Courthouses and Jails
Beaufort, Colleton, Fairfield, Sumter, Pendleton
South Carolina

After Jay was elected to the Board of Public Works in December 1819, the Board asked Jay to make standard designs/plans for courthouses and jails to be built. The buildings in Sumter, Fairfield, Colleton, Pendleton, Chester and, perhaps Beaufort, were, at least initially, constructed to plans attributable to Jay (Waddell & Liscombe) although altered or redesigned by Mills after 1820. Surviving drawings for the pre-Mills buildings do not bear Jay's signature or style, and may be by a different hand.