Those Officers who fulfill their Duties in a manner highly satisfactory & useful do honor not only to themselves but to the Governm t . Convinced by repeated and concurring Accounts of the Zeal, Perseverance & Talents by which you have rendered most important services to our suffering fellow Citizens, during the late melancholy season, I think it my duty to express to you my Warmest...
2From John Jay to John Oothout, 4 October 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with yours of the 24. Ult. and should have written to you frequently had anything sufficiently interesting occurred. All accounts from New York represent the City as being in a Melancholy situation; and great credit is to those who like you and others are doing every thing in their power to mitigate the common calamity. Altho the Fever will probably cease before the middle...