Inclosed is a Letter which was sent to me, two Days ago, by M r . Samuel Nicoll, who lately returned from England to New-York. He informs me that “it contains mercantile Matters of some Consequence tho of an old Date.” M r . Nicoll is a Brother of your old Acquaintance, Ned Nicoll, & went to Edingburgh, in the Beginning of the War, to perfect himself in the Knowlege of Physick. The more I...
2From John Jay to Robert Troup, 2 May 1792 (Jay Papers)
The last post brought me your very friendly Letter of the 26 of last Month— I thank ^you^ it for it cordially— The Doctor s ^Ramsay’s^ Silence began to appear singular to me— The Paragraph you insert from his Letter together with the Bills he has transmitted to you are agreable Circumstances— when you learn that they are accepted be so good as to inform me of it— The Interest you take in this...
3From John Jay to Robert Troup, 25 May 1792 (Jay Papers)
Since my last to you of the Inst. I have been fav[ore] d . with your friendly one of the 13 th . — Appearances my good Friend are so often at Variance with Realities, that my Expectations from the former are seldom sanguine. on the present occasion appearances are doubtless promising, especially as you have Reason to think the Calculations in question were cautiously made according to y r...
4From John Jay to Cornelius Ray, Robert Troup, Richard Harison, Archibald Gracie, James Watson, William W. Woolsey, and … (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . the Letter w h you did me the Honor to write on the 15 th . Inst enclosing a Copy of a Resolution of the Federal Freeholders of the City of NYork of the 13 Instant. Permit me thru’ you to assure them of the high Sense I entertain of the honor they have done me by the Sentiments, respecting Services, which are expressed in that Resolution; and be pleased Gent n . to accept my...
5From John Jay to Robert Troup, 28 December 1799 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with your’s of the 23 Inst: and with the one mentioned in it. The subject of them both is indeed an affecting one. I perfectly concur in the sentiment, that we should transmit to posterity the most honourable Proofs of the veneration in which we hold the character and memory of that singularly virtuous and great man, whose Death we lament. The idea of the corporation...