Document, 1786 February 22
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- Title
- Document, 1786 February 22
- Library Location
- Name
- Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Author)
- Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- 1786 February 22
- Physical Description
- 0 pages
- Subjects
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- Another conference with the Tripoline Ambassador: a treaty will cost the United States about 200 thousand pounds sterling. Suggests a loan from Holland. Treaty will raise the "character" of the United States all over the world, commerce and the navigation would extend into the Mediterranean, etc., and the additional profits would "richly repay the interest and our credit would be adequate to all our wants." If Congress should not agree to treat with the demands, it might be to the interest of individual States "to obtain peace and security for its ships at a much cheaper rate."
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.11884