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...
By the treaties subsisting between his most Christian Majesty and the United States of America, a power is reserved to his Catholic Majesty to accede to the said treaties and to participate in their stipulations at such time as he shall judge proper, it being well understood nevertheless, that if any of the stipulations of the said treaties are not agreeable to the King of Spain, his Catholic...
692To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 22 December 1779 (Jay Papers)
I am told there will be an opportunity of send g . this to you, I wish therefore to imbrace it tho as I know not how safe the conveyance may be, I shall only deal in generals— You who know the share that you have in a heart too susceptible of tender emotions will easily believe the pain it gave me to find no token of your friendship, no farewell line at this place, where I hastened immediately...
693To John Jay from Seth Harding, 27 December 1779 (Jay Papers)
I arrived within about three Miles of this Harbor, about Eight O’Clock last Evening when we were obligated to come to Anchor, where we lay till this Morning, weighed Anchor about Eight OClock, and stood in for the Harbor where we arrived about 9 OClock. Have not had Time to make much inquiry about Spars, &c. for the Ship; but have Reason to think, from what I have heard, that I shall not be so...
694To John Jay from the Committee for Foreign Affairs (James Lovell, Robert R. Livingston, and William Churchill Houston) … (Jay Papers)
By the inclosed Resolves of Congress you will find that we are become more dependent upon your vigorous Exertions for the Amelioration of our Currency than you perhaps expected when you left Philadelphia. We think it of so much Importance that you Should be early apprized of the measures determined upon respecting Bills of Exchange that we do not chuse to omit this good Opportunity of...
695To John Jay from Gouverneur Morris, 3 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
You will doubtless be glad to hear News from this Quarter. Your Friends are all well. Our Army are hutted in the Vicinity of Morris Town except a Detachment consist. of the North Carolina & Virginia Troops who are on their March to the Southward three thousand — The Don on the Part of the Governor of havannah did lately propose to Congress to assist in the Reduction of Florida .— They have...
696To John Jay from William Churchill Houston, 7 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is not simply from being a Member of the Committee of Foreign Affairs that I take the Liberty of troubling you; my Curiosity to have Access to all the Sources of Knowledge in publick Affairs, is a further Apology. For this I confess I have a boundless Thirst and Eagerness. A Vessel, lately arrived to the Eastward, reports to have spoken with the Confederacy on the Coast of France, and I...
697To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 10 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have just steped out of Congress to let you hear by this opportunity that your freinds in this part of the world are well & not unmindful of you & to acknowledge the rec t of yours from Reedy Island which after long & weary-some peregrinations reached ^ me ^ three days ago at this place— The Cypher it contains is not sufficiently intricate to be in any wise relyed on if the conveyance by...
698To John Jay from William Carmichael, 15 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I arrived in this city late in the Evening of the 11 th after a tedious and Disagreable Journey. We had heavy rains for more than two thirds of the time, which render’d the roads so very bad that neither persuasion, threats or money could induce our Muleteers to proceed faster. My own State of health and the situation in which I left Cadiz would have prevented me from quitting the company [ of...
699To John Jay from William Carmichael, 18 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I did myself the honor of writing to you by a Courier whom the French Embassador dispatched to Cadiz yesterday morning since which I have been introduced by Him to their excellencies the Marquis de Florida Blanca & Don Joseph de Galvez. I deliver[ed] your letter to the latter and explain[ed] to the former the reason which induce[d] you [to] address the other
700To John Jay from Floridablanca, 24 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
Habiendo yo recibido de mano del S r . D n . José de Galvez la carta que V. S. le hà dirigido por medio de M r . de Carmichael, y hecho presente al Rey todo su contexto; me manda responda à V. S. diciendole que S. M. há celebrado, y aplaudido la eleccion que de su persona há hecho el Congreso Americano para el encargo que expresa dha carta, asi por lo recomendables que son para S. M los...
701To John Jay from William Bingham, 25 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have greatly Suffered from the Consideration of the Inconviencies that both you & M rs Jay must have been exposed to on your Passage from hence, arising from the scanty Accommodations of the French Frigate— I trembled at the thoughts of it before your Departure, but I was fearfull of mentioning it, least I might anticipate that Uneasiness of Mind which I am confident you must have...
