Peter Jay to David Peloquin, 15 November 1763
Peter Jay to David Peloquin
[Rye, 15 November 1763]
Your kind favours of the 26 July 6 & 10 Augt together with the Magazines are come to hand by Capt. Chambers.1
I’m much obliged to you for your information of the result of an enquiry you have favour’d me with abot. puting my Son John out to an Attorney—2 the Sum required to be paid down with him, and his engagemt. for 5 years, is a Consideration alone, exclusive of a farther necessary expence for his intertainmt. during that long Term, that inclines me to wait the result of Jemmy’s enquiry in London, being inform’d that what is necessary for John to learn before he enters the Temple, to compleat his Studyes, is attainable in an Attorney’s Office in less than too years, so that it would be learning too dear bought on your Attorny’s Terms—I’m obliged to you for the paymt you have made Mr. Piquenit,3
and you’ve Credit for it
My daughtr. Evey4 is now better again, but is not altogether free from the bad Effects of her indisposition. She is still too frequently seized by a little lurking fever.
The Savages continue their cruel Ravages on the frontiers, and have hitherto been but faintly opposed,—the Genl. requires 1400 Men to be raised in and at the Expence of this Province,—it ^and is^ now undr. consideration of our Assembly.5
My Wife and children join with me in Sincere regard & affection for you and our dear Cousins your Sisters, and I always am
LbkC, in the hand of PJ, NNC: Peter Jay Lbk. 3 (EJ: 11191). Addressed: “Davd. Peloquin Esqr. in Bristol, per the Grace.”
1. 26 July–6 Aug. 1763, above; David Peloquin to PJ, 10 Aug. 1763, Peloquin-Jay Correspondence, microfilm, NNC (EJ: 11807).
2. See above, David Peloquin to PJ, 26 July–6 Aug. 1763.
3. See above, PJ to David Peloquin, 14 Apr. 1763.
4. Eve Jay Munro.
5. In a letter to Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader Colden of New York of 30 Oct. 1763, Jeffrey Amherst asked that the province furnish 1,400 troops for a spring campaign on the northern frontier. Colden presented this request to the assembly on 9 Nov., but the legislature balked at furnishing such a large body of men when none were demanded of the New England colonies. Instead, the assembly authorized the enlistment of 600 additional men for frontier defense; these, with the 173 already in the province’s pay, brought New York’s total of colonial soldiers to 773. Colden to the Earl of Halifax, 8 Dec. 1763, N.Y. Col. Docs., 7: 586–87.