Document, 1781 March 19

Title
Document, 1781 March 19
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Name
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
United States. Navy Board of the Eastern Department (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
1781 March 19
Physical Description
2
Subjects
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
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 prospects 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."
Identifier
columbia.jay.08814