361Notes on John Jay’s Conference with Floridablanca, 5 July 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r . Jay waited on the Count de Florida Blanca agreeable to an appointment; made by the latter to meet at his House at half-past eight this Evening. After the usual compliments, the bad News relative to the surrender of Charleston, just received, became the Topic of conversation. The Count mentioned the Channels through which he had received it, vizt: By an express despatched by the Spanish...
As a late and particular Letter from me to your Ex y is now on the way to America, and as I purpose to write again very fully by ^ the Successor of ^ M r . Millalle’s [Miralles], I decline saying much in this Letter which I shall send in ^ by ^ a circuitous and hazardous Route I have been permitted to accpt d Bills to the amount of
363From John Jay to Floridablanca, 11 July 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r Jay presents his respectful Complements to his Excellency the Count D FloridaBlanca, and has the Honor of informing him that Don Carlos Maria Marraci of this Place has presented to him for acceptance Bills amounting in the whole to 1665 Dollars. The Mess rs . Joyce consent to having their Bills payable at Bilboa, but have acquainted M r . Jay that the Name of the House there by whom they...
364From John Jay to George Clinton, 14 July 1780 (Jay Papers)
My last Letter to you was dated the 20: th June— I have written many & hope you have already rec d . several. None from you have as yet reached me— By the Journals of Congress I percieve that your Disputes with your Neighbors are in fair Way of being decided— I think M r Duane might have been a useful Counsellor to your other Delegates on that occasion, but I dont find his name among those...
365To John Adams from John Jay, 17 July 1780 (Adams Papers)
On the 4 June last I had the Pleasure of writing you a Letter acknowledging the Reciept of yours of the 15 May—since which none of your Favors have reached me. I have just been reading the Capitulation of Charles Town. I suspect they wanted Provisions. The Reputation of the Garrison will suffer till the Reasons of their Conduct are explained. I wish a good one may be in their Power. They are...
366To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 17 July 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress; AL (draft): Columbia University Library I have had the Pleasure of receiving your favours of the 13th. & 25th. of June last. After having recd. Part of the money lodged with marquis d’Yranda, I sent for another Part, not chusing to receive the whole at once, and intending to leave in his hands the Balance due to you. I recd. for Answer that I might receive the whole,...
367From John Jay to John Adams, 17 July 1780 (Jay Papers)
On the 4 June last I had the Pleasure of writing you a Letter acknowleging the Reciept of yours of the 15 May —since which none of your Favors have reached me. I have just been reading the Capitulation of Charles Town. I suspect they wanted Provisions. The Reputation of the Garrison will suffer till the Reasons of their Conduct are explained. I wish a good one may be in their Power. They are...
368From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 17 July 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have been honored with ^ had the Pleasure of rec g ^ your s Favors of the 13 th & 25 th : June last and am greatly obliged by the Communications they make. I refer ^ after having rec d
369From John Jay to John de Neufville & Son, 29 July 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your favor of the 13 th Ins t. was delivered to me last Evening— I admire the generous principles which lead you to take so decided & friendly a part in favor of America— I have too great confidence in the Honor; Justice & gratitude of Congress to Suspect that they will permit you to be sufferers by your Exertions in their favor— On the contrary I am persuaded they will entertain a proper...
370From John Jay to Floridablanca, 11 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r Jay presents his respectful Compliments to his Excellency the Count D’Florida Blanca, and has the Honor of informing him, that since the Date of his last, Bills to the Amount of six thousand six hundred Dollars, have been presented to him for acceptance. M r Jay has prevailed upon the Holders of these Bills, to wait six or Eight Days for his Answer, on a Promise that the Time for their...
371To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 16 August 1780 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Columbia University Library On the 17th. July I wrote a Letter enclosing Copies of several interesting Papers, by Count Montmorins Courier. This Conveyance appeared to me as direct & secure as any I could expect to meet with. I hope you have recd. this Letter. You will percieve from it my Situation, which is really such as to constrain me to repeat my Request for a further...
372From John Jay to Floridablanca, 16 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
The Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 12 th . Inst: was delivered to me Yesterday. The kind Concern you are pleased to express for the Delay, which suspends my recieving a positive Answer respecting the Bills, demands my Acknowledgements, and is an additional Proof of that generous Sensibility, which enduced your Excellency to tell me, “that your Friendship for...
373From John Jay to Floridablanca, 18 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
I never find myself more disagreably circumstanced, than when my Duty constrains me to be troublesome to those, to whom I wish to afford only Pleasure & Satisfaction. Such is my present Situation. Monday next I percieve is to be a critical Day. Other Bills, besides Mess rs . Joyes [Joyce], are then to be represented. M r . Gardoqui of Bilboa writes me that he has recieved Bills on me for...
374From John Jay to Francis Dana, 19 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of the 5 th . Inst was delivered to me Yesterday Morning. I am happy to hear M r Adams is gone to Holland. He will I am persuaded be very useful there. Accept my thanks for the Intelligence communicated in your Letter, and be so obliging as to continue the Correspondence you have begun. The Character I heard of you at Congress induced me to wish for an Occasion of commencing it, and...
375From John Jay to Floridablanca, 25 August 1780 (Jay Papers)
I arrived here this morning, but was prevented from immediately doing myself the Honor of paying my Respects to your Excellency, by fatigue & Indisposition. In a Letter I had the Honor of writing to your Excellency on the 16 th . Instant I mentioned that the holders of the Bills began to grow impatient. On the 18 th . Instant I informed your Excellency by another Letter, that their...
