Peter Jay Munro

Peter Jay Munro (January 10, 1767 – September 22, 1833) was an American lawyer and Federalist politician from New York.

His father was the rector of St. Peter's Church in Albany who was forced to flee America in 1778 and return to his native land, Scotland (where he died in 1801), because he was considered a loyalist.

[5] His maternal uncle was Founding Father John Jay, who was the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States.

The estate was sold to shipping magnate Edward Knight Collins in 1845 who called it Larchmont.

[1] Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of five grandsons and three granddaughters, including Edward Floyd DeLancey, president of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.