702To John Jay from William Carmichael, 26 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I wait[ed] on his excellency the Conde de Florida Blanca yesterday agreable to the appointm t . of which I had the honor to give you notice the 18 th instant. he in a very polite and gracious manner told me that your letter
703To John Jay from Jean Baptiste de Ternant, 26 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
I take the opportunity of the packet to drop you a few lines about the subject of my mission here, & the situation of affairs in the sothn States . . .—on the 17 th . of decemb r . last, upon an application from the Chev r . dela Luzerne, indicating the views of his C a . Majesty upon the floridas, & requesting the concurrence of the confederal forces; Congress resolved, to empower the...
704To John Jay from Floridablanca, 9 March 1780 (Jay Papers)
Avant que de pouvoir entrer en matiere avec M rs : Jay et Carmichael, eux deux ensemble ou separemment, sur les affaires des Etats Unis de l’Amerique Septentrionelle et de leurs Interets mutuels vis a vis de l’Espagne, l’on juge a Madrid indispensable que le Roi Catholique soit exactement instruit de l’état civil & militaire des Provinces Americaines, et de toutes leurs ressources pour la...
705To John Jay from Vergennes, 13 March 1780 (Jay Papers)
M. Jay, ancien president du Congres des Etatsunis de L’Amérique Sept. &c J’ai reçu, M. la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire Le 27. Janvr. dr. J’ai été très sensible a La marque de confiance que vous avez bien voulu me donner en me communiquant l’objet de votre mission; vous connoissez trop bien les liens qui attachent le Roi aux Etats unis, pour n’etre pas certain, que S. Mte...
706To John Jay from Arthur Lee, 17 March 1780 (Jay Papers)
I had not the honor of receiving your favor dated Cadis, the 26 th . of Jany. ’till this day & at this place, where I am to embark as soon as the Alliance is ready. Your Letter had a double Seal upon it, the undermost seeming to be a head, & the one above a Coat of Arms, but what I cannot clearly make out. I mention this that you may judge whether these Seals were of your applying. Give me...
707To John Jay from Gouverneur Morris, 20 March 1780 (Jay Papers)
The Disaster you met with and the Delay occasioned by it will make all my Letters old before you see them— Your Note from Martinique the Day after your arrival shuts my Mouth as to any Thing worth your knowing. This Letter will go by a circuitous Rout but I trust a safe one. I shall therefore mention that Congress have anvilled out another new System of Finance the Plain English of which is a...
708To John Jay from Benjamin Franklin, 7 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have been sometime in Suspense about Writing to you, not knowing whether you were at Cadiz or Madrid. But being inform’d a few Days since that you had set out for the latter, I now acknowledge the receipt of your several Favours of Sept. 26. from Philadelphia. Dec r 27 from Martinique, Jan 26 th . & 28 th and March 3 d from Cadiz. The Account you give of the prudent & pleasing Conduct of M....
709To John Jay from Montmorin, 13 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
M. de Montmorin a reçu ce matin le billet de M. Jay. Il le remercie de l’avis qu’il veut bien lui faire passer. M r . de Montmorin en sent toute l’importance; et quoiqu’il soit bien loin de former le moindre doute sur la façon de penser du Ministere Espagnol il ne laissera pas de prendre ses précautions pour être instruit de tout ce qui pourroit avoir raport a l’arrivée de Sir John Dalrymple....
710To John Jay from Étienne d’Audibert Caille, 21 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
Par ordre de S. M. L’Empereur de Maroc, J’ecrivis le 6 Septembre de l’annee derniere a Mgrs du Congres des Etats Unis de l’Amerique Septentrionale par voie de S. Ex ce M. le Docteur Franklin leur Plenipotentiaire a la Cour de France pour leur faire scavoir les intentions pacifiques de ce Souverain. N’ayant point encore reçu aucune reponse de leur part Je crains que ma lettre ne leur soit point...