1Peter Augustus Jay to James Fenimore Cooper, 29 May 1829 (Jay Papers)
My good old father has paid the debt of nature. He died on the 17th. ins t . I need not tell you how much he was loved and venerated by his children. His departure was attended by every circumstance which can lighten affliction for such a loss. Yet the separation is very painful and I am not yet in a mood to write with levity. William will continue to reside at Bedford; the Estate there is...