54451From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 29 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
I have written you lately on the 24th. of June with a P.S. of the 25th.; on the 29th. of the same month; the 19th. of July with a P.S. of the 21st: and again on the 23d. Yesterday I received yours of the 9th. of March by the way of Holland. Mr. Necker has accepted his appointment and will arrive to-day from Switzerland where he had taken refuge. No other ministers have been named since my...
54452To John Jay from John Lathrop, 9 February 1801 (Jay Papers)
Permit me to request your acceptance of the discourse which I take the liberty to inclose.— A hope that what I had prepared for a small congregation in Boston, might in some feeble manner, co-operate with the labours of great and good men, to support those institutions which have raised the American people to the rank they hold among the nations of the earth, overcame the reluctance which I...
54453To John Jay from William Livingston, 18 January 1790 (Jay Papers)
Yesterday I was called upon by a Sailor of the name of Charles Blinckhorn, who told me that he lives in West Nottingham in Maryland where he has a Wife & 3 Children, and whither he is now travelling on foot from Boston, where he lately arrived from Sea— That he sailed as Cook on Board the Brig Betsey commanded by Cap n . Joseph Ross out of the Port of Philadelphia in Aug t . 1785. That they...
54454To John Jay from John Trumbull, 25 March 1799 (Jay Papers)
Since I wrote to you last on the 20 th . Sep tr : I have been honoured with your two Letters of the 29 th . Sep tr . and 12 Dec er . last, for both which I beg you to accept my thanks. Our Business of the Commission creeps slowly on, and we are obliged to wend our way cautiously through the numberless obstacles & Delays which the ingenuity of Doctors Commons, or the complicated forms of...
54455To John Jay from Robert R. Livingston, 27 December 1786 (Jay Papers)
I received yours covering the papers from Maryland this day. And enclose an answer which I must pray you to forward I have accepted the appointment principally induced thereto by your being my colleague You have heard of the issue of our Massachusetts business But you may not have heard that while we were meeting at Hartford their Commissioners were treating with the Indians for the purchase...
54456To John Jay from Alexander Hamilton, 27 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
I was very sorry when at Albany not to have seen You. I called the day after my arrival but you were then indisposed or abroad & the rest of my stay I was very unwell. An apprehension is excited here that in consequence of the Petitions of the Militia Officers the persons named to the new Companies will not be appointed. I take it for granted that this must be a groundless apprehension as far...
54457From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 11 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of the last night, written in the moment of Mrs. Barclay’s departure, I had the honour of mentioning to you that it was now pretty certain that the States general would be assembled in the next year, and probably in the month of May. This morning an Arret is published, announcing that their meeting is fixed at the first day of May next, of which I enclose you a copy by post, in...
54458To John Jay from Philip Schuyler, 1772 (Jay Papers)
Permit me to remind you that the Social Club commences this evening at this place, and that I shall be happy only in part If you are not of the party—Yours Sincerely &c &c— ALS , NNC ( EJ : 9345 ). Walter Heyer (d. 1803) owned an inn at the intersection of Pine (then King) Street and Nassau Street. Daily Advertiser , 20 Dec. 1786. In the 1787 New York City directory, Heyer was listed as a...
54459To John Jay from Robert Troup, 15 May 1777 (Jay Papers)
The Day after I arrived your Letter, to the General, came safe to Hand. He is pleased with the Contents, and doubts not you will do every Thing in your Power to promote the Good of the service.— Our Remoteness from Continental Congress will frequently oblige us to ask the Assistance of your Legislature. This, I am confident, will be readily granted if they possess that Spirit which marked the...
54460Commission to the Minister Plenipotentiary to Spain, 29 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
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...
54461To John Jay from Richard Varick, 24 September 1798 (Jay Papers)
On Saturday Evening last (by post) I had the honor of receiving your Excellency’s favor of the 17 th .— It is true that the Attorney General was in Custody in his own House at the suit of Brockholst Livingston, who while in Town promised to forbear & when gone the Ca. Sa was issued.— The Business was adjusted last Monday & the Attorney General set off Express to Delaware Oyer & Terminer. An...
54462From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 11 August 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since the date of my last, which was of July 8. I have been honoured with the receipt of yours of June 16. I am to thank you on the part of the minister of Geneva for the intelligence it contained on the subject of Gallatin, whose relations will be relieved by the receipt of it. The inclosed intelligence relative to the instructions of the court of London to Sr. Guy Carleton come to me thro’...
54463From John Adams to John Jay, 2 September 1782 (Adams Papers)
I wrote you on the 10th. 13th. and 17th. of August, but have no Answer as yet to either Letter. All is well here, and will not only remain so but grow better and better. Since it is from Bows and Smiles and Invitations to Dinner and Such kind of Indications that We are to collect the deep Politicks of Courts, I Suppose I may augur well for your Negotiations with Spain, because I have lately...
