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John Jay and Henry Knox to the Board of Treasury, 1 February 1788

John Jay and Henry Knoxt to the Board of Treasury
(Arthur Lee, Walter Livingston, and Samuel Osgood)

New York 1st. February 1788

Gentlemen

We have hired for a Year the new House of the honorable Walter Livingston Esquire in the Broad way,1 for the Offices of foreign affairs and of War, at the rate of £250 and the Taxes. As we shall not have occasion for all the Rooms, it may perhaps be convenient to you to place one or more of the Officers within your Department in the supernumerary ones. We have the honor to be &ca.

(signed) John Jay
H. Knox

LbkC, DNA: Domestic Letters description begins Domestic Letters of the Department of State, 1784–1906, RG59, item 120, National Archives (M40). Accessed on Fold3.com. description ends , 3: 316 (EJ: 2223).

1. Livingston’s residence was at 95 Broadway. David C. Franks, The New-York-Directory (New York, 1787), 23 (Early Am. Imprints, description begins Early American Imprints, series 1: Evans, 1639–1800 [microform; digital collection], edited by American Antiquarian Society, published by Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc. Accessed: Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 2006–13, http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ description ends no. 20369).

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    John Jay and Henry Knox to the Board of Treasury, 1 February 1788
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    1 February 1788

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    “John Jay and Henry Knox to the Board of Treasury, 1 February 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-04-02-0305. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 4, 1785–1788, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, p. 644.]