1To John Jay from Maria Jay Banyer, 19 February 1816 (Jay Papers)
William Pitt Beers to
2To John Jay from William P. Beers, 2 April 1807 (Jay Papers)
William Pitt Beers (1766–1810), Connecticut-born Albany lawyer, son-in-law of Jonathan Sturges, associate chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Beers was a friend of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale College, who stayed with Beers on his trip to Whitestown in 1799. Dwight described him as an “able, worthy, and useful man… Few men better understood the political interests of this...
3To John Jay from Philip Schuyler, 11 November 1796 (Jay Papers)
William Pitt Beers (1766–1810), an attorney of Albany, was married to Ann Sturges Beers (1765–1837), the daughter of Jonathan Sturges (1740–1819), an attorney, jurist, and politician from Fairfield, Connecticut.
4To John Jay from John Dalrymple, 1 February 1795 (Jay Papers)
...I therefore offered to communicate my Arts to him and to teach him to make the Articles from the Yeast with his own hands The Articles were spirits from corn Spirits ^and^ from Molasses or Sugar, Worts, small beer, Seamen’s beer, Strong Beer, With regard to beer, a Quarter of Malt or half a Quarter
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 11 January 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...be invited to a dinner of three persons. The prince came by chance and made the fourth. He eat half a leg of mutton, did not taste of small dishes, because small, drank Champagne and Burgundy as small beer during dinner, and Bordeaux after dinner as the rest of the company. Upon the whole, he eat as much as the other three, and drank about two bottles of wine without seeming to feel it. My
6To John Jay from Matthew Ridley, 6 December 1787 (Jay Papers)
This will be delivered you by Captain Simon White of this Town, who carries with him two half Barrells of Strong Beer for your Own Use & two others for Governor Livingston which I beg the Favor of you to forward by a ...it will draw good to the last—Should You find it grow Vapid, put what may be left in Bottles—It savors of Presumption to send Beer from Baltimore to New York—But... ...of Beer...
7To John Jay from Oliver Pollock, 3 June 1785, enclosing State of the Military and Naval Forces of Cuba (Jay Papers)
Potatoes, Codfish, Beer & Cyder, Masts, Yards,
8To John Jay from Peter Jay Munro, 16 October 1783 (Jay Papers)
Possibly a variation of “perrosin,” a concoction of pine resin, related to frankincense, and spruce beer that was used medically in plasters placed on the chest. Robley Dunglison,