54464From Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 17 September 1798 (Hamilton Papers)
The death of Mr. Remsen presents a vacancy of Notary which will be sought. Two applications are made to me—one by James Inglis Junr. who has just finished a Clerkship with me & taken a license as Atty in the Supreme Court—the other William Coleman lately connected in law business with Col Burr. Inglis is a young man of handsome abilities, of application & of irreproacheable conduct. He is a...
54465To John Jay from John Trumbull, 3 July 1789 (Jay Papers)
M r . Jefferson’s letter to me of the 29 th . June covering the enclos’d, has this passage— “I took the liberty on the 26 th . of troubling you with a packet for Mr Jay, giving him an account of the crisis into which the sceance royale of the 23 d . had thrown this country.— the enclosd &c &c”— this Letter of the 26 th . has not come to my hands, & whether by being entrusted to the Post, it...
54466From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 30 May 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
A further delay of Mr. Warville enables me to acknolege the receipt of your letter of April 24. by Mr. Paradise. Nothing new has occurred since the date of my other letters which go by this conveiance: except that about one third of the Baillages have accepted their appointments. If the others pretty generally should do the same, and the Chatelet be brought over it will place government pretty...
54467To 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....
54468To John Jay from John Vaughan, [before 27 June] 1788 (Jay Papers)
I have perused with Singular pleasure some thoughts on the Constitution addressed to the State of NYk & was expressing my Sentiments to our good friend D r Franklin—who observed that if you was the Author (as Said) he thought it incumbent upon you to put your name to it—to give it additional Weight at this awful Crisis I call it awful because a rejection in your State would be productive of...
54469To John Jay from Robert Morris, 7 July 1781 (Jay Papers)
This will accompany my former Letter of the 4 th Instant, which you will perceive to be so written, as that it may be shewn if necessary to the spanish Minister. You will make such Use of it as Prudence may dictate. I would gladly now give you Details of our Situation and Plans for reforming it But I have not yet sufficiently obtained the one, nor mastered the other. Whenever I am in Capacity...
54470From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 8 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Count de Moustier , minister plenipotentiary from the court of Versailles to the United states will have the honour of delivering you this. The connection of your offices will necessarily connect you in acquaintance: but I beg leave to present him to you on account of his personal as well as his public character. You will find him open, communicative, candid, simple in his manners, and a...
54471To John Jay from Philip Schuyler, 29 April 1779 (Jay Papers)
Yesterday I was honored with your Excellency’s Letter of the 20 th covering the Act of Congress permitting my Resignation— I embrace the Opportunity of an Express to his Excellency General Washington to acknowledge the Receipt of it. The Distance at which Mess rs . Wolcott and Edwards reside from this place will not often permit those Gentlemen to afford M r . Dow their Aid on the Business of...
54472From George Washington to John Jay, 27 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am to request that Congress will be pleased to give directions to have the military chest supplied with a sufficient sum of money to enable me to carry into execution their resolve of the 23 instant for recruiting the army during the war. Every moment is so precious, that it is to be wished notime may be lost in improving this important measure to the greatest advantage. In the papers from...
54473John Adams to John Jay, 31 January 1785 (Adams Papers)
Last Night, I had a visit from the Marquis, whom I was glad to see, for a variety of Reasons: his Representations of the Commerce, the Union, and the other Circumstances of our Country are very flattering and as he has so lately seen so many Parts, he was able to give more Information, than the generality of other Travellers. His views are now opening, at least in confidence to me, and his...
54474From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 12 March 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The date of a letter from London will doubtless be as unexpected to you as it was unforeseen by myself a few days ago. On the 27th. of the last month Colo. Smith arrived in Paris with a letter from Mr. Adams informing me that there was at this place a minister from Tripoli, having general powers to enter into treaties on behalf of his state, and with whom it was possible we might do something...
54475To John Jay from John Adams, 11 November 1785 (Jay Papers)
There is no better Advice to be given to the Merchants of the United States, than to push their Commerce to the East Indies as fast and as far as it will go. If Information from Persons who ought to know may be depended on, the Tobacco and Peltries as well as the Ginseng of the United States, are proper Articles for the China Markett, and have been found to answer very well, and many other of...
54476To John Jay from George Clinton, 29 April 1778 (Jay Papers)
A few Days since M r . Benson enclosed Lord Norths famous Speech (in the English House of Commons) to M r . McKesson for the perusal of the Court & I now enclose you Copies of the two Bills aluded to therein. His Lordship is two years too late with this political Maneuvre— This at the Time of his former Conciliatory Proposition (as he calls it) woud have divided & ruined us. At this Day it...
