Document, 1775 December 23
- Title:
- Document, 1775 December 23
- Library Location:
- New-York Historical Society
(Non-Columbia Location)
- Name:
- Jay, John, 1745-1829; McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786
- Format:
- correspondence
- Digital Project:
- Papers of John Jay
- Date:
- 1775 December 23
- Note:
- The entire content of the original has been digitized.
- Physical Description:
- 1
- Subjects:
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary:
- Congress it seems will not adjourn even for the holy days. Wishes that the
absent members of the New York delegation would return. There is just a quorum. What has
become of Queens and Richmond counties? Rival governments in politics are solecisms.
Light taxes should begin to be imposed rather as precedent than as profit. It would tend
to encourage manufacturers, essential to the support of the poor. When our fellow
mortals are busy and well fed, they forget to complain.
- Identifier:
- columbia.jay.00746
Document, 1775 December 23
