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To secure the Liberties of the People and the legitimate Rights of their Government, against Encroachment and usurpation, it has from Experience been found necessary to divide the powers of Government into three distinct and independent Departments— aggregately considered, they possess all the power of Government; and are always in Capacity to defend their respective authorities against...
The overtures for Reconciliation which had taken place before left us were terminated by two Letters of which the comb following are Copies— here insert M r Livingstons Letter of the 16 th . Instant & mine in answer to it of the same Date It being proper that our Conduct should harmonize with Reconciliation, the sooner you make a Visit to M r . Livingston the better- He wants to purposes to...
FOR the reasons mentioned in it, I wrote the following letter to the Chancellor, and to the Chief Justice and other Judge of the Supreme Court, viz. [ Here Jay embedded a copy of his letter to the New York State Chancellor (Robert R. Livingston), Chief Justice (John Lansing Jr.), and Associate Justices of the New York State Supreme Court (Egbert Benson, James Kent, Morgan Lewis, and Jacob...
We left Albany last Wednesday near night— The next Day we Stopped for an hour at Oak Hill— You[r] Mama was not worse, but still very feeble. We arrived at Sinsing on Friday Morning, and last Evening came here, where we found every thing that we could expect had been done to accommodate us— Sam l . will take this Letter in the morning to Sinsing to put in the post office there. Inform your...
[ Bedford, New York, September 25, 1801. Letter not found. ] “List of Letters from Mr. Jay …” to H, Columbia University Libraries.
I take the Liberty of addressing you on a Subject w h . is not a little interesting to me— on leaving Albany I committed to the Rev d . M r Ellison the Care & Education of a Son whom I think a good & promising Boy, and who is now ab t . 13 Years old. That ^On that^ Gentleman’s Death he returned to me— I have tried to ^As was my wish to have him^ placed here in a proper Situation near
I had the pleasure of recieving by the last post your obliging Letter of the 4 th . Instant— The Explanations contained in it are perfectly satisfactory, and I thank You for the Information relative to M r Davis, and the Terms on which he would take my Son into his Family and prepare him for College— my Confidence in your Judgm t . and Candor induces me to rely on your Recommendation of that...
I ought to have written to you long ago, but a Series of Occurances have for two Years past, left me little Leisure for epistolary Correspondence— I allude to M rs . Jay’s long and painful Illness, and (when she appeared to be fast recovering) her unexpected Death— the Vicissitudes in my own Health— the Removal of my Family to this place, and the many things to be done for their Accommodation—...
In a Letter written you the 11 Ult. by the post, in answer to the one I had the pleasure of rec g . from you, I mentioned that in pursuance of y r . advice I sh d . send my Son to M r Davis, in the course of this month— If the Weather be fair he will set out Tomorrow, & I have directed him to wait upon you with this Letter. On this subject I can express no sentiments w h . will not occur to...
This Letter will be delivered to you by my Son W m ., whom agreable to President Dwights Recommendation and advice I commit to your Care. He has hitherto been so good a Boy as to render any Degree of Severity unnecessary,—even private and gentle admonitions have very rarely been requisite, & have in no Instance proved ineffectual. I regret that since the Death of the Rev d . M r Ellison,...