54477To John Jay from Jedidiah Morse, 14 January 1797 (Jay Papers)
Soon after I had the honour of receiving your Letter wh[ic]h accompanied the Laws of N York, I wrote you by a vessel bound to N. York & accompanied my Letter with a Sett of the last Edit[io] n of my Geog[raph] y . in boards for your acceptance. It was as long ago as October last. I hope they reached you safely. The hint you dropped when I last saw you, relative to my undertaking to write the...
54478George Washington to John Jay, 11 May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] May 11, 1779 . Discusses New Jersey remonstrance. Concludes that reported lack of cattle “will sensibly affect our Western expedition.” LS , in writing of H, Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives.
54479To John Jay from George Washington, 19 November 1790 (Jay Papers)
The day is near, when Congress is to commence its third Session; and on Monday next— nothing intervening to prevent it— I shall set out to meet them at their new Residence.— If any thing in the Judiciary line— if any thing of a more general nature, proper for me to communicate to that body at the opening of the Session, has occurred to you, you would oblige me by submitting them with the...
54480From George Washington to John Jay, 24 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been honoured, in due order, with Your Excellency’s several Favors of the 15. 17 & 19 Instant with the Papers to which they refer. I shall direct the earliest Returns to be made, that circumstances will admit, of the Officers—Soldiers &c., who are the Objects of the Act of the 15th—and will transmit them to the Board of War. Captain Greene’s case shall also have my attention—and his...
54481From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 13 March 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Adams having announced to our bankers here his approaching departure from Europe, and referred them to me for counsel on our affairs in their hands, they sent me a state of them, and of the difficulties which were pressing at the moment, and impending more seriously for the month of June. They were urging me by almost every post on this subject. In this situation, information of Mr....
54482George Washington to John Jay, 14 May 1779 (Hamilton Papers)
Middlebrook [ New Jersey ] May 14, 1779 . Reports that deputies from Delaware Nation have arrived in Camp and have been referred to Congress. Df , in writing of H, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.
54483To John Jay from William Bingham, 29 August 1785 (Jay Papers)
I lately spent a few Days at Amsterdam, where I had an opportunity of making some Enquiries respecting the Failure of Mess de la Lande & Fynjie, one of the Houses employed by M r Adams in the Negotiation of the Loan on Account of the United States— This Loan having failed of Success in several Attempts made by other Houses in Amsterdam, it was at length committed to the Management of Mess rs ....
54484To John Jay from Richard Peters, 21 February 1826 (Jay Papers)
I am recovering from a long spell of our fashionable Influenza which is leaving me debilitated; but not materially injured. Generally, thro’ a long pilgrimage, I have had no ^durable^ ill health or disease, chronic or temporary. So that it would be ingratitude to a kind providence, in me to complain. I often think of the few old friends left behind the multitudes who are gone to that...
54485To John Jay from Lansdowne, 4 September 1785 (Jay Papers)
I have been honour’d with your Letter. If what you desire depended on myself, I should be happy in the opportunity of doing Justice to a worthy Man, & at the same time shewing my respect for your Publick & Private Character. I have done every thing in my power by leaving your Letter with Lord Sydney, & recommending the contents of it to him in nearly the above Terms—His Lordship assur’d me...
54486From John Adams to John Jay, 25 October 1785 (Adams Papers)
The Crown of Great Britain has Sometimes, pledged its Prerogative to relax the Navigation Act, but the Parliament and Nation would not admit of it. By the 15. Article of the definitive Treaty, between Great Britain and Portugal, Signed at Lisbon the 16. May 1703 “The Personal Priviledges and Freedom of Trade , which the Subjects of Great Britain, and the States of the United Provinces, at...
54487To John Jay from Philip Schuyler, 17 August 1777 (Jay Papers)
This morning I had the pleasure to recieve your favor of the 12 th . Instant. M r . Duane has acknowledged the receipt of my letter to you Inclosing the orders &c. I am happy that he thinks my “Conduct needs no Apology” he also Informd me that the mottives for my removal were the same as you gave. They were certainly sufficient to Induce Congress to the measure but they might have done me the...
54488To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 28 October 1814 (Jay Papers)
Judge Van Ness threw me a Note of which the above is a Copy while I was attending the Supreme Court this Morning— I thought the best way to make the Inquiries he desired would be to send you a Copy of the Note— There is no Declaration yet filed against Clark, & consequently no Judgment can be obtained against him for at least three months, probably not before six & perhaps not till nine...
