Posted on 02/08/2010 12:37:57 AM PST by neverdem
Few could fathom why 55-year-old John Jay turned down President Adamss nomination to rejoin the Supreme Court when his two terms as New Yorks governor ended. What would lead him, in the hale prime of life, to retire instead to the plain yellow house hed just built on a hilltop at the remote northern edge of Westchester County, two days ride from Manhattan, where visitors were few and the mail and newspapers came but once a week? After 27 years at the forge of the new nations founding, why would so lavishly talented a man give up his vital role on the world stage for the quiet life of a gentleman farmer?...
(Excerpt) Read more at city-journal.org ...
Columbia Ping needed.
Wonderful how so many of our Founding Fathers, Hamilton, Livingston and Jay were students at small King’s College and remained friends throughout their lives.
My high school years were in the 70s, and we only had the basic studies even in what was considered one of the better school systems in Florida. The available biographies were of the most simplistic type in the school library, but they still gave one an idea of the people who started America. That was my self-study, because I was never very good at learning dates.
I’ll ping wehen I get home.
PS. Myron Magnet went to Columbia.
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Nice one! Great find!After 27 years at the forge of the new nation's founding, why would so lavishly talented a man give up his vital role on the world stage for the quiet life of a gentleman farmer?Probably disgusted over the failure of Congress to vote in universal health care and embrace shariah law. ;') Thanks neverdem. |
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Wonderful article. Read it though to the end.
Couldn’t stop.
BFL, btw.
Cheers!
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Thanks for the ping!
BUMP for later reading...
Thanks, neverdem, for the post and ping...lots of terrific material in this.
The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...
Thank you, rm.
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Oh! my dr. Mr. Jay, Sally wrote, when all the kids had fevers, shd. you too be unwell & absent from me, & I deprived of the satisfaction & consolation of attending you how wretched I shd. be!
What a Lady, Mrs. Jay.
What a remarkable man. The Founders did not enrich themselves from the public trough or use their fame to build a personal fortune, unlike so many in our time. They wanted nothing more than to give of themselves to build a free, strong and great country. Their highest calling seems to have been to be a citizen of this country.
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Thank you !! I downloaded after getting roughly 1/3 way through. Seems we’ll have a few more snow days here in VA to complete the reading.
I grew up on the ‘outer fringes’ of Westchester (not quite so outer when I lived there, of course). The local school was named for local patriot John Jay. Ultimately he came to disfavor among certain of his peers and contemporaries, so not that much has been written about him, so this will be a fun exercise.
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