Jay Heritage Center:
African American Heritage Trail Sign at the Jay Property (Rye, NY)
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Bill of sale "Negro man Damon" 1753
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The Locusts in Rye, NY circa 1745-6 (JHC Collection- Gift of John Clarkson and Emily Jay)
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John Jay's Boyhood Home, "The Locusts" in Rye, NY circa 1745-6 (JHC Collection- Gift of John Clarkson and Emily Jay)
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John Jay (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
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"Gave away to Free School" - Record Books of Mary Rutherfurd and Peter Augustus Jay
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"Striving for Freedom" Jay Heritage Center
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Peter Augustus Jay
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Plan of the New York State Assembly Chamber - 1821 Convention showing Peter Augustus Jay's Delegate Seat
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1814 Account Book of Mary Rutherfurd Jay
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"Ceasar came" November 16, 1814
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1815 NY Manumission Society
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William Jay, John Jay's youngest son
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Kneeling Slave - Abolitionist symbol created by Josiah Wedgwood
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Kneeling Slave on Frontpiece of "Cabinet of Freedom" 1836
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Rye - "On Monday, October 4th, I buried on the farm of John C. Jay, Caesar Jay (coloured), aged — ."
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Avenge Ellsworth! Civil War Cover depicted an Ellsworth Zouave
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Flag Iconography in the Civil War
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Civil War images of George Washington
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Seal of New York - Civil War
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Assistant Surgeon Dr. Henry Augustus DuBois
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Captain Cornelius "Nealy" Jay DuBois (b. 1836 - d. 1880)
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JHC's Sesquicentennial Exhibit is Open
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Remembering Ellsworth 150 years later - Ellsworth depicted on Union cover
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John Clarkson Jay
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Laura Prime Jay
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Civil War letter from David's Island New Rochelle