1From John Adams to William Cushing, 14 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have not yet acknowledged my obligation to you for your favor of Aug t 22. if my hasty scrawls written in gloomy times and desperate circumstances, have furnished you an amusement for a vacant hour I am glad of it. My present office is as agreable to me as any public office ever can be: and my situation as pleasing as any on this earth, excepting Braintree. My compensation will be...
2From John Jay to William Cushing, 9 January 1793 (Jay Papers)
I was Yesterday fav[ore] d . with yours of the 6 th . Inst:— it gives pleasure to learn that your Circuit has been agreable, and that you & M rs . Cushing have arrived in good Health at Philad a .— be pleased to present M rs . Jays and my best Comp[liment] s . to her. I still feel the Effects of my late Illness, but have much Reason to thank God that I am as well as I am. It is my Intention to...
3From John Jay to William Cushing, 13 September 1790 (Jay Papers)
I have the Honor of transmitting to you herewith inclosed, the Draft I have prepared of the proposed Letter from us to the President. Be pleased to return it with such Alterations & Corrections as You may think it requires. I shall send Copies of it to the other Judges, with the like Request; and on recieving them again, will incorporate such additions and make such other alterations as ^we^...
4From John Jay to William Cushing, 7 December 1789 (Jay Papers)
I have been favored with your’s of the 18 th . of last month, and I participate very sincerely in the general Satisfaction which your appointment has given. Your attendance at the Time mentioned in your Letter will in my opinion be sufficiently early. It gives me Pleasure to learn that writs from your District Courts will be in the Name of “the President of the united States,” and that you...
5From John Jay to William Cushing, 19 March 1792, enclosing a copy of John Jay to James Iredell, 19 March 1792 (Jay Papers)
I subjoin a copy of a Letter which I have just written to Judge Iredell, in answer to one which I two Days ago rec d . from him. Be pleased to present M rs . Jays & my Comp ts . to M rs . Cushing and to M r & M rs . Phillips. — with great Esteem & Regard I am D r Sir your aff te . & hble Serv t
6From John Jay to William Cushing, 6 August 1793 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with your’s of the 22 d of last month— This morning we assigned the Eastern Circuit to Judge Blair, with whom Judge Wilson is to attend the Courts at Connecticut, R. Island & New Hampshire — the Middle Circuit to Judge Paterson (by agreem t . between him and Judge Wilson)—and the Southern Circuit to You— The latter I think ought first to have been assigned to Judge Wilson—...
7From John Jay to William Cushing, 27 January 1793 (Jay Papers)
I am prepared and purpose to set out for Ph[iladelphi] a . Tomorrow if the Weather should prove fair . for altho I have regained more Health than I had Reason to expect to have done so soon; yet I find it delicate, and not sufficiently confirmed to admit of my travelling in bad weather. I mention this that in Case the ensuing Week should be stormy, my Absence from you may not appear singular—...