Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Jay” in chapter 36 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition.:

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The revolution Emanates from the people. The motion of Jay was for many days the subject of private and earnest discussion; but the temper of the congress was still irresolute, when on the eighteenth of May they received the news of the taking of Ticonderog...
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Entity Corpus Doc Corpus Doc  
John Jay 558 44 4 0 0 user votes
Jay 214 0 8 0 0 user votes
William Jay 137 0 3 0 0 user votes
C. W. Jay 12 0 0 0 0 user votes
A. Jay 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
T. Jay 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
William H. M. Jay 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
— Jay 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
E. Jay 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
W. P. Jay 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Peter Jay 1 0 1 0 0 user votes

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