301To George Washington from John Jay, 11 August 1794 (Washington Papers)
The Letter herewith enclosed from Mr Wangenheim came to me enclosed from him, requesting me to transmit it to You —it was as it now is, without a cover—of this Gentleman I have no knowledge or information but from these Letters. I have written to him, that the Issue of his Application to You could not be foreseen; but that as the united States interposed no Impediments to Emigrants, so on the...
302Address to the New York State Legislature, 6 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
PERMIT me to avail myself of this first opportunity, which has occurred, of expressing through you to my constituents, the high sense I entertain of that esteem and confidence which prompted them to place me in the station I now fill. Fully apprized of the duties which it imposes upon me, my best endeavours shall be exerted to fulfill them; and I flatter myself, that in the course of my...
303From John Jay to John Quincy Adams, 13 December 1794 (Jay Papers)
I am much obliged by your Letter of the 2 d . of this month— your Letter to M r . Randolph goes by the aurora to New York. we have had several late arrivals from thence & from Ph[iladelphi] a .— In the Adriana from the latter Place M r . Sam l . Bayard came passenger, He is appointed by the Governm t . to superintended the Prosecution of Claims & appeals in the Capture Causes.— The...
304From John Jay to Edmund Randolph, 13 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
Hitherto my Letters have communicated to you but little information of much importance, except on one point;—Altho all the general objects of my Mission were opened at once, & were received with every indication of the same Candor & Disposition to Agreement with which they were stated, yet the Nature of the Business turned the imediate & more particular Attention of both parties to the Affairs...
305From John Jay to Alexander Hamilton, 17 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
There is something very pleasant in the Reflection that while war discord and oppression triumph in so many parts of Europe, their Domination does not extend to our Country. I sometimes flatter myself that Providence in compassion to the afflicted in these Countries, will continue to leave America in a proper State to be an azylum to them.— Among those who have suffered severely from these...
306From John Jay to George Washington, 12 December 1790 (Jay Papers)
On the 2 Instant ^Before I left Providence [ illegible ]^ I was honored with yours of the 19 of last month. It found me at Providence. Having I wrote ^had written^ to you by the Post from Boston on the 13 november. That Letter probably reached you ^arrived^ soon after the Date of yours. In it I took the Liberty of suggesting some Hints on Subjects that ^ some ^ ^of w h . a few^ appeared to me,...
307John Jay’s Address upon His Arrival in New York, [28 May 1795] (Jay Papers)
Fellow-Citizens, those marks of your attention to me are highly grateful— I can never forget them—and the recollection of them will give a new motive to do, what shall be agreeable to you, and conducive to the general welfare. I thank you for your kind reception, and am happy to be again in my own country, and in the midst of you, my friends and fellow-citizens. PtD , Greenleaf’s New York...
WE beg leave to address you in the simple style of freemen; and in the name of the citizens of Lansingburgh, to congratulate you on your arrival at our infant settlement. Fully impressed with a sense of your patriotism, we embrace this opportunity of expressing our gratitude for your unwearied exertions through the struggles of an oppressive war, and your eminent services as a statesman and...
309To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 26 November 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, November 26, 1792. On December 18, 1792, Hamilton wrote to Jay : “Your favours of the 26 of November & 16 instant have duly come to hand.” Letter of November 26 not found. ]
310From John Jay to Sarah Livingston Jay, 18 July 1794 (Jay Papers)
I have written to you more than one Letter by the Ohio Cap t . Kemp— they will inform you that three Letters from you have arrived— the latest of them is dated the 13 th . June— I have also written by him a few Lines to the Girls with whose Letters I am much pleased. M r . Roche expects to sail in a few Days for Boston, and thinking it probable that Letters by him will reach you sooner than...
