![]() ![]() During his childhood and teen years, Jay was alternately homeschooled by his mother or outside tutors. In March 1745, the family moved to Rye, New York, when Jay’s father retired from business to care for two of the family’s children who had been blinded by smallpox. ![]() Jay’s father, Peter Jay, prospered as a commodities trader, and he and Mary Jay (née Van Cortlandt) had seven surviving children together.
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