[Document, 1785 September 27]
- Title
- [Document, 1785 September 27]
- Library Location
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
- Name
- Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
- Price, Richard, 1723-1791 (Addressee)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- September 27, 1785
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 2 pages
- Subjects
- United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- Advises Mr. Curtaults not to commence farming immediately because his lack of experience may prove his undoing. Impossibility of finding perfect freedom in the terrestrial state. Impropriety of fighting for freedom, yet keeping other human beings in slavery. Perseverance in the service of country is the only course of men who hope that this situation will change.
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.08859