To John Jay from Henry Glen, 20 December 1800
From Henry Glen
City of Washington 20th. Decr. 1800/Saturday Night
Dear Sir
On Thursday last the President sent up to the Senate A nomination for you to be the Chief Justice of the United States in the Room of Judge Ellsworth Resigned, yesterday the Senate took up the nomination And have appointed you the Chief Justice,1 My dear Sir Great Alteration since the last Election for Legislature in our State. Jefferson & Burr will be our Presidents who would Ever a thought it all the heads of the Departments will Go out of Office And new Ones Put in2
The Treaty has been takeing up by the Senate But not Confirmed as yet I have not been able to Get a Copy3 I sent you a day or two ago a few of the Articles Given to me by One of the Senate.4 The Moment its in Print I shall Send you One5 I am Dear Sir, yours Sincerely
H Glen
His Excellency/John Jay Esqr.
ALS, NNC (EJ: 08684). Henry Glen of Schenectady, represented New York’s Seventh District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
1. For JJ’s appointment as chief justice, see JA to JJ, 19 Dec., and the editorial note “Jay Declines a Second Appointment as Chief Justice,” both above.
2. For Republican political gains, see the editorial note “Republican Ascendancy in 1800,” above.
3. Treaty of Mortefontaine.
4. Articles not found.
5. For the publication of the treaty, see Columbian Centinel (Boston), 20 Dec. 1800, and other newspapers, and Convention between the French Republic and the United States of America, signed at Paris, September 3d. 1800, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the two nations ([Salem, 1800]; Early Am. Imprints, series 1, 38726). No record exists of Glen sending JJ a printed copy of the treaty.