Title
[Document, 1794 May 27]
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Name
Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813 (Author)
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
May 27, 1794
Language
English
Physical Description
4 pages
Subjects
United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Code paragraph. Agent in West Indies, will forward all documents to John Jay, but Randolph also transmits such papers on "vexations and spoliations" as he has received. Mr. Hammond behaves like a Minister foreseeing war with the United States and collecting all information to swell the list of grievances. Magnifies small grievances and invents some others. Anti-British growing with each new complaint from American captains returning from West Indies. Instructions of 9 January seem to have changed nothing. Governor. Simcoe marching to the Miami to establish a fort. British official policy unclear. Transmits proceedings at New Port. To prove that the United States allows French no advantages, refers John Jay to measures in Kentucky, South Carolina and Georgia. Reminds John Jay that no surrender of United States forts or territory is to be considered.
Identifier
columbia.jay.08632