1To John Jay from Cadwallader Colden II, 12 May 1777 (Jay Papers)
You are not Unacquainted with my Sentiments in Regard to this Unhappy affair, that has allready Cost so Much Blood and Treasure, and Likely Yet to Cost a Vast Deal More, And notwithstanding my Determin’d Resolution to keep a Clear Conscience by takeing no active Part on Either Side of the Contraversey, Yet it Seems I have a full Share of Punishment— But it is not on my own Account that I am...
2To John Jay from Cadwallader Colden II, 31 May 1777 (Jay Papers)
I had Desired Doct r : Jones to Speak to You and some other Gent n . of the Council of Safety Concerning a Report I had heard, that I with some other Gent n . ^ now at Lodgings ^ was to be Confined on bord a Vessel, the Doct r Told me Yesterday that You was so kind as to Propose to Call to See me on that Account; But this Moment the Sherriff Sent a Man to inform M r Cumming and Myself to hold...