Jay Heritage Center:
African American Heritage Trail Sign at the Jay Property (Rye, NY)
Jay Heritage Center:
Many Reasons for Schools to Visit Jay Heritage Center
Jay Heritage Center:
Striving for Freedom - Slavery and Emancipation at the Jay Property, Rye, NY
Jay Heritage Center:
Striving for Freedom (performed at the Jay Heritage Center, December 4, 2009)
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"Striving for Freedom" Jay Heritage Center
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John Jay Returns Home to Rye After Negotiating the Treaty of Paris
Jay Heritage Center:
John Jay's Boyhood Home, "The Locusts" in Rye, NY circa 1745-6 (JHC Collection- Gift of John Clarkson and Emily Jay)
Jay Heritage Center:
The Locusts in Rye, NY circa 1745-6 (JHC Collection- Gift of John Clarkson and Emily Jay)
Jay Heritage Center:
John Jay - New York's Founding Father (Photo credit - JHC Collection)
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1785 The NY Manumission Society is formed
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1785 John Jay elected President of the NY Manumission Society
Jay Heritage Center:
1815 NY Manumission Society
Jay Heritage Center:
Monument to Alexander Hamilton, Trinity Church, NY
Jay Heritage Center:
John Jay, Churchwarden at Trinity
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Marquis de Lafayette - Jay Friend, Revolutionary War Hero and Honorary Member of the NY Manumission Society
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1814 Account Book of Mary Rutherfurd Jay
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Decks of a Slave Ship
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"Ceasar came" November 16, 1814
Jay Heritage Center:
Caesar pictured in 1826 etching companion to James Fenimore Cooper's "The Spy"
Jay Heritage Center:
Rye - "On Monday, October 4th, I buried on the farm of John C. Jay, Caesar Jay (coloured), aged — ."
Jay Heritage Center:
American History can Be Interactive; Historic Preservation can be Green - 130 Students from the Davis School of New Rochelle visit the Jay House in Rye
Jay Heritage Center:
Peter A. Jay bookplate
Jay Heritage Center:
Peter Augustus Jay
Jay Heritage Center:
Plan of the New York State Assembly Chamber - 1821 Convention showing Peter Augustus Jay's Delegate Seat
Jay Heritage Center:
Trinity Church after the fire of 1776
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Jay Property- Barlow Lane Gate House may date back to 1700s
Jay Heritage Center:
African American Slave Memorial at George Washington's home, Mount Vernon
Jay Heritage Center:
Slave Memorial at George Washington's Mount Vernon
Jay Heritage Center:
Martha Washington's runaway slave, Marcus
Jay Heritage Center:
"Gave away to Free School" - Record Books of Mary Rutherfurd and Peter Augustus Jay
