1To John Jay from John Lansing Jr., Egbert Benson, James Kent, and Jacob Radcliff, 26 March 1801 (Jay Papers)
WE have the honor of your Excellency’s letter of the 18th inst. directed to the Chancellor, and to the Chief Justice and the other Judges of the Supreme Court, requesting their sentiments on the question therein stated by your Excellency, unless a mode of having it judicially determined should occur to them, and in that case that they would indicate it. No mode occurs to us, to be adopted by...
2To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 19 May 1807 (Jay Papers)
I never meant to repeat from You a Sentiment so unfit as that whatever might be the Pretensions, or Worth, or Competency, of the Individual, or whatever Changes might take place in the Community, still his being nominated by the Party, known as the Clintonian, would itself be decisive with You to forbear voting for him— On the contrary I took it for granted that what You did say had reference...
3To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 4 January [1805] (Jay Papers)
I should not acquit myself to You, certainly not to my own Convictions and Feelings, if I was not to let You know Your Freinds here regret Your not subscribing to the Hamilton Loan— The Subscription-List is to be annexed to the ^Conveyance from the^ Executors to the Trustees of the Loan, Morris King, Wolcott, Wilkes, and myself, and consequently will go on the public Records of our Country,...
4To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 23 December 1778 (Jay Papers)
I embrace this Opportunity by M r : Sands of writing to You with respect to a Matter which I conceive extremely important and interesting— In Loudon’s last Paper we have M r . Deane’s Letter to the Public, which, as it is extracted from the Philadelphia Gasette You have undoubtedly seen— Altho I sincerely lament the Occasion which rendered this Publication necessary, yet from other...
5To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 30 September 1781 (Jay Papers)
You will observe I have deferred my Letter til the last day of the Month, in hopes that I should have had it in my Power to communicate Intelligence as agreeable as it would have been important— (When I wrote last Gen l : Washington with the Allied Army was in the lower part of West Chester County, waiting, as it was generally supposed, the Arrival of the French Fleet from the West Indies in...
6To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 25 April 1783 (Jay Papers)
You doubtless, my Friend will be surprized to receive a Letter from Me dated at this Place— I am here on an Errand from the State to the Delegates, too extensive to be the Subject of a Letter, and not proper to be entrusted to Paper— I sincerely congratulate You on a Peace— It is almost a Consummation of all my Wishes, and gives general Satisfaction here— A few Years of Wisdom and Virtue are...
7To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 23 June 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have frequently of late determined to write to You and have been as often interrupted; indeed this disagreeable Business, in which I am engaged, tho’ it is not sufficient to furnish Me with constant Employment yet is of ^ such ^ a Nature as to leave Me scarce a Moment which I can call my own or in which I am free from Interruption. We were flattered that when our Government was established...
8To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 6 July 1779 (Jay Papers)
Since I had the Pleasure of writing to You last the Committee of Congress have returned from Vermont, and they passed thro’ this place when I happened unfortunately not to be at home— Altho I have not had an Opportunity to converse with them yet from what has been communicated to Me by the Governor and the Papers which I have seen, their Embassy has not been productive of the Good I both...
9To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 19 March 1777 (Jay Papers)
We have this day wrote to Convention that Persons going to New York might be prohibited from taking all their Apparel and Furniture and you doubtless will hear the Letter read— We have not subjoined our Reasons as We proposed only to suggest the Matter and leave it entirely to be determined by Convention as they shall think best without an Attempt to influence their Judgment; It appeared...
10To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 4 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have stolen a Moment from the Business of the House to write You by M r : Phelps, who is dispatched some Hours sooner than I was apprised of or I should have wrote You more fully— He is the Bearer of our peremptory Instructions to the Delegates relative to the Affair of Vermont— This Business I must entreat Your utmost Endeavers to dispatch, for You will observe We are to continue sitting...