"The burden of time I have not experienced"
"He was up at dawn, in the saddle before breakfast on a horse whose grandmother his father had given him in 1765 and whose mother he then rode. Outdoors most of the day, he supervised improvements, crops, and cider-, grist-, and saw-mills. He presided over morning and evening worship with his family and servants, and carefully annotated his prayer book with the appropriate prayers for specific days. He expanded his landholdings to about 750 acres and corresponded with British agricultural innovators on advances in scientific farming. He rarely commented on politics or visited New York City, once letting eight years pass without a trip to town. 'A stranger might have resided with him for months together, without discovering from his conversation that he had ever been employed in the service of his country,' writes William, who came to live with him in the house at Bedford in 1809,raised six children there, and helped his father turn the farm into a profitable dairy operation, while also founding the Bible Society and becoming a prominent abolitionist."
Myron Magnet has an excellent profile of John Jay at City Journal.
Myron Magnet has an excellent profile of John Jay at City Journal.
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