Document, 1779 August 17
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- Name
- Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
- Wadsworth, Jeremiah (Addressee)
- Title
- Document, 1779 August 17
- Abstract
- To the commissary general. Autograph Letter signed. "The Reasons which at present induce many good men to avoid holding Places in the Staff Departments, ought in my opinion ot stimulate them to the Confidence of the People, than for men of known and established Reputation in each State to take Employment in them ..." Recommends his brother Frederick f or such a post: " ... Tho bred a merchant, h e has since the EVacuation of New York declined Commerce ... has highterto declined those Places in which a mans Reputation is often exposed to ... unmerited Censure." (Listed in unidentified catalog #15)
- Subjects
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Format
- correspondence
- Genre
- letters (correspondence)
- Date
- 1779 August 17
- Physical Description
- 2
- Note
- The entire content of the original has been digitized.
- Also In
- The papers of John Jay
- Copyright Status
- No Known Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/qn0y-0e97