John Jay and Henry Knox to the Board of Treasury, 1 February 1788
John Jay and Henry Knoxt to the Board of Treasury
(Arthur Lee, Walter Livingston, and Samuel Osgood)
New York 1st. February 1788
Gentlemen
We have hired for a Year the new House of the honorable Walter Livingston Esquire in the Broad way,1 for the Offices of foreign affairs and of War, at the rate of £250 and the Taxes. As we shall not have occasion for all the Rooms, it may perhaps be convenient to you to place one or more of the Officers within your Department in the supernumerary ones. We have the honor to be &ca.
(signed) John Jay
H. Knox
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, 3: 316 (EJ:1. Livingston’s residence was at 95 Broadway. David C. Franks, The New-York-Directory (New York, 1787), 23 ( no. 20369).