To John Jay from Philip Schuyler, 29 June 1792
From Philip Schuyler
Albany Friday June 29th 1792
Dear Sir
We have been advised that You are to dine at Lansinghburgh to morrow,— and have taken measures to ascertain. If confirmed a very respectable number of the Citizens have deputed Eight or ten Gentlemen to meet you at Marshals ferry, and to Conduct you thro the City, to my house where you will be so good as to Accept a bed.—
We wish If possible that you could be at the Ferry at Six o Clock1 I am My Dear Sir Yours very truly &ca—
Ph: Schuyler
ALS, NNC (EJ: 07130). Addressed: “To the / Honorable John Jay Esqr. &c / at/Lansingburgh”. Endorsed.
1. See the address of the Lansingburgh committee and JJ’s reply, 30 June, below. For a description datelined Albany, 2 July, of JJ’s escort from Lansingburgh to “the seat of General Schuyler, where the whole company were most hospitably and politely regaled”, see the Federal Gazette (Philadelphia), 7 July 1792. In the same issue was a report datelined Litchfield, 29 June, asserting that “Expresses have actually been dispatched to Mr. Jay, in Vermont, to obtain information of the precise time of his return to New York: as several thousand of his most zealous friends are determined to honor and escort him, as Governor of the State of New-York. Such a procedure, should it not be in the power of Mr. Jay to discourage it, will probably, at least, produce broken bones and battered noses.”