To John Jay from Frederick Jay, [17 August 1786]
From Frederick Jay
[New York, 17 August] Thursday Evg 8 OClock [1786]
Dear Sir
A vessell bound from the Havana to Europe is just arrived here in distress—1 Lynch & Co.2 will have the management of the business. I have applyed to them to sell the damaged part of the Cargoe—they inform me that they are to be directed—I suppose by Mr. Gardoqui. if you can (& the sooner the better) give Mr. Gardoqui a hint of my application, I make no doubt but he’ll recommend me to Lynch & Stoughton—I have a very bad cold or would have called on you myself this Evg—Yours
Fr. Jay
ALS, NNC. Addressed: “Honble. John Jay Esqr.” Endorsed.
1. Loudon’s New-York Packet of 21 Aug. 1786 reported the arrival at New York in distress “on Thursday last” of the Spanish snow, St. Francisco de Paulo, Captain Pablo Vidal, bound from Havana to Cadiz. The vessel had been attacked and plundered by pirates in the Bahama Straits. See also the Pennsylvania Mercury, and the Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, both 25 Aug.
2. Lynch & Stoughton was a prominent New York firm that dealt in Spanish goods. See Daily Advertiser (New York), 2 Jan. 1786; Noah Webster, ed., The New York Directory for 1786 (reprint ed.; New York, n.d.), 91. See also 34: 34 (11 Feb. 1788), for its petition for a sea letter.