671To John Jay from Jonathan Trumbull, 22 June 1779 (Jay Papers)
The General Assembly of this State, at its sessions in Jan y last, ordered taxes to be levied to collect their Quota assigned for the 15,000,000 Dollars requested by Congress in their Resolve of 5 th Jan y . last— At their May Session further Taxes are granted to collect the Quota assigned this State of 45,000,000 Dollars— They are payable at different Periods—none exceed the 1st Jan y . next...
672To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 23 June 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have frequently of late determined to write to You and have been as often interrupted; indeed this disagreeable Business, in which I am engaged, tho’ it is not sufficient to furnish Me with constant Employment yet is of ^ such ^ a Nature as to leave Me scarce a Moment which I can call my own or in which I am free from Interruption. We were flattered that when our Government was established...
673To John Jay from Nathanael Greene, 24 June 1779 (Jay Papers)
A late law has been passed by the legislature of the state of New Jersey, for the express purpose of taxing the Assistant and Deputy Quarter Masters General, which I am afraid will be productive of the most disagreeable consequences— This law appears so arbitrary and unprecedented upon any free principles of taxation, that I am surprized it ever had the sanction of a deliberative body— Such a...
674To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 6 July 1779 (Jay Papers)
Since I had the Pleasure of writing to You last the Committee of Congress have returned from Vermont, and they passed thro’ this place when I happened unfortunately not to be at home— Altho I have not had an Opportunity to converse with them yet from what has been communicated to Me by the Governor and the Papers which I have seen, their Embassy has not been productive of the Good I both...
675To John Jay from Nathanael Greene, 14 July 1779, enclosing Thomas Chase to Nathanael Greene, 1 July 1779 (Jay Papers)
The enclosed is a letter from Col. Chace D.Q.M.G. at Boston. The representation it contains, and the consequences that will follow, point out the necessity of some mode being adopted for the security of the Barracks— For the present, I have directed Col. Chace to enter into contract with the proprietors of the soil on which the Barracks stand, to make them a reasonable compensation for the use...
676To John Jay from Anne Conyngham, 17 July 1779 (Jay Papers)
I beg leave to trouble your Excellency and the Honorable Congress, with the perusal of the inclosed letter from my Husband, Cap t . Gustavus Conyngham, late Commador of the Cutter Revenge, now a Prisoner and in Irons on board a British Packet, bound to England. As these Extraordinary and in the present Stage of the War between Britain and America, Singular Cruelties exercised upon the Person...
677To John Jay from John Sullivan, 21 July 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have hitherto delayed troubling congress with any accounts from this quarter, from a hope, that before this time I should have been able to have given them more favourable accounts from this quarter, than is now in my power. My duty to the publick & regard to my own reputation, compel me to State to congress the reasons of the army under my command being so long delayed at this post, without...
678To 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...
679To John Jay from John Penn, 27 August 1779 (Jay Papers)
I am thus far on my way home, I got to Annapolis as soon as Doctor Burke & M r . Randolp, I have the pleasure to tell you that I never saw such a prospect for Corn as the present crop, it is thought that there will be much more made than has been for many years past. M r . William Lee has directed his Brother to pay all the Gentleman in Virginia to whom he was indebted for Tob o . shipped to...
680To John Jay from Alexander Gillon, 29 August 1779 (Jay Papers)
I flatter my self with the Hopes that you have enjoy’d a Perfect State of Health since I had the pleasure of Seeing you at Philadelphia, & that you will very soon Reap the Reward due to your Perserverance & Labour, as A little Success of the United Fleet must I conceive produce next Spring that Inestimable Blessing Peace.— I have been Seven Months in this Kingdom Labouring to Execute the...