Autograph draft version of document 10328. Difficulty of receiving mail through the post office. Encloses a copy of a letter from Silas Talbot, a prisoner at Plymouth, requesting aid. The request seems justified , but Jay has not the funds to grant it. Little attention has been paid to captured American seamen.
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United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829