You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Augustus Jay (1665-1751), son of Pierre Jay, a rich merchant of La Rochelle, France, was on a trading trip to Africa, when his Huguenot family fled to Bristol, England. He was smuggled on board a ship that sailed to South Carolina. He soon moved north and settled in New York City. In 1697, he married Anna Maricka Bayard, daughter of Balthazar Bayard. They had three daughters and a son. Most descendants listed lived in New York.
Volume one presents documents that establish the structure of the Supreme Court and recount the official record of the Court's activity during its first decade. It serves as an introduction and reference tool for the subsequent volumes in the series.
How did real-life spies communicate in secret? Readers get a sneak peek at actual spies and the gear they used to exchange information and complete their missions!
None
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Seward and Stanton comes the definitive biography of John Jay: “Wonderful” (Walter Isaacson, New York Times–bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci). John Jay is central to the early history of the American Republic. Drawing on substantial new material, renowned biographer Walter Stahr has written a full and highly readable portrait of both the public and private man—one of the most prominent figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. “The greatest founders—such as Washington and Jefferson—have kept even the greatest of the second tier of the nation’s founding generation in the shadows. But now John Jay, argu...