311From John Jay to James Iredell, 3 March 1792 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav[ore] d . with yours of the 16 th . of last month — Judge Cushing accidentally carried it with him to New Haven, from whence he sent it to me by the Post. He mentioned to me what had passed at Ph[iladelphi] a . relative to the circuits. The Difficulties attending that Subject can in my opinion be removed by Congress only. The Objections heretofore stated to a Rotation strike me...
312From John Jay to Richard Varick, 7 June 1796 (Jay Papers)
Considering the Works erected on Governors Island and the obvious objections to having a Lazaretto near a Garrison I am solicitous to procure some other place for that purpose You are apprized of the difficulty or rather impossibility of purchasing from individuals any ground in a convenient situation for a Lazaretto on account of the popular prejudices against having such an establishment in...
313From John Jay to David Hartley, 14 December 1789 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Pleasure of rec g your Letter of the Day of August last. Whether the United States will be more or less happy than other nations God only knows; I am inclined to think they will be, because to me there appears to be ^in my opinion^ more Light & Knowledge ^are^ diffused thro the Mass of the People of this Country than of any other. The Revolution in France certainly promises...
314From John Jay to Robert Goodloe Harper, 19 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
A Friend of mine lately sent me your address to your constituents relative to the Treaty. I have read it with Pleasure— Had all the publications on that Subject been written with with equal Knowledge and Attention, or with equal Candor and Decorum, more Truth would have been disseminated, and less Irritation excited. I observe in it the following Paragraph—viz t . “Objections both personal and...
315From John Jay to Charles Pettit, 14 July 1789 (Jay Papers)
Your obliging Letter of the 5 Inst. was delivered to me last week. They who have nam d . me as a proper Person for Sec y . of the Treasury do me more Honor than my Qualifications for that placement; nor have I the least wish, or Room to expect, to be employed in affairs of that kind, in w h . I take little Pleasure & for w h . I have no Reason to think that I have more Talents than...
316John Jay’s Draft of the Justices of the Supreme Court to Thomas Jefferson, 20 July 1793 (Jay Papers)
The included Letter ^from us^ to the President being in the Subject of the one which by the Direction you did us the Honor to write on the 18 Instant; We think It most proper & regular that it should pass to him thro your Hands, and for that purpose commit it to Your Care. We have the Honor to be Sir Your Most Ob t . & hble Serv t . Dft , NNC ( EJ : 08445 ; 90242); LS , DNA : RG 59,...
317From John Jay to Diego de Gardoqui, 27 July 1789 (Jay Papers)
I have received the Letter which you did me the honor to write on the 24 th . Inst., and immediately laid before the President the note it enclosed; and by which he is informed, that having his Majesty’s Permission to return to Spain for a while, you purpose to embrace the first good Opportunity that may offer. Considering how long the Negotiations depending between our Countries have...
318To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, [8 July 1791] (Hamilton Papers)
[ New York, July 8, 1791. Letter not found. ] “List of Letters from Mr. Jay …” to H, Columbia University Libraries.
319From John Jay to Edmund Randolph, 14 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
Mr. Morris will, together with this, deliver to you a long Letter from me dated Yesterday— The Negociation proceeds: and I now have some Reason to hope, that the Business of the north western Corner will be so managed as to cease to be an obstacle to agreement— I have proposed that the further Discussion of that Matter be postponed until accurate Surveys of the River be made, by joint...
320From John Jay to Richard Lawrence, 23 January 1797 (Jay Papers)
It gives me pleasure to inform you that the Legislature has been pleased to appropriate 2500 Dollars for the Relief of the French Refugees in our City, whose complicated Distresses recommend them so strongly to our Beneficence & humane Attentions. You will find herewith enclosed a Warrant on the Treasurer for 1000 Doll s . and a Copy of the Act lately passed on this Subject. The Directions and...
321From John Jay to Grenville, Project for a Treaty with Great Britain, 30 September 1794 (Jay Papers)
Treaty of Amity and Commerce made and concluded by and between His Britannic Majesty; and the President of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof— His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, being desirous by a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, to terminate their differences in such a manner, as...