54489To John Jay from Peter Jay, 23 August 1763 (Jay Papers)
Your Letter and Box p r . Barker is received—y r Letter p r . Alley was deliver’d me since Fady was here,— it’s more safe to send y r . Letters &c a . p r . Barker— Your observation on the Study of the Law, I believe, is very just, and as it’s y r inclination to be of that Profession, I hope you’ll closely attend to it with a firm Resolution that no difficultyes in prossecuting that Study...
54490From George Washington to John Jay, 1 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have been a little surprised, that the several important pieces of intelligence lately received from Europe (such parts of it I mean as are circulated without reserve in Conversn) have not yet been given to the public in a manner calculated to attract the attention & impress the Minds of the people. As they are now propagated, they run through the Country in a variety of forms, are...
54491To John Jay from George Washington, 15 April 1794 (Jay Papers)
At as early an hour this morning, as you can make convenient to yourself, I should be glad to see you— At eight o’clock we breakfast. at which ^Then^, or after, as suits you best, I will expect to have the satisfaction of conversing with you on an interesting subject. Yours always & sincerely DftS , DLC : Washington ( EJ : 10609 ; EJ : 12425 ); LbkC , DLC : Washington. PGW: PS
54492From Benjamin Franklin to John Jay, 30 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : Royal Library, Windsor; AL (draft) and two copies: Library of Congress You acquaint me that Bills have appear’d drawn on you in March last, and ask very properly if this can be reconciled to the obvious Dictates of Prudence & Policy?— It cannot. And if you are unable to pay them, they must be protested: For it will not be in my Power to help you. And I see that nothing will cure the...
54493To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 26 April 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have this Afternoon put on board Capt Lansings Sloop 15 Barrels of Wine, 1 Case of Flasks with d o Nine Boxes of Prints & Pictures & small Articles of Glass & China & one small black trunk— I have sent you all the wine except two Barrels whose hoops appeared too insecure to be trusted— I will send you a List of the Contents in a Letter by Capt. Lansing— I have just returned from the Society...
54494From Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 3 August 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
My last letters to you were of the 4th. and 23d. of May, with a postscript of the 27th. Since that I have been honoured with yours of Apr. 24. May 16. and June 9. The most remarkeable internal occurrences since my last are these. The Noblesse of Bretagne, who had received with so much warmth the late innovations in the government, assembled and drew up a memorial to the king and chose 12....
54495To John Jay from Egbert Benson, 13 June 1795 (Jay Papers)
I congratulate You on Your Election, but for much the same Reason as the Turkish Governor not long since, when he could hold out no longer, surrendered to the Russians, he perceived it had been so decreed from the Beginning— Not caring any thing however about the Will, either of the Fates or of the Electors, I am extremely happy You have returned to Us, and I shall be made more so, when I find...
54496From John Adams to John Jay, 10 August 1782 (Adams Papers)
It was with very great pleasure that I recd. this morning your kind favor of the 2d. inst. I am surprized to learn that your and Mrs: Jay’s health have been disordered in France where the air is so fine. That your anxieties have been very great I doubt not—that most of them were such as you ought not to have met with, I can easily conceive. I can sincerely say, that all mine, but my Fever,...
54497To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 13 May 1798 (Jay Papers)
It is now some time since I had the pleasure of hearing from you— this I attribute to your having been at Schenectady where I perceive by the Papers you was present at the Commencement— M r . Seth Marvin some time ago applied to me to purchase your Share of Lot N o . 18 in Cheesecocks Patent (containing as he says 195 Acres) for which he offered 24/pr. Acre, but it appeared during our...
54498To John Jay from Robert Troup, 13 June 1792 (Jay Papers)
The Clintonian canvassers by fraud & violence have excluded you from the Government— The votes of Otsego— Tioga—& Clinton Counties have been rejected— Those of Tioga were returned by a deputy’s deputy which made their return questionable & those of Clinton by a deputy appointed by the Sheriff by parol. Both Burr & King were of opinion that a parol deputation was good & there is no doubt that...
54499From Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 7 May 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
You have been informed of the loss of our Election in this City. It is also known that we have been unfortunate throughout Long Island & in West Chester. According to the Returns hitherto, it is too probable that we lose our Senators for this District. The moral certainty therefore is that there will be an Anti-fœderal Majority in the Ensuing Legislature, and this very high probability is that...
54500To John Jay from Beverly Robinson, 19 January 1823 (Jay Papers)
Knowing as I think I do my own heart, and the Impression which an Act of kindness has never failed to make upon it, I am utterly at a loss to account for my long silence to you upon a subject on which I should have spoken many years ago— Month after Month and Year after Year have I intended to visit you, and express an Obligation, which, I lament to say, you have every reason to suppose I...