Excerpt from The Funeral Sermons Preached in St. Bartholomew's, New-York, by Rev. Samuel Cooke, Rector: On the 23d and 24th Sundays After Trinity, Following the Death of Miss. Jay, on 13th of November, and of Her Sister, Mrs. Banyer, on the 21st of the Same Month, to Which Is Prefixed a Short Biographical Memoir With the Spanish birthright of the eldest daughter there were certainly no ancestral sympathies in the mind of her father - but with the birth of the younger in the home of the Huguenots, a home from which his ancestors had been driven into exile, just a century before, this awakened, as appears from his family letters, many associations, among them it may be, a deeper watchfulness of a government that had once proved itself so treacherous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.