Putnam patriot., 1923-11-16
POMFRET
The Passing of Dr.. Jay

The following notice of the deatt
 of Dr. John Clarkson Jay of ''Tns Acorns," Pomfret. appeared in the [ Sunday edition of The New Yors ! Times:
 In the passing last Wednesday oi Dr. John Clarkson Jay there was re
 moved the head of that noted elan as Dr. Jav was the oldest surviving son of the oldest grandson of John 1 Jay, the founder of the family in New York Dr. Jay, who was in his eight I ieth year and was graduated from Columbia fifty-eight years ago. main. | tained the reputation of his branch of the house in science and the pro. ! fessions. In practieing medicine for more than half a century, Dr. Jay had followed in the footsteps of his father. Dr. John Clarkson Jay. who was born in 1908, and married in 1881 Laura Prime, a daughter of Nathaniel Prime. The first Dr. Jay's father was Peter Augustus Jay, LID, who was born in the year of the sign ing of the Declaration Of ihdepen- denee and married at 3l, Mary Ruth. erford Clarkson, daughter of Matthew Garrison IL was through her that ClaFksoH came into Dr. Jays name The first Peter Augustus was the old est son of Chief Justice John Jay. who, in l774. married the daughter of William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey.
 The first Chief Justice had three children. Tn the third generation the house of Jay had expanded to thirty families, from which has descended. in the present fourth and fifth gene rations, eircls of more than 200 relatives.
 The John Jay of the present Is a son of the late Peter Augustus Jay, the older brother of Dr. John Clark soH Jay 2d. The widow of Peter Augustus 2d. daughter of Dr. Alfred Post. is living. She is the mother of Pierre Jay and with her lives daugh- ter. Miss Mary Rutherford Jay. Dr. John Ciarkson Jay 2d married in 1872 daughter of Major-Gen. D. H. Vim ton, |. :. A. She died several years ago. The surviving members of his family are two children, John Clark son Ja'. Sd and Mrs. Benjamin Hay wood Adams.
 Dr. Jay had three sisters. Laura married Charles Pemberton Wurts and Pierre Jay Wurts of Weiyoh, Englewood, \. J., is her son. An other sister, Mary Jay. married, in 1861, Jonatha Edwards. She died in 1897. Her daughter is Miss Laura Jay Edwards, who lives abroad The younger sisters of Dr. Jay were the Misses Cornelia and Alice Jay
 It was chiefly through Judge Will liam Jay, the youngest of the first Chief Justices children, that the foreign relations of the Jay family were established. Two of Judge Jays daughters, Eliza and Augusta Jay |. were married to Henry Edward Pel- lew. the sixth Niscount Exmouth. who long was an American citizen. and died al his home in Washington early this year Eliza Jay was married to the late Lord Exmouth in 1858. She died in 1869. The only child of this marriage Is Charles Ernest Pellew. the new Lord Exmouth. who married in February, Miss Mabel Gray of New York. and who has gone 10 England to become a British subject and even tualiy take his seat in the House of Lords The new Viseount is of the same generation as was Dr Jay in descent from John Jay. In 1878 the late Henry Edward PelIew married Augusta Jay, his first wife's sister Of the second marriage is Miss Marion Jay Pellew of Washington, half sister of the new American born peer.
 The junior branch of the Jay fam ily that brought into being the Ameri- can Pellews also brought into the fam fly the name of Von Sehweinitz. Anna Jay, daughter of John Jay 2d, who was Minister to Germany during the middle period of the eighteenth cen tury, was married to Lieut.-Gen Von Sehweinitz of the German army. They had large family, which still lives in Germany, John Jay 2d also was the pFogenitor of the Chapmans, Chambers. Mortimers. Putnams, Schie- fleins and some of the Barclays.
 There will be Harvest supper served in the A. O. H hail by St Monies's Guild, Wednesday, Nov 2l. from 6.30 to S.30 Admission thirty five cents All welcome
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