51From 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...
52Message to the New York State Assembly, 15 January 1796 (Jay Papers)
You have already been apprized that the Sum granted by the Act respecting infectious Distempers, proved incompetent to the Expences (of which an Account is preparing) occasioned by the late calamitous Sickness in this City. And also that the precautions taken in Albany against the introduction of it into that City caused Expenditures which yet remain to be provided for. To the end that the...
53Address 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...
54To George Washington from John Jay, 14 December 1795 (Washington Papers)
apprehensive that my Letter to you (herewith enclosed) is not exactly such an one, as the Gentleman mentioned in it, may perhaps wish and expect it to be, I think it adviseable to send him a copy of it: and that you may have the more perfect and accurate Information, I enclose a copy of my Letter to him. I have lately received much Intelligence from several Quarters—some allowances are to be...
55From John Jay to Edmund Burke, 12 December 1795 (Jay Papers)
The last time I had the pleasure of seeing you we conversed among other things, and spea^eing of the apples of this Country I promised to send you a few ^some apple^ Trees of some of the best Sorts — Fifty Trees have been put ^of five different Sorts are now^ on Board the Rosanna Cap t . John Pollard, whose Rec[eip] t . for them you will find herewith enclosed Ten of these Trees are in the New...
56From John Jay to Abraham Cuyler, 13 November 1795 (Jay Papers)
I was this morning favored with your’s of the 5 th . of this month, mentioning M r . Harison’s opinion that the Debts in question were not recoverable by Virtue either of the Treaty of Peace, or of the Treaty of amity between the United States and Great Britain— As to M r . Harison’s opinion, I do not hesitate to say that I concur in it— But whether the Subjects of it were or were not...
57From John Jay to John Sinclair, 12 November 1795 (Jay Papers)
Since my arrival my Time has been so much occupied by public Concerns, as that neither my Friends nor private affairs have rec d . from me the Degree of attention that was due to them. Accept my thanks for the Letters and Papers with which you have favored me. They shall be the Subject of another Letter— You may remember my mentioning to you that common Salt had been used with Success as a...
58Proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving, 11 November 1795 (Jay Papers)
By His Excellency John Jay Esquire Governor and Commander in Chief of the State of New York Whereas the Great Creator and Preserver of the Universe is the Supreme Sovereign of Nations, and does, when and as he pleases, reward or punish them by temporal Blessings or Calamities, according as their National Conduct recommends them to his Favor and Beneficence, or excites his Displeasure and...
59From John Jay to Edward Bancroft, 30 October 1795 (Jay Papers)
On my Return two Days ago from a little Excursion into the Country I had the pleasure of recieving your Letter of the 24 of Aug t . last; and thank you very sincerely for the friendly congratulations and Sentiments expressed in it— Your Son soon after his arrival at Philadelphia, and also M r . J. Vaughan wrote to me relative to the object of his coming to this Country; but the State of the...
60From John Jay to Timothy Pickering, 14 October 1795 (Jay Papers)
I was Yesterday ^afternoon^ honored with yours of the 10 Inst. enclosing ^a^ copy of your Letter to Mess rs . Lewis and Rawle and ^of^ their opinion on the points stated in it.— Notwithstanding my Respect for the Talents & Candor of those Gen t . I do not ^yet I do not hesitate to say that^ the Cognizance and Powers given to the Commissioners designated in the 6 and 7 articles of the Treaty...