151American Commissioners to John Jay, 11 May 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Our last letter to you was dated April 13. 1785. and went by the packet of that month from l’Orient. Since that date the letter No. 1.a. directed to Dr. Franklin enclosing those marked No. 1.b and c. and also the paper No. 2. have come to hand. These relate to supplies furnished by Mr. Harrison to the crew of the ship Betsy taken by the Emperor of Morocco, on which subject Congress will be...
152The American Commissioners to John Jay, 11 May 1785 (Adams Papers)
Our last letter to you was dated April 13. 1785. and went by the packet of that month from l’Orient. Since that date the Letter N o. 1. a. directed to D tr Franklin enclosing those marked N o. 1. b & c. and also the paper N o. 2. have come to hand. These relate to supplies furnished by M r Harrison to the crew of the ship Betsy taken by the Emperor of Morocco, on which subject Congress will be...
153American Commissioners to John Jay, 13 April 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
Our letter to you the 18th. day of March with those preceding that period which had been addressed to the President of Congress have conveyed exact details of our transactions till that time. Since the making out of that dispatch the following proceedings have taken place. The letter No. 1 from Mr. Carmichael to Dr. Franklin dated Feby. 27. 1784 (instead of 1785) will apprize you that there is...
154The American Commissioners to John Jay, 28 March 1786 (Adams Papers)
Soon after the arrival of M r. Jefferson in London, We had a conference with the Ambassador of Tripoli, at His House. The amount of all the Information we could obtain from him was that a perpetual peace was in all respects the most adviseable, because a temporary treaty would leave room for increasing demands upon every renewal of it and a stipulation for annual payments, would be liable to...
155American Commissioners to John Jay, 25 April 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Soon after our meeting together in London, We had a Conference with the Secretary of State for foreign affairs, in which we communicated to him, the joint Commission of Congress, for negotiating a Treaty of Commerce with Great Britain, and left an attested Copy of it in the hands of his Lordship. At the same time his Lordship was informed that as the Commission was limited to two years...
156American Commissioners to John Jay, 18 March 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
We received by the last Packet the favor of your letter of Janry. 14. in which we have the agreeable information of your having accepted the appointment of Secretary for foreign Affairs. Besides the general interest we feel in this event as members of the Union which is to [be] availed of your services, we are particularly happy that a channel of communication is opened for us with Congress in...
157From Thomas Jefferson to Jean-Armand Tronchin, with Enclosures, 1 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
According to your desire I wrote two letters to America to enquire after the fate of Mr. Gallatin. One was to Mr. Savary , from whom I have as yet received no answer. The second was to Mr. Jay Secretary for foreign affairs to the United States. He put the paragraph of my letter into the public papers, desiring those who knew any thing of Mr. Gallatin to communicate what they knew. He soon...
158To John Jay from François de Barbé-Marbois, 2 August 1784 (Jay Papers)
J’aime a croire que cinq années d’éloignement des ce pays ci ne vous ont pas fait oublier ceux à qui vous avés bien voulu marquer de l’interêt, et quelque peu durable qu’ait été votre sejour ici après mon arrivée je me souviens avec beaucoup de plaisir de l’accueil que j’y ay reçu de vous. Je desire beaucoup d’etre dans le cas de traiter d’affaires avec votre Excellence, et je suis fort...
159To John Jay from François de Barbé-Marbois, 27 January 1785 (Jay Papers)
Il en a desirer que le Congress veuille bien faire communiquer au Chargé des affaires de France les mesures qui ont été prises ou celles qui le seront en consequence de la note qu’il a eu l’honneur de remettre au Commencemen du mois de Decembre dernire touchant les affaires d’Espagne. M r . Rendon eu d’opinion que Sa Cour sera disposée à fair une cession de la partie des Floridas que le Traité...
160To John Jay from François de Barbé-Marbois, 10 February 1785 (Jay Papers)
J’ai l’honneur de vous adresser la note par laquelle je demande au Congrès l’extradition du S. Longchamps. Les papiers que j’ay eu l’honneur de vous remettre justiffient la demande que je fais et je vous prie de vouloir bien me les renvoyer quand ils ne vous seront plus necessaires en cas que le Congrès en desire la communication il suffira que je les reçoive vers le 20 de ce mois. J’ay eu...
