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From John Jay to Alexander Hamilton, 26 August 1800

To Alexander Hamilton

Albany 26 Augt. 1800

Dr Sir

Yesterday I recd. and answd. yours of the 19 Instant.1 I have found a Copy of the Instructions, made by Wm. T. Franklin who was our Secy—2 They contain the following, verbatim—vizt.

“You are to make the most candid and confidential Communications upon all Subjects to the Ministers of our generous ally the King of France, to undertake nothing in the Negociations for peace or Truce without their Knowledge and Concurrence, and ultimately to govern yourselves by their advice and opinion.”3

I have not yet found the Letter— Yours

John Jay

Majr. Genl. Hamilton

ALS, DLC: Hamilton (EJ: 10796). DftS, with JJ to AH, 25 Aug., NNC (EJ: 05653); PAH, 25: 91.

1. See AH to JJ, 19 Aug. 1800, above.

2. William Temple Franklin, Benjamin Franklin’s grandson, was appointed on 1 Oct. 1782, to serve as the secretary to the American peace commission that negotiated the Treaty of Paris. See JJ to Samuel Huntington, 21 Apr. 1781, JJSP description begins Elizabeth M. Nuxoll et al., eds., The Selected Papers of John Jay (6 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2010–) description ends , 2: 432n11.

3. This passage appears in Instructions of the Continental Congress to the Ministers Plenipotentiary to Negotiate a Treaty of Peace, [15 June 1781], JJSP description begins Elizabeth M. Nuxoll et al., eds., The Selected Papers of John Jay (6 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2010–) description ends , 2: 469–71.

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    “From John Jay to Alexander Hamilton, 26 August 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-07-02-0058. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 7, 1799–1829, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, p. 100.]

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