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[JAY, John (1745-1829) and William LIVINGSTON (1723-1790), ...
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[JAY, John (1745-1829) and William LIVINGSTON (1723-1790), their copy]. MOORE, Francis, Sir (1558-1621). Cases Collect & Report. London: R. Norton for Robert Pawlet, 1663. Small folio (273 x 177 mm). (Browning and offsetting throughout, title-page shaved close to border, partially affecting Jay’s signature). Modern quarter morocco. Provenance: William Livingston (his ownership signature on title-page); John Jay (his ownership signature on title-page, crossed out and partially trimmed); Peter Augustus Jay (1776-1843) gifted to New York Law Institute (gift inscription on title-page, several Library stamps on title-page and preface); contemporary marginalia, possibly from Jay or Livingston. FROM THE LIBRARY OF TWO FOUNDING FATHERS WITH AN IMPORTANT ASSOCIATION. Jay, the first chief justice of the United States and a signatory of the Treaty of Paris, married into the prominent New York Livingston family in 1774. On 28 April, Jay wed Sarah Livingston, the eldest daughter of the first New Jersey Governor and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, William Livingston.
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