1To George Washington from John R. Livingston, 26 May 1789 (Washington Papers)
Where great services have been performed, or where great talents are centered, a confidence is seldom wanting to make application for employment; but as it would be boasting to pretend either to one or the other, it is with diffidence I now address your Excellency upon this subject For when I compare a few years services with the late Presidents of Congress to the many arduous and difficult...
2To James Madison from Isaac Clason and John R. Livingston, 12 May 1801 (Madison Papers)
We beg leave to inclose to you by chancellor Livingston a Copy of a Protest and Condemnation of a ship called the Nancy, Howard Allen Master, Captur’d on her voyage from Calcutta to New York in the month of December last by two Privateers from Guadeloupe and carried into St. Martins. As this Ship and Cargo was extremely Valuable having been insur’d at $175000 and as the late Treaty provides...
3To James Madison from John R. Livingston, 26 February 1802 (Madison Papers)
In addition to my Letters laid before you by Messrs. Mitchel & VanNess I beg leave to communicate to you an extract of a Letter received a few days since from a most respectable source. This extract will shew that however just the American claim may be yet that little probability exists of their demands being complyed with by the french—and that even those affecting the late Treaty will share...
4To James Madison from John R. Livingston, 29 October 1804 (Madison Papers)
Letter not found. 29 October 1804. Acknowledged in JM to Livingston, 5 Nov. 1804 , as complaining that a draft drawn on the amount due Livingston for a claim against Great Britain under the Jay treaty had been protested. In 1971 this document was in DNA: RG 76, Preliminary Inventory 177, entry 180, Great Britain, Treaty of 1794 [Art. VII], British Spoliations, 1794–1824. In 2006 it could not...
5To James Madison from John R. Livingston, 3 December 1805 (Madison Papers)
I have the honor to enclose you sundry documents to prove that the £54 Stg. exclusive of Int. did not belong to Captain Miller or was ever considered by the Commissioners as his. If an attention is paid to the Freight of one box of Cambricks and Two bales of Britania you will find that Clarkson & Cross have their names mentioned and the Sum of £3. charged on their Goods and Creditted to the...
6To James Madison from John R. Livingston, 29 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ From John R. Livingston. 29 December 1805, New York. “I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency the proceedings of the Court of Vice Admiralty at Bermuda [not found] which will elucidate the Award of the Commissioners respecting the Adventure of Clarkson & Cross on Board the Ship Somerset—As these papers do not appertaine to me I could wish their return as soon as the necessary Use...