54431To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 3 July 1812 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your letter by Charles Watkins & also that of William & will attend to the Commissions mentioned in both. I have rec d . of Thomas Eddy $189.80 for Interest on his bond to the 28 th . May last. M r & M rs . Munro have this morning executed the partition Deeds which William will take with him for your Signature. Shall I now speak to Col: Barclay? Alexander Fisher came down in the...
54432John Adams to John Jay, 21 March 1792 (Hamilton Papers)
A difference of opinion having arisen among those of the Trustees of the Sinking Fund, who are now in this City, respecting the construction of their authority under the Act making provision for the Reduction of the Public Debt, by which they are equally divided, your presence here towards settling the principle which is in question, in order to the future conduct of the business, has become...
54433To John Jay from Sarah Livingston Jay, 5[–7] December 1784 (Jay Papers)
Your letter of the 28 th . reached me last fryday; & from the date of that & y r . former letter I find that both were written at the same times, perhaps the same ins ts . that mine to you were wrote, & I enjoy’d the idea that we had been mutually employed in marking our attention to each other at ^ the ^ same ins t . of time. how happy for us my Love that Space seperates not the minds as well...
54434To John Jay from John Adams, 22 February 1786 (Jay Papers)
On Monday Evening another Conference was held with the Tripolitan Ambassador, attended with his Interpreter Benamor who is a decent Man, and very ready in the English as well as Arabick and Italian. The Foreign Ministers here say it is the Custom of all the Ambassadors from Barbary to be much connected with Jews to whom they are commonly recommended. It may be supposed the Jews have interested...
54435To John Jay from Conrad Alexandre Gérard, 14 January 1779 (Jay Papers)
J’ai recu la lettre dont vous m’avez honoré le 13 de ce mois en m’envoyant la resolution du Congrès en reponse aux representations que j’ai eu l’honneur de lui faire en date du 5. et du 10. Je vous prie de recevoir et de faire agréer au Congrès toute la Sensibilité avec la quelle j’ai vu la maniere franche noble et cathegorique avec la quelle il a detruit des insinuations fausses et...
54436From John Adams to John Jay, 8 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
It would be of little Consequence to Us, whether there was a Union between Great Britain and Ireland or not, or whether M r Pitts 20 Propositions are accepted or not, provided both these Countries Should be allowed to trade with the United States upon free and equal Terms, but the design is too apparent at least too suspicious, of drawing Ireland into the Shackles of the navigation Acts, in...
54437From John Adams to John Jay, 9 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
I went to Court Yesterday Morning, if not in despair, with very faint hopes of ever receiving an Answer to any Letter or Memorial of mine to the British Ministry.— I went early, but found three of the foreign Ministers before me. The Rule is to admit them to his Lordship in the order in which they arrive. in my Turn I was Shewn into his Lordships Appartement received very politely as usual,...
54438To John Jay from Rufus King, 9 September 1797 (Jay Papers)
What we know of the negotiations between france Austria and England, gives little encouragement to hope that their issue will be pacific— The internal Situation of france is alarming; instead of a Reconciliation between the Directory & the Councils, the breach appears to grow wider— Both sides court the Armies, and a civil war seems to be organizing itself— I send you a posthumous work of M r...
54439To John Jay from Benjamin Moore, 7 April 1804 (Jay Papers)
I have been waiting until this time, with the expectation that it would be in my power to return a positive answer to your Letter. But, since M r . Le Roy saw you at Bedford, new difficulties seem to have arisen among our Vestrymen; and by the variety of opinions which, you know, will ever prevail when a number are to be consulted on any occasion, the business has hitherto been protracted...
54440To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 17 September 1782 (Jay Papers)
I have at length been favored with a private Letter from you which gives me great pleasure not only because it assures me of your health & that of M rs . Jay but because it is expressive of that friendship which I should be sorrey to see lost in the ocean of politics in which we have both launched our barks. I am sorrey for the ill health of my little god daughter but as the disorders she...