1To John Jay from John Trumbull, 20 July 1797 (Jay Papers)
On the 9 th . instant, M r . King put into my hands your Letter of the 3 d . June, containing duplicate of one dated 20 th . October the original of which never came to hand.— I beg you to accept my thanks for both, and particularly for the wise reflexions & Counsel contained in that of October:— Experience has shewn that my apprehensions of delicate and high responsibility, were not...
2To John Jay from John Trumbull, 6 March 1798 (Jay Papers)
The last letter which I have had the honor to receive from you is dated in Albany the 27 th . Oct r . and the last which I wrote to you was of the 10 th . December.— Our Commissioners have not ^been^ received to an Audience in Paris, nor has any Negotiation with them been fairly opened:— Decrees more offensive than all the acts of which they had to complain have been passed under their...
3To John Adams from John Trumbull, 4 September 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have been absent on a Journey to Newhaven, or I should sooner have acknowleged the receipt of your letter of the 12th: Ult. As I never doubted that the reports concerning the conversation in question, originated chiefly from that Spirit mentioned in your Postscript, I was gratified by the account you gave me, principally as it enabled me positively to contradict many unfounded assertions...
4To John Adams from John Trumbull, 6 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I have at length the Satisfaction of informing you that my two Plates of American Subjects are finished, and in a Style perfectly satisfactory to me:—I had hopes of sending out their impressions to my subscribers by this Convoy, but it has been impossible to print a sufficient number to deliver to all, and as I can make no distinctions, I must Suffer the whole to wait the next Convoy, when...
5To John Adams from John Trumbull, 24 September 1800 (Adams Papers)
In my last, I asserted that Connecticut would continue firm against all efforts of the present factions. Our Freemen’s Meetings are now past; & notwithstanding evry exertion of our Jacobins, their expectations have been wholly disappointed. We are not ripe for revolutions, but are generally decisive adherents to our present governments & our antient institutions. The facts & observations...
6To John Jay from John Trumbull, 10 June 1797 (Jay Papers)
You will permit me to present to your acquaintance the Bearer of this Letter. M r . Neimsiwits a Polish Gentleman the Friend & Companion of the unfortunate Kosciusko. M r Neimsiwits was a member of the constitutional Assembly of Poland;— was afterwards wounded by the Gen ls . side:—and carried with him a Prisoner to Petersburg, where, so long as the Empress lived, He was confined & treated in...
7To John Adams from John Trumbull, 6 August 1800 (Adams Papers)
Your Friends in this Town were exceedingly disappointed, that they had not the pleasure of seeing You on your return from Philadelphia, but supposed that an Inclination to view a part of Connecticut in which You had not before travelled, & visit the State of Rhode Island, induced You to vary your accustomed route. A report has since been triumphantly circulated, that You changed the course of...
8To John Jay from John Trumbull, 7 August 1797 (Jay Papers)
Lest Kemp , by whom the original of the above was sent, should be taken, I have written duplicate— Our Awards had all been drawn payable at the Treasury here on the First of July:— for want of proper previous arrangements, they remained unpaid , at the date of the foregoing:— Of course, as there was I believe only one, in which the Board had been unanimous—and many ^in^ which there had been...
9To John Adams from John Trumbull, 2 November 1798 (Adams Papers)
There being a probability that Your Excellency will soon have occasion to nominate a Collector for the Port of New Haven in this State, in the room of Mr Austin, the present holder, I take the Liberty of naming to you Mr Nathan Beers of this City, as a Man well calculated to fill that Office when vacant.—He was an Officer in the American Army during the War—& conducted himself well—He is a Man...
10To John Jay from John Trumbull, 3 June 1799 (Jay Papers)
I wrote to you on the 25 th . March last, since when I am not honored with any of your Favors. The British Government has received official information of the Suspended State of the Commission in America, in consequence of the secession of the two American Gentlemen on the Question respecting the Claim of D r : Inglis. I have seen the printed case, & I think that Gentlemen there carry certain...