1To John Jay from George Bascome, 5 April 1779 (Jay Papers)
On the Score of the Acquaintance which I had the Honor some Years past, during my Residence at New York, to have with you, I take the Liberty to solicit your Attention to the Application now about to be made to the Honorable the Congress of the American States, through you as President thereof, for the Necessaries of Life.— On its Success depend the Lives of near fifteen Thousand People. And...