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From John Jay to Timothy Pickering, 27 November 1798

To Timothy Pickering

Albany 27 Nov. 1798

Sir,

I take the Liberty of requesting the favor of you to give the enclosed Letter to Mr. King, a place among your next Dispatches to him; it contains a Copy of one I wrote to him in September last, authorizing and requesting him to purchase three thousand musquets and Bayonets for this State—1

Accept my thanks for the interesting Pamphlet you was so obliging as to send me.2 The Fate of Geneva affords a useful Lesson to other States, and admonishes us to guard against foreign Influence and Interference with the utmost Circumspection.

Attempts will certainly be made to abate our Vigilance, and relax our Exertions, by political opiates: and I am not without apprehensions, that our Credulity may endanger our Safety, notwithstanding what we and other nations have experienced. The French can give us only one, and that perhaps a precarious, proof of the Sincerity of their pacific Professions, vizt. a speedy honorable and conclusive Settlement of existing Differences— With great Respect and Esteem I am Sir your most obedt. Servt.

John Jay

The Honb. Timothy Pickering Esqr.

ALS, MHi: Pickering (EJ: 04793). Endorsed: “… Chauvets pamphlet / The French”. LbkC, N: Governor’s Lbk. 1 (EJ: 03191).

1. JJ to RK, 30 Sept. 1798, ALS, NHi: King (EJ: 00705); LbkC, N: Governor’s Lbk. 1 (EJ: 03171); copy found in RK to Joseph Pitcairn, 18 Dec. 1798, ALS; OCHP: Pitcairn (EJ: 01534); RK’s reply of 7 Dec. 1798, ALS, NNC (EJ: 06701); C, NHi: King (EJ: 00877); C, NNC (EJ: 08630); copy located in RK to Pitcairn, 18 Dec. 1798, ALS, OCHP: Pitcairn (EJ: 01534). See also the editorial note “Defending New York,” above.

2. David Chauvet, The conduct of the Government of France towards the Republic of Geneva. Translated from the French. By a citizen of Trenton (Trenton, 1798; Early Am. Imprints description begins Early American Imprints, series 1: Evans, 1639–1800 [microform; digital collection], edited by American Antiquarian Society, published by Readex, a division of News-bank, Inc. Accessed: Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 2006–19, http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ Early American Imprints, series 2: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801–1819 [microform; digital collection], edited by American Antiquarian Society, published by Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc. Accessed: Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 2006–19, http://infoweb.newsbank.com/ description ends , series 1, no. 33510).

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    “From John Jay to Timothy Pickering, 27 November 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jay/01-06-02-0361. [Original source: The Selected Papers of John Jay, vol. 6, 1794–1798, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020, pp. 710–711.]

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