Manufacturing Company, and universally popular in business and social circles; Mary P., wife of Samuel K. Satterlee, of Rye; and Anna Evelyn, wife of Dr. Arthur F. Bissell, of New York City.

William Jay,' second son of the Hon. John Jay, filled the intervening term between Judge Tompkins' two terms-that is, from 1820 to 1823. Judge Jay was born at New York June 16, 1789. His early education, which was conducted under the care of his father, was finished at Yale College, where he graduated in 1808. Adopting the profession of the law, he speedily became prominent in its practice, and in 1818 was appointed by Governor Tompkins judge of the County Court of Westchester. This office he held with honor to himself, and to the credit of the community of which he formed a part, until 1842, when he was relieved from the position by Governor Bouck, in compliance with the demand of that portion of the Democratic party whose sympathies were with the South and slavery, and on account of his plainly expressed views in favor of Abolition. From his earliest years he seemed destined to be a life-long defender of the right and a stern opponent of wrong, in whatever shape they appeared. As early as 1815 he was the means of organizing a temperance society, one of the first in the country, which, at the time, seemed likely to be overwhelmed with intemperance and its accompanying evils. He was one of the founders of the American Bible Society, and till the close of his life was one of the ablest and most devoted supporters of the institution, which has printed the word of God in almost every known language, and distributed it freely in every clime.

When the evils of slavery began to be one of the vital questions of the time, the cause of human freedom found in Judge Jay an enthusiastic advocate. In 1826 there was living in this county a freeman of color named Horton. Going to the city of Washington, he was there arrested as a fugitive slave and advertised for sale, to pay the expenses of his arrest and imprisonment. Providentially, a copy of the newspaper containing the advertisement came into the hands of Judge Jay, and he made application to Governor De Witt Clinton to demand his release as a free citizen of the State of New York. This was one of the first events in the history of the great struggle against slavery, which ended only when battle-fields had been stained with the blood of its supporters. Throughout this long contest Judge Jay was ever active with tongue and pen in behalf of liberty. In 1835 an effort was made by the slavery power, through President Jackson, to prevent the circulation of Abolitionist documents by means of the United States mails. This effort, so repugnant to the principles upon which our government was founded, was met by the American Anti-Slavery Society with a dignified and earnest reply, which was written by

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Judge Jay, and was one of his ablest efforts. When the Legislature seemed about to pass laws intended to crush the efforts of the Abolitionists, by prohibiting the publication and circulation of Anti-Slavery documents, he charged the grand jury of the county that any laws tending to prevent freedom of speech or of the press were null and void. The official manifesto of the American Anti-Slavery Society was also written by him, and was signed by men whose names are now famous in history.

After being relieved from the office of judge he went to Europe, extended his travels to Egypt, and made a careful examination of the institution of slavery as it existed there. A firm believer that the time would come when men should "beat their swords into plowshares," and "learn war no more," he became president of the American Peace Society, and published a work, "War and Peace-the evils of the first, with plans of preserving the last." This book led to the famous protocol adopted by the Congress of Paris after the Crimean War, the first united international effort to have arbitration take the place of war. In 1833 he published the life and writings of his father, the chief justice.

Judge Jay was an able writer and possessed reasoning powers of the highest order. The works which he published were forty-three in number, and to analyze them would require a volume. It is sufficient to say that all, without exception, were devoted to the elevation of society, by the removal of the evils which retard its progress. His useful and eventful life ended October 14, 1858. This event caused heartfelt grief among all who realized the value of the friend of humanity. The various societies of which he was a member paid tributes of respect to his memory, and Frederick Douglas, as the fit representative of the race for whose freedom he had labored so long and so well, delivered an eloquent and fitting eulogy. It was his fortune, like that of many others who have labored in a noble cause, not to be permitted to see the result of his labors. The end of slavery, for which he toiled so long, came not till years after he had passed away, and was accomplished by means of which he never dreamed. But of all the names that grace the list of the friends of humanity and freedom, none deserves a higher place than that of William Jay.

His portrait is placed over the bench in the county court-house at White Plains, in grateful and appropriate recognition of the illustrious position which the name of Jay holds in the annals of Westchester jurisprudence. After Judge William Jay left the bench, in 1823, Judge Caleb Tompkins was re-appointed to the position of first judge, which he held up to 1846, when he died.

George Case, of New Rochelle, a side-judge of the Common Pleas and General Sessions of the county, during the last two years of Judge Tompkins' life, often presided as first judge in his absence. It is said that