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