Among the leading Patriot voices was the young Alexander Hamilton, a student of King's College whom Jay may have met at the Livingston house in Elizabethtown.
After arriving in New York during the winter of 1772, Hamilton began his studies at Elizabethtown Academy in New Jersey, a preparatory school on the grounds of a Presbyterian church, where he took courses in Latin, Greek, and mathematics.
On the 28th of April 1774, the 28-year-old Jay married the 17-year-old Sarah at her father's home in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where a young Alexander Hamilton had stayed a couple of years earlier after first arriving in North America.