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Jay was born on June 16, 1789, in New York City, the son of John Jay and Sarah Van Brugh Livingston, and a brother of Peter Augustus Jay.
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Jay was born on June 16, 1789, in New York City, the son of John Jay and Sarah Van Brugh Livingston, and a brother of Peter Augustus Jay.
Following a thorough classical training under Thomas Ellison, rector of St. Peter's Church in Albany, and preparation for college from Henry Davis, afterwards president of Hamilton College, he entered Yale in 1804. After his graduation (1807) he undertook the study of law in the office of John B. Henry, Albany, but impaired eyesight prevented active practice and he turned to agricultural pursuits on his father's 800 acres at Bedford.
In 1818 Jay was appointed judge of the court of Westchester County, and with one short interruption held that office until 1843, when he was removed through the influence of pro-slavery Democrats. His charges to the jury always commanded attention because of his "full exposition of the law, without the slightest concession to the popular current of the day. " Active with tongue and pen in championing the cause of emancipation, he was agitating for the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia twenty-two years before congressional action brought it about. The first number of the Emancipator, May 1, 1833, had a contribution from Judge Jay. The same year the New York City Antislavery Society was established with his support, and largely through his persuasive arguments a National Antislavery Convention in Philadelphia inaugurated a country-wide campaign that was based on strictly constitutional grounds. Like Wilberforce he opposed the plan to colonize the former slaves in Africa, declaring that those who favored that plan were not moved by "the precepts of the Gospel" but by "prejudice against an unhappy portion of the human family. " To the advocates of gradual emancipation he revealed its dangers, arguing that it must be either "immediate emancipation or continued slavery. "
In other pamphlets Jay reproved certain bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he himself was a communicant, for their use of the Bible to prop up slavery; and he vigorously assailed the American Tract Society, of which he was a life director, for its attempt to sidestep the slavery issue in the interest of harmony. A collection of his arguments, Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery, was published in 1853. Jay was far in advance of his age in the advocacy of arbitration to settle international disputes. His pamphlet of 1842, War and Peace: the Evils of the First and a Plan for Preserving the Last, was reprinted as a timely contribution during the World War peace discussion of 1919.
Amid his various humanitarian activities, he took time to write The Life of John Jay: with Selections from his Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers (1833) and in 1850 published Reply to Remarks of Rev. Moses Stuart on Honorary John Jay, and an Examination of his Scriptural Exegesis, Contained in his Recent Pamphlet Entitled "Conscience and the Constitution" (1850). Other writings are essays on the Sabbath as a civil and divine institution, duelling, temperance, Sunday schools and their development, and a commentary (unpublished) on the Old and New Testaments. His pamphlets in support of Bible Societies brought him into acrimonious controversy with Bishop J. H. Hobart.
Jay was also a devoted agrarian with an enthusiasm for experiments in tillage, drainage, horticulture, and stock-raising on the Bedford estate. He died on October 14, 1858.
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Jay was a known President of the American Peace Society and founder of the American Bible Society (1816).
Jay married, September 4, 1812, Hannah Augusta McVickar, daughter of a New York merchant. They had 8 children, all but 2 survived to adulthood. These included the lawyer John Jay (1817-1894), Anna Jay Balch, Maria Jay Butterworth, Sarah Louisa Jay Bruen and Augusta Jay Pellew.