322From John Jay to Timothy Pickering, 31 January 1797 (Jay Papers)
Accept my Thanks for your obliging Favor of the 23 d . Instant, enclosing a Copy of your interesting Letter to M r . Pinckney, which is read here with great avidity and satisfaction— it enables our Citizens to form a correct Judgment of the Conduct Claims and Complaints of France, relative to this Country; and to appreciate the wisdom, abilities and virtue with which our Govern t is...
323To George Washington from John Jay and Rufus King, 27 January 1794 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from John Jay and Rufus King, 27 Jan. 1794. In his letter to Henry Knox of 15 Feb. , GW referred to “the subject of Mr Jay and Mr King’s letter to me, of the 27th of last month.”
324To George Washington from John Jay, 19 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
It occurs to me that it may not be perfectly prudent to say that we are never to expect Favors from a nation, for that assertion seems to imply that nations always are , or always ought to be moved only by interested motives. It is true that disinterested Favors are so rare, that on that account they are not to be expected between nations; and if that Sentiment turned on that Reason vizt their...
325John Jay and Rufus King “To the Public,” 26 November 1793 (Jay Papers)
Although well constituted free Governments only, can give and preserve to men the Enjoyment of rational liberty, yet no government can liberate individuals from the impulse, and domination of their passions. Hence it is that the excesses of these passions so frequently produce Parties in all communities, and that personal motives, are so often found to be masked by patriotic professions. While...
326John Jay and Rufus King to Alexander Hamilton and Henry Knox, 26 November 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
You will recieve herewith enclosed a Publication by Mr Genet denying his having declared that he wd. appeal from the President to the People —a publication by us that we would shortly proceed to state the Evidence and Circumstances relative to that Transaction, and also our manuscript address to the public containing such Statemt. We think it more expedient as well as more delicate with...
327From John Jay to Egbert Benson, 27 June 1795 (Jay Papers)
[ illegible ] ^[ illegible ]^ after my Return from Ph a ., and just as I was about setting out for Rye ^from whence I returned last Ev g ^ your Letter of the 13 Inst, which had been sent on to Ph a ., was delivered to me— It gave me pleasure to recieve it, but I should have been ^more^ pleased to have seen the writer. God only knows, [ illegible ] whether my Removal from the Bench to my...
328John Jay and Rufus King to Messrs. Printers, [12 August 1793] (Jay Papers)
CERTAIN late publications render it proper for us to authorize to inform the Public, that a report having reached this City from Philadelphia, that Mr. Genet, the French Minister, had said he would Appeal to the People from certain decisions of the President; we were asked, on our return from that place, whether he had made such a declaration—we answered, THAT HE HAD, and we also mentioned it...
329John Jay’s Charge to the Grand Jury, Circuit Court for the District of Vermont, [25] June 1792 (Jay Papers)
To contemplate offences, and to prescribe punishments are unpleasing but necessary Tasks; being imposed by the nature of civil Society, and by those vices which too often prompt Individuals to violate the Rights of others. Altho’ no Proposition is more true, than that the Interests & the Duties of men are inseparable; yet it is unfortunately and equally true, that their conduct does not always...
You will recieve herewith enclosed a Publication by M r Genet denying his having declared that he w d . appeal from the President to the People— a publication by us that we would shortly proceed to state the Evidence and Circumstances relative to that Transaction, and also our ^manuscript^ address to the public containing such Statem t .— we think it most ^more [ illegible ]^ expedient ^^[...
331Enclosure: [Proclamation by George Washington], [April 1793] (Hamilton Papers)
By George Washington President of the U. S. of am⟨erica⟩ a Proclamation. Whereas every nation has a right to change and modify their constitution and Govt., in such manner as they may think most c⟨onducive⟩ to their welfare and Happiness. And Whereas they who a⟨ctually⟩ administer the governmt. of any nation, are by foreign nations ⟨to⟩ be regarded as its lawful Rulers , so long as they...