11From John Jay to James Sullivan, 28 July 1797 (Jay Papers)
I have been favored with your’s of the 30 th . of last month, informing me of the necessity of my being at Boston on the 14 th . of august next, to give Testimony to the Commissioners appointed to determine what River was intended, by the River S t . Croix in the Treaty of Peace. If on further Consideration my personal attendance should be judged indispensable, I shall certainly think it my...
12From John Jay to John Vaughan, 31 July 1797 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with yours of the 11 th . Instant, in which you mention having rec d . from your Brother for me a Portrait of the late President, engraved from a painting of Stewart; and that You had sent it to the Care of M r . Constable— I have since rec d . it and am much obliged by this mark of your Brothers attention, as well as by your Care respecting it. When next you write to your...
13From John Jay to Jeremy Belknap, 17 August 1797 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with yours of the 24 June. It gives me pleasure to find that your biographical work advances. If it does not proceed too fast, it will be very interesting— especially as it will have the ^an^ advantage which all works of that kind cannot boast, viz t . of judicious selection and candor. I wish I could comply with your Request in a full & satisfactory manner— but the History...
14From John Jay to Benjamin Vaughan, 31 August 1797 (Jay Papers)
I had this afternoon the pleasure of recieving your favor of the 18 Inst.— M rs . Jay joins with me in sincerely congratulating you & your amiable Family on your arrival in this Country— May your Expectations of Happiness in it be perfectly realized. The Reasons which have determined you to settle on the Kennebeck, I can easily concieve are cogent; but I flatter myself you will sometimes find...
15From John Jay to John Drayton, 6 September 1797 (Jay Papers)
on reading The Letter which you was so obliging as to write to me on the 21 July 1795, it appeared however prudent to delay excited no other Surprize than that certain Gentlemen had forgotten the Respect which they owed both to themselves and ^as well as^ to me It was foreseen that any Treaty with Great Britain would be violently opposed by the Debtors to that Country, by the Enemies of the...
16From John Jay to Timothy Pickering, 11 September 1797 (Jay Papers)
I was this morning fav d . with yours of the 9 Inst. and have just finished reading your answer to the Chevaliers indiscreet & improper Letter— If no Faction hostile to the true Interests of this Country existed in it, I presume that the proper way to treat that Gentleman would be to insist on his Recall and to refuse to do Business with him— under present Circumstances, Prudence requires that...
17From John Jay to Richard Varick, 5 October 1797 (Jay Papers)
I have received a Petition from Peter Heaton, stating that he had been convicted of Larceny, at a Court of Quarter Sessions held in the City of New York on the 10 th . July last and sentenced to Six Months Imprisonment at hard Labor in Bridewell— The prayers for a Pardon and his Petition is supported by a number of very respectable Subscribers— Be so good as to converse with the Recorder on...
18From John Jay to Oliver Wolcott, 20 October 1797 (Jay Papers)
It was not untill Yesterday that I recieved (under cover from Col. Talmadge) the Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 19 th . of last Month, with the one addressed to you by several Gentlemen of Litchfield requesting your Interposition with ^me^ for the Pardon of Israel Stone, who is now under Sentence of confinement for Life on Conviction of Forgery—. To your...
19From John Jay to John Trumbull, 27 October 1797 (Jay Papers)
I rec d . three Days ago by the post, your Letter of the 7 August, in which was a Copy of the one you had written on the 20 July, and the original of which I had recieved and read with Pleasure. The Difficulty and Delicacy of your Task my good Friend! are obvious, and ^but^ I flatter myself the Reputation to be derived from it, will soften the Trouble & anxiety it gives You. It was not to be...
20From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 2 November 1797 (Jay Papers)
Your Letter of the 28 ult: was delivered to me this morning— mary had strong Claims to the Care and Kindness of our Family. I wish you had been sooner informed of her Illness, that every assistance in our Power to afford, might if requisite, have been rendered. It is a consolation however to reflect, that you found her comfortably circumstanced as to accommodations; and that she had not been...