John Jay - Property

Property

As an adult, John Jay built Bedford House, located near Katonah, New York. It is preserved as a National Historic Landmark and as the John Jay Homestead State Historic Site.

He had grown up from the age of three months in Rye, in a house built by his father Peter Jay in 1745 that overlooked Long Island Sound. The younger Jay did not inherit this property until 1815, by when he had long since established himself at Katonah. He conveyed the Rye property to his eldest son, Peter Augustus Jay, in 1822. This property remained in the Jay family through 1904.

What remains of the original 400-acre (1.6 km2) estate is a 23-acre (93,000 m2) parcel called the Jay Property, and the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House, built by Peter Augustus Jay over the footprint of his grandfather's original home, "The Locusts." Stewardship of the site and restoration of several of its buildings for educational use was entrusted by the New York State Board of Regents to the Jay Heritage Center.

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