161To John Jay from Thomas Barclay, 30 July 1786 (Jay Papers)
meeting with a confidential Person going to Surinam and from thence to Philadelphia, I embrace the oppertunity of informing you of my return from Morocco, after having concluded a treaty of Peace & Commerce between the Emperor and the United States. This treaty I will send by express from the first Port I can reach in Europe to M r . Jefferson and from him & M r . Adams you will have the...
Le Soussigné Conseiller de Commerce et de la Navigation pour les Ètats de sa Majesté l’Empereur et Roi prend la liberté de répeter par cette note ainsi que Votre Excellence a bien voulu le lui permettre l’object de sa conference avec Elle. Il s’est reduit Monsieur a vous exposer qu’ensuite du raport du Comité de la Chambre de Commerce à Charlestown la généralité auroit resolu Una voce,...
163To John Jay from William Bingham, 10 March 1784 (Jay Papers)
I received your agreable Letter of the 22 d . Novem r & exceedingly regret your Speedy Intention of Speedily departing for America, more especially as it will deprive M rs Bingham & myself of the pleasure of personally assuring M rs Jay & you of our own affectionate Regards— We shall leave England in the Beginning of May, & Shall take Holland in our Route to Spa, where we intend to remain...
164To John Jay from William Bingham, 16 October 1784 (Jay Papers)
I have just heard that a French Packet is on the Point of departure for New York— I cannot permit it to Sail, without forwarding a few Lines, expressive of the Pleasure I received, on hearing of your Safe Arrival The Services you have been enabled to render your Country, will naturally Secure you a very welcome Reception;—the only Circumstance that can be productive of disagreable Sensations,...
165To John Jay from William Bingham, 29 January 1788 (Jay Papers)
I have seen various detached Numbers of a periodical Publication under the Title of the Fœderalist, which have much pleased me, as the Author has treated the Subject in a Strong masterly Manner—I have heard that it is about to be republished in the Form of a Pamphlet, in which Case I shall be much indebted to you for a Copy— The Opposition to the new Government in this State, which was...
166To John Jay from William Bingham, 12 February 1785 (Jay Papers)
I Send you the Copy of a Letter of antient Date, as I have some Reason to believe that the Original miscarried— Accounts have recently been received of the capture of another American Vessel, by a piratical Cruizer from the Coast of Barbary; this has occasioned Such an Alarm, that the Premium of Insurance, even from the Ports of Britain, is advanced 100 p% on American Vessels—& from the Ports...
167To John Jay from William Bingham, 19 July 1787 (Jay Papers)
From the period of July 1776, when I first arrived in the French west Indies untill the month of February 1778, I found all their Ports open for the admission of Lumber, Salted Fish & Live Stock, & indeed for all the Productions of America, (even those that entered into Competition with the Articles that France could furnish her Colonies with) but this was only a temporary Indulgence, arising...
168To John Jay from William Bingham, 29 August 1785 (Jay Papers)
I lately spent a few Days at Amsterdam, where I had an opportunity of making some Enquiries respecting the Failure of Mess de la Lande & Fynjie, one of the Houses employed by M r Adams in the Negotiation of the Loan on Account of the United States— This Loan having failed of Success in several Attempts made by other Houses in Amsterdam, it was at length committed to the Management of Mess rs ....
169To John Jay from Joel Bordwell, 2 October 1787 (Jay Papers)
May it please your Excellency to accept a Line from us as a Token of Respect from me . Methinks your exalted Character will not forbid you to be glad to hear from the poor Clergyman & Family with whom in Times of Tribulation you & your D r . Lady sojourned for a short Time. Our Family are Well—Children in Number eight—The three eldest Women grown—shall Remember your Kindness to us—S r . we are...
170To John Jay from Elias Boudinot, 1 November 1783 (Jay Papers)
I was honored by your several private favours, recommending M r . Vaughan and some other Gentlemen, to whom I have endeavoured to pay every civility in my power— Also one enclosing my Nephew’s Letter from Madeira, for which I am much obliged to you. Congress has thought proper to appoint him their Commercial Agent at that Island. He is a deserving young American, who I doubt not will do honor...