376Account of John Jay’s Conferences with Diego de Gardoqui and Bernardo del Campo, 3–4 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r . Gardoqui began the conversation by assurances of his personal attachment to our Cause and Country, which gave occasion to mutual, and complimentary Professions too unimportant to repeat. I told him that the Holders of the Bills, after having shewn me great forbearance and delicacy, were at length perfectly tired That the House of Casa Mayor had sent their Bills after me, but that as I...
377To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 8 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft): Columbia University Library; copy: Library of Congress My last to you went under Cover to Monsr. Grand from Madrid. I have not been favored with any Letters from you since the one inclosing a Letter of Credit in my Favor from Mr Grand to Marq. DYranda. Mr. Deane has been long arrived and I have not yet recd. a Line from him. I cannot account for this. Intelligence from Am. might...
378From John Jay to Floridablanca, 14 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
The information I received yesterday from your Excellency, by M r Gardoqui, has drawn the affair of the Bills of Exchange to a conclusion. He told me that the Exigencies of the State would not permit his Majesty to provide for the payment of more of those bills than were already accepted, amounting to about 14′000 dollars. As it is important that every Nation at war should know exactly the...
379From John Jay to Robert Morris, 16 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
Had I been ever so much disposed to be out of Humour with the Silence of my Friends I assure you it would all have given Way to the Pleasure with which I rec d . your Letter of the 6th July— Perhaps an opportunity may yet offer for settling a Cypher— I shall attempt it within this Month in a Way I think will succeed. M rs . Jay has more Health than she has enjoyed this long time—she is now at...
This letter and several copies of it are to be sent by the next Post to Bilboa, Cadiz, Nantes &c. The Object of it is to inform you that it is necessary immediately to cease drawing bills upon me—for the Present. Your Excellency may soon expect a full detail of Particulars from me, you will then receive an answer to every question that may be raised upon this letter. His Catholic Majesty has...
381From John Jay to Timothy Matlack, 17 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
Accept my Thanks for your Fav r of the 21 April, which was deliverd to me the 27 th August. Knowledge is essential to the Duration of Liberty and Pennsylvania is wise in making them both the Objects of public Care. I have read your Oration with great Pleasure. The Subject is a fine one— The Field large and considering the time allotted you ^ you have interspersed it with ^ useful Remarks &...
382From John Jay to Egbert Benson, 18 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have written many Letters to my Friends in the State of New York since I left America, but have not yet rec d . a single Line from any of them—is not this a little hard? Am I to suppose that all your Letters have miscarried, or that your Attention as ^ has been ^ too much engaged by Affairs at Home to extend to an old Friend abroad? Whatever is the Cause I assure you I regret it. Since ^...
383To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 22 September 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copies: Library of Congress, National Archives, Henry E. Huntington Library, Columbia University Library I have lately written to you several Letters. Enclosed is a Copy of one to Count de Vergennes, which Ct. de Montmorin, who also writes to him on the same Subject, is so obliging as to send together with this, by a Courier to bayonne. The Papers you have heretofore recd. from me, with those...
384From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 22 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have lately written to you several Letters. Enclosed is a Copy of one to Count de Vergennes, which Count Montmorin, who also writes to him on the same Subject, is so obliging as to send together with this, by a Courier to Bayonne. The papers you have heretofore received from me, with those now sent will enable you to understand it, and I am persuaded your Abilities, and Influence will be...
385From John Jay to Vergennes, 22 September 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have never taken up my pen with so much reluctance as I now do, altho my Design is to write a letter to your Excellency But Sir! there are few sensations more painful than those which They Experience; who already covered with Benefits, are impelled by cruel necessity to ask for more— Such is my present situation—and hence proceeds my regret. My uniform and unreserved communications to Count...
Notes of a Conference between His Excellency the Count De Florida Blanca and M r . Jay at S t . Ildefonso, on Saturday Evening the 23 d . September 1780. After the usual civilities, the Count began the Conference by informing M r . Jay that the Court had received Intelligence from the Havannah of Congress having so far complied with the request made them to permit the Exportation of Provisions...
387From John Jay to William Carmichael, 2 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . yours Le Guerre just now ^ this afternoon ^ gave me a Letter from you dated to Day enclosing a Bundle ^ parcel ^ of Bills which I dare say are right—those from of Nesbit and Williams I return en enclosed as you desire— As to the Residue of the Letter it w d
388From John Jay to Silas Deane, 2 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
Since mine to you written at ^ from ^ S t . Ildefonso & enclosed to Doct r Franklin, I have had the pleasure of reciev g yours of the 4 and 13 th . of Sept r . a few Days ago.
389From John Jay to John de Neufville & Son, 4 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have lately had the pleasure of receiving Your favor of the 7 th Sept r : after the Proofs You have given of disinterested Zeal, in the Cause of Liberty & America, I cannot harbour a doubt of Your opposing the measures of a Court industriously employed in attempts to destroy both— Your sentiments respecting the Expediency of a Connection between the United States and Your Republic, concur...
390To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 5 October 1780 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress Altho’ you have not informed me that you had recd. my Letter from St. Ildefonso, yet I find it has not only come safe to your Hands, but that Mr. Grand (to whom I wrote a few Lines by last Post) is actually engaged in obtaining the Object of it. I thank you for this in both the Capacities of American & Friend. How far the Responsibility of the King of Spain may be a...