681To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 4 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have stolen a Moment from the Business of the House to write You by M r : Phelps, who is dispatched some Hours sooner than I was apprised of or I should have wrote You more fully— He is the Bearer of our peremptory Instructions to the Delegates relative to the Affair of Vermont— This Business I must entreat Your utmost Endeavers to dispatch, for You will observe We are to continue sitting...
682To John Jay from Benjamin Lincoln, 5 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have the pleasure to congratulate Congress on the arrival of Count D’Estaing’s Fleet off Savannah—but am sorry to inform them that his stay on this coast will be but short and the aid we can afford him very inconsiderable— The Count has sent one of his Officers on shore to establish a plan of operations— He returns immediately with Dispatches on that head— All the Troops are ordered to take...
683To John Jay from Nathanael Greene, 19 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
His Excellency General Washington, has shewn me a Letter of General Sullivan’s to Congress, wherein he exclaims against the force and preparations for the Expedition he is sent upon; particularly against the preparation in the Quarter Master’s Department. It was the 2 nd of March before His Excellency, General Washington determined upon the plan of operation. This was owing to the difficulty...
684To John Jay from Edmund Pendleton, 27 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Hon r . to acknowledge the receipt of each of y r . very obliging Fav rs . by return of Post, neither of which I presume had reached you when your last of the 14 th . was written, but will hereafter regularly find their way. I am just return’d from attending our High Court of Chancary, where we found little business, people appearing more inclined to hunt the Sources of money,...
The Delegates of the united States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia In congress assembled— To all who shall see these Presents send Greeting— Whereas an intercourse between the Subjects of his Catholic Majesty, and the Citizens...
686To John Jay from Alexander Hamilton, 29 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
I am honored with your letter of the 18th which I received with all the pleasure that is inspired by a sincere respect and esteem. I must beg leave to repeat my assurances to you, that whenever I have occasion to trouble you in the epistolary way, unless where the subject should require a return, I shall be sorry, you should think yourself bound by the rules of ceremony; and I shall always...
687To John Jay from George Clinton, 5 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
I received your Favour of the 29 th . Ult mo . on my Way from Kingston to this Place whither I was called yesterday, by the Indisposition of my little Boy who is so extreamly Sick & low as to leave us—but little Hopes of his Recovery— I congratulate you most sincerely on your late Appointment and be assured you have my warmest Wishes that your Embassy may be attended with Success equal to your...
688To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 6 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have just now heard that you are upon the point of leaving us. I might have expected to have rec d . this intelligence from yourself rather than from loose report since there is scarse a transaction in the world in which I feel myself more interested. I rejoice at it as it advances your fortune & reputation. I lament it, as it adds to the Loses I have already felt in the course of this war...
689To John Jay from George Washington, 7 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
Permit me, amongst the number of your friends to congratulate you & my Country on ^ your late honourable, & important ^ appointment—& Be assured ^ Sir ^ that my pleasure on this occasion though it may be equaled by ^ can t be exceeded by that of any ^ other
690To John Jay from Edmund Pendleton, 11 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
As I conjectured so it happen’d that your esteem’d Fav r . of the 21 st . past made a visit to Williamsburg & found me on it’s return, your next I suppose is now on the same route, as it is not yet come to hand. I beleive Count D’Estang amongst the beneficial things he has done for America in General, has effected a most important purpose for Virginia, in stopping a larger embarkation from...