171To John Jay from William Carmichael, 9[–26] December 1785 (Jay Papers)
On the 7 th . Ult o . I had the Honor to write you,—Since which I have had an Opportunity of procuring very essential Information with respect to the negotiation between this Court & the Regency of Algiers.—Prudence dictates that I should not trust to this mode of Conveyance the means by which I have been able to obtain this Intelligence. I shall however not hesitate to inform you that all the...
172To John Jay from William Carmichael, 29 April 1788 (Jay Papers)
On the 23 d instant I came to this place & on the 26 th had an opportunity of speaking to his Ex cy the C t de Florida Blanca on the subject of the reports which have been assiduously circulated for sometime past among the Corps Diplomatique & in the Capital of hostilities having been commenced by the Inhabitants on the Western Waters against Louisiana which hostilities were said to be...
173To John Jay from George Clinton, 8 November 1784 (Jay Papers)
It has gave me much Pain that I have not been able to answer your Letter of the 18 th . Ultimo sooner. I have not had a Moments Leisure to do it.— Should the Proceedings of the Com rs : (under the Law respecting People of suspicious & equivocal Characters) against M r Peter Van Schaick subject him to the Penalties of it on his returning to the State it would be peculiarly hard— I will not...
In Compliance with your Letter of the 3 d : of May last, I have the Honor to transmit you inclosed, Extracts from the Journals of the Assembly, of this State, containing the Information required and am, with the highest Respect Sir Your Most Obed t Serv t . LS , with enclosed extracts, DNA: PCC , item 67, 2: 531, 534–38 ( EJ : 5136 ). Endorsed. LbkC , DNA: Domestic Letters
175To John Jay from James Duane, 27 August 1784 (Jay Papers)
I feel the disappointment in being deprived of the pleasure of your own and M rs . Jays Company! I now send my Judgem t in M rs Rutgers’s Cause, & entreat you to peruse ^ it ^ and to give me your candid opinion whether the publication of it is likely to produce any politick advantage and whether my decisions will stand a Scrutiny— Yours most respectfully & Affect ly ALS , NNC ( EJ :
176To John Jay from James Duane, 20 December 1788 (Jay Papers)
I set off in a hurry which alone prevented my calling upon you for which I had a variety of motives. One was to explain the reasons which induced me to transmit to you a State of facts on a subject which I thought somewhat interesting, and the more so as it ^had^ produced a Visit from three reverend Doctors the evening before I commenced my Journey— Their object was to prevent a flame which...
177To John Jay from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York, 2 October 1784 (Jay Papers)
To the honorable John Jay Esquire late ^ one of the ^ Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States of America for negociating a Peace.— Sir Be pleased to accept the Congratulations of the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York on your safe Return to the Place of your Nativity. The Revolution, which hath secured our Liberties and Independence, will not be more celebrated for...
178To John Jay from C. W. F. Dumas, 26 October 1787 (Jay Papers)
Votre Exc e . verra par la Gazette ci jointe, combien l’on m’en veut ^ ici ^ , & par le vague des Expressions, qu’on n’a rien d’illicite contre moi à alléguer, encore moins à prouver.—Mais avec la populace, qui n’exige pas des preuves, on n’en est pas resté là: on lui a fait faussement accroire, que j’ai donné de l’argent au ci-devant Corps franc bourgeois de La haie, que j’ai tenu des armes...
179To John Jay from Alexander Fowler, 1 October 1785 (Jay Papers)
As Secretary for Foreign affairs I have been advised to address you. Towards the conclusion of the War I formed a Commercial connection in this Country with a view at that period of extending our Trade to the Southward by way of the Mississippi, the only communication we have from this quarter of the Continent with the Ocean. A young Man whom I entrusted with about ₤1000 in Goods proceeded...
180To John Jay from George Fox, 13 August 1787 (Jay Papers)
I have it in direction, from the Society for Political Inquiries, to invite you to become an honorary Member of that Institution. For your information with respect to the principles upon which it has been established, I hand you a Copy of its Laws, & can not but express to you the hopes they entertain that you will permit them to associate you with them in so laudable a design. I have the...