Name
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
United States. Navy Board of the Eastern Department (Addressee)
Title
[Document, 1781 March 19]
Abstract
An ordinance here requires that all letters be put in the post office subject to the same postage as if they had come in a royal packet boat from New Spain. Letters henceforth should be sent to Gardoqui at Bilboa or to Harrison at Cadiz with a request to forward them to John Jay. Asks for a copy of the Constitution of Massachusetts. "If we should be deluded into a careless security by uncertain pro spects and precarious probabilities of peace we shall instantly cease to be respectable in the eyes of our friends or formidable in those of our enemies, and consequently be in a situation rather to receive than insist upon the terms of it."
Subjects
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Format
correspondence
Genre
correspondence
Date
March 19, 1781
Physical Description
2 pages
Language
English
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Also In
The papers of John Jay
Copyright Status
No Copyright - United States
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/cptz-1v53