1To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 17 February 1810 (Jay Papers)
I have just received and read your letter of the 9th. On the 13th I acknowledged the receipt of your letter of the 7th. I pray you to accept of my thanks for these favours. Should further questions occur, I will use the liberty you give to request your answers. The bill which has passed the House of Representatives, under the name of Macon’s Bill (and which the Government paper here...
2To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 16 July 1796, enclosing Timothy Pickering to Alexander Hamilton, 16 July 1796 (Jay Papers)
Some doubts having arisen on the mode of executing the 5th article of the British treaty, relative to the river S t . Croix, I wrote this morning a letter to Colonel Hamilton on the Subject, and requested him to converse with you. But he may chance to be absent; and as M r . Howell will in the course of two or three days be returning to Rhode Island through your city, I thought it expedient to...
3To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 4 August 1779 (Jay Papers)
Maj. Gen. Sullivan having in a way of complaint informed Congress that notwithstanding his repeated applications, the board had not supplied the necessary clothing for the troops under his command; & his letter on the subject being referred to the board: We beg leave to state the mode of his application, & what supplies we have sent him. On the 11 th of May we recieved a letter from Gen’l...
4To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 20 July 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have this moment received your letter of the 18 th . By the newspapers which go hence this morning, you will see your wishes respecting Col o . Hamilton gratified. At the head of the appointments, he is Inspector General with the rank of Major General. This was intended to place him next in command to Gen l . Washington: yet I feel some solicitude about the effect. Under circumstances not...
5To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 13 December 1797 (Jay Papers)
Yesterday, in conversation with M r . FitzSimons (who, you will doubtless recollect, is one of the commissioners on the claims of British debts) he mentioned two questions of vast importance which were presented at the threshold of the business: one, ^on^ which side lay the onus probandi respecting the solvency or insolvency of the debtor—the other, whether interest should or should not be...
6To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 6 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
By this day’s mail I have addressed to you two copies of the laws passed at the last session of Congress. Of the ten thousand copies of the instructions to & dispatches from our envoys to the French Republic, I propose to send eight hundred to be distributed in the state of New-York. They are now ready, & I shall forward them to the Collector M r . Sands at the city of New York.— For the...
7To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 8 June 1797 (Jay Papers)
The manner in which you have noticed my letter to General Pinckney, at its first publication, and recently in your letter of the 27th ult. has given me the truest satisfaction; while the reproaches of the whole body of democrats, of French Devotees , excite no other sensation than that of regret for the mischief their lies and misrepresentations produce thro’ the country. I am well informed...
8To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 10 October 1795 (Jay Papers)
The inclosed copy of my letter of the 6th instant to William Lewis & William Rawle Esquires will apprize you of the object of this address. Their answer, which is also inclosed, does not, I confess, correspond with my ideas of the meaning of the seventh article of the treaty which you negotiated with Lord Grenville. I always conceived that the principal ground of our complaints of spoliations...
9To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 9 April 1798 (Jay Papers)
The dispatches from our envoys in Paris being published this morning, I do myself the pleasure to inclose you a copy. Unless the corruption of the French Government and their unjust, tyrannical, rapacious and insulting conduct towards the U. States shall rouse the indignant spirit of the people , our independence is at an end. The leaders of the opposition in Congress, while thunderstruck with...
10To John Jay from Timothy Pickering, 9 September 1797 (Jay Papers)
Perhaps you may think the rude and insolent letter of the Chevalier de Yrujo to me, dated the 11th of July, not entitled to an answer, especially as the documents which had been made public proved to every well informed man and attentive reader that his observations were either futile or unfounded. But I thought it would be necessary to make some remarks on his letter, to be eventually...