and perhaps before. Ile had land in Will's Purchase, and was collector in 1717. lle is last men- tioned in 1726. Samuel was of Rye in 1723.
HOBES, or HUBBS. Joseph lived on . Gracos street'in 1753. Dan- iel, of Rye, in 1761 bought Solomon Purdy's homestead on Ridge Street, below the place lately Mrs. Osborne's. Here he had fifty-seven aeres in 1763. Zephaniah, in 1767, had one of the lots at Saw Pit. Alexander had land on ' Gracious street' in 1768. Abraham is men- tioned in 1790.
HOSIER. Samuel, witness in 1740. John, of White Plains, married Hannah Horton, fifteenth of eleventh month, 1758. (Friends' Rec.)
HOWEL, Thomas, 1756-1767, was of Harrison.
HUGFORD. Thomas, of Greenwich, bought land near Saw Pit in 1751, and sold it next year. Peter Hugeford, see page 167.
HICKS. John ' Heex' was of Rye in 1723.
HUTCHINGS. John ' Huchinge' was of Rye in 1720.
HUSON. Walter, 1743; Henry, 1747.
HUNT. 'Samuel Hunt, of Rye,' in 1705, had twenty acres of land from the town, with permission to build a mill at the falls of Mamaro- neck River, above Humphrey Underhill's. From the deposition of
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Edward Rogers before the Council, New York, February 13, 1725, it appears that Hunt was of Westchester, and was a son-in-law of Under- hill. (Land Papers in Secretary of State's Office, Albany, vol. viii. p. 101.) In 1721 he had a tract of three hundred and eighty acres in White Plains, for which he obtained a patent. (Ibid. p. 100.) The survey of White Plains, February 24, 1721, shows the location of this tract, between North Street and Mamaroneck River. His house, at the lower end of this tract, stood about where Mr. Carpenter's house now stands, two miles below the village. His mill was situated appar- ently where there is a saw-mill now, a mile and a half above the bridge. Samuel Hunt, junior, was of Rye in 1745-1748.
Hugh Hunt was here in 1717, and Enoch Hunt in 1739-1742. These may have been sons of Samuel. No others of this name appear to have settled in Rye, until the latter part of the century, when . Jesse Hunt, Esq., high sheriff of the county, married Esther, daughter of the Rev. James Wetmore, and widow of David Brown of Rye. It is said that he then sold Hunter's Island, which he owned, and came to this place. He was supervisor of the town in 1785-1786. He lived where Mr. Josiah Purdy now lives, near the railroad station in Rye, upon land which his wife had received from her father. Mr. Hunt had three sons, Thomas, Jesse, and Samuel, and a daughter, by his first wife ; no children by the second. See pedigree in Bolton's History of Westchester County, vol. ii. pp. 523, 524. I find nothing to bear out the statement there made that Thomas Hunt, who went to Westchester before 1665, was ' of Rye.' On no other ground than this statement, apparently, the IIunt Genealogy represents this ancestor of the West- chester family as going from Stamford to Rye ' by 1652,' - a period when Rye certainly was not ; and as representative in 1664. - a fact which the Colony Records do not establish. The name does not appear among the names of our early settlers.
HUNTER, Andrew, was here in 1723-1724.
IRELAND, Adam ; see page 120.
. JACOBS, Raphael, 1739, merchant of New York, in 1742 bought from Gideon Barrel the house and land adjoining previously Peter Brown's (lately D. H. Mead's), which he afterwards sold to Rev. Jas. Wetmore. (Records, and Mr. Wetmore's will.)
JAGGER, Lemuel, married Anna, daughter of Roger Park ; 3 in 1775 he bought the above mentioned property from Dr. Ebenezer Haviland (Co. Rec., lib. i. p. 74), and sold it in 1784 to Dr. Gilbert Budd, of Mamaroneck. (Ibid. p. 357.) In 1776, the Vestry met ' at the house of Capt. Lemuel Jagger.' About the beginning of this century he was living in a house which stood between the post-road and Mr. J. E. Corning's present residence.
* 'Jesse Hunt of New Rochelle' was captain of militia in Colonel Drake's regi- ment, May, 1776. (See certificate of good character given him by the N. Y. Com. of Safety ; American Archives, fourth series, vol. v. p. 1486.)
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John Jay.
The Jay Cemetery, Rye.
JAY. 'I have been informed that our family is of Poictou, in France, and that the branch of it to which we belong removed from thence to Rochelle. Of our ancestors anterior to Pierre Jay, who left France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, I know nothing that is certain.' (Chief Justice Jay, autobiography, in Life of John Jay, by his son William Jay : in two volumes. New York, 1833 : vol. i. pp. 2, 3.)
I. Pierre Jay 'was an active and opulent merchant, extensively and profitably engaged in commerce. He married Judith, a daughter of Mons. François, a merchant in Rochelle. One of her sisters married M. Mouchard, whose son was a director of the French East India Company. Pierre Jay had three sons and one daughter. The sons were Francis, who was the eldest; Augustus, who was born the twenty- third of March, 1665 ; and Isaac. The daughter's name was Frances. Mr. Jay seemed to have been solicitous to have one of his sons educated in England. He first sent his eldest son, but he unfortunately died [of sea-sickness] on the passage. Notwithstanding this distressing event, he immediately sent over his son Augustus, who was then only twelve years old. In the year 1683, Mr. Jay recalled Augustus, and sent him to Africa, but to what part or for what purpose is now unknown.' (Ibid.)
During the absence of Augustus, the persecution of the Protestants in France became severe ; and Pierre Jay became one of its objects. Dragoons were quartered in his house ; and his family were subjected to serious annoyance. He was imprisoned in the castle of Rochelle,
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but was released through the influence of some Roman Catholic con- nections. Having at the time several vessels out at sea, which were expected soon in port, he desired a Protestant pilot in his employment to take the first of these vessels that should arrive to a place agreed upon - the Island of Rhe. The ship that arrived first was one from Spain, of which he was the sole owner. The pilot was faithful to his trust, and in due time Mr. Jay reached England, and rejoined his family, whom he had sent to England some time before, at Plymouth.
II. Augustus Jay returned to France from Africa, ignorant of these family changes. As it was unsafe to appear in Rochelle openly, he was secreted for some time by his aunt Madame Mouchard, who was a Prot- estant, but whose husband was a Roman Catholic. With the help of his friends he escaped to the West Indies, and thence to Charleston, South Carolina. The climate proving unfavorable, he removed to Philadelphia, and afterwards to Esopus, on the Hudson River, where he entered into business ; but he ultimately settled down in New York. He revisited France and England in 1692, and saw his father and sister ; his mother had lately died.
In 1697, Augustus Jay married, in New York, Anna Maria, daughter of Balthazar Bayard, the descendant of a Protestant professor of theol- ogy at Paris in the reign of Louis XIII. who had been compelled to leave Paris and take refuge with his wife and children in Holland ; whence several members of his family came to America. Mrs. Jay was a woman of eminent piety. It is mentioned that she died while on her knees in prayer.
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