A map of a piece of ground [sold] by [Mr] James Jay to John van Blarcorn Junr. / surveyed by Charles Loss ; [copied by] George Gibbs. [ca. 1845]

Jay, John, 1745-1829

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John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father, abolitionist, negotiator, and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States. He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and...

Loss, Charles

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Gibbs, George, 1815-1873

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George Gibbs, a New York lawyer, joined the Regiment of Mounted Rifles in 1849, went to Fort Vancouver, Washington, and remained in the Pacific Northwest for the next eleven years. During that time he held a number of positions, including that of an ethnologist and geologist with the Northern Pacific segment of the U.S. Army railroad survey from 1853 to 1855, and the Northwest boundary survey of the Northwest Boundary Commission from 1857 to 1860. He wrote numerous works on Indian languages and ...

Van Blarcorn, John.

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Jay, James, Sir, 1732-1815

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Physician of New York, brother of Governor John Jay. From the description of Note, 1789, July 29 : Closter, New Jersey, to Stewart and Jones, New York. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35093223 James Jay, elder brother of John Jay, was a physician and politician, who supplied medicines to George Washington and developed an invisible ink used by Washington and members of the Culper Spy Ring. From the description of Letter, 1808 January 9: Washington, D.C., ...