This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YRB.2ACE/971.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: The Call family is fairly prominent in the local history around Jay, and you can easily find (probably already have) other Call family researchers. I have never run across a Jay family, so my apologies. John Jay was the governor when Jay was created in 1798, and an 1885 History of Essex County notes that as the source of the name. Among the earliest families were Purmort and Mallory, followed by the Rogers family in the iron business.