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the Supreme Court Bar, and principally graduates of King's Col¬
lege (Columbia), Yale, and the College of New Jersey (Prince¬
ton). With the coming of the Revolution, some dozen of them
espoused the Pattiot cause; tlie remainder took the Loyalist side.
 

Hardcn's King's Arms Tavern where the first mcctiiiir
of the Moot was held on November 23, 1770.

Consider some of the famous Patriots. William Livingston, first
president of the Moot, was shortly ro become Revolutionary war
governor of New Jersey. Within less than four years John Jay was
to become his son-in-law. Jay (King's College, A.B., 1764; A.M.,
1767), elected secretary of the .Moot in 1771, was to write New
York State's first Constitution, and was to be New York State's
first Chief Justice, aside ftom other state and national posts he
would hold. Anodicr member, Richard Morris, succeeded Jay as
New York's Chief Justice in 1779. John Morin Scott, a celebrated
radical politician and a highly successful lawyer, was to become a
brigadier-general in the Revolution. James Duane, who served as
a delegate to the C^ontinental Congress during the latter days of
rhe Moot, was tlie first mayor of New York City after the Btitish
army evacuated that post. Robert R. Livingston (King's College,
A.B., 1765; A.M., 1768), who for a time was Jay's law pattner.