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From John Jay to Daniel Hale, 15 January 1799

To Daniel Hale

[Albany 15 Jan. 1799]

Sir

At the General Sessions of the peace held in and for the ^city and^ County of New York on the first Tuesday in June last, Elizabeth Murphy and Bella Bean1 were convicted of keeping a disorderly House and sentenced to pay a Fine of thirty Dollars each, and to be committed to Bridewell untill the same be paid—

Prepare a pardon for each of them2

John Jay

Secretary of the State

ALS, Harlan Crow Library. Addressed: “Danl. Hale Esqr / Secy of the State”. Endorsed, with incorrect year: “Directions to prepare / pardon for Elizabeth / Murphy & Bella / Bean Jany 15th 1798”.

Daniel Hale (d. 1821), Albany merchant and Federalist. Hale served as an officer in the war of independence. He held several state offices before serving as secretary of state from 1798 to 1801. See People of Colonial Albany http://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov//albany/bios/h/dahale8306.html.

1. Bean had previously been sentenced to one month of hard labor in Bridewell, the jail in New York City, in late 1796 for receiving stolen property. See Argus, Greenleaf’s New Daily Advertiser, Daily Advertiser, and Herald (all New York), 21 Dec. 1796.

2. For JJ’s use of pardons, see the editorial note “Crime and Punishment in Federalist New York,” JJSP description begins Elizabeth M. Nuxoll et al., eds., The Selected Papers of John Jay (6 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 2010–) description ends , 6: 472–80.

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    “From John Jay to Daniel Hale, 15 January 1799,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-07-02-0002. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 7, 1799–1829, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, pp. 2–3.]