" Protesters declared "damn everyone that won't put lights in his windows and sit up all night damning [this man]!"
This man's son, Peter, built a house over his father's childhood home, which was known as "The Locusts." He was fond of the observation that "those who own the country ought to govern it." This man signed a gradual emancipation law after he succeeded George Clinton as Governor of New York. The final Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the Articles of Confederation, this man turned down a Cabinet spot to accept a post George Washington called "the keystone of our political fabric." Protesters declared "damn everyone that won't put lights in his windows and sit up all night damning [this man]!" He was the namesake of an unpopular 1795 treaty that granted the U.S. "most favored nation" status with Great Britain. For 10 points, name this first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
This man's son, Peter, built a house over his father's childhood home, which was known as "The Locusts."
John Jay &lt;Cheyne&gt;