Title
[Document, 1800 January 31]
Library Location
Name
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
Mersereau, Joshua, Jr. (Addressee)
Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
January 31, 1800
Language
English
Physical Description
2 pages
Subjects
United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Appoint Joshua Mersereau, Jr., of Chenango as attorney to sell to best advantage eight lots of 150 acres each situated in a tract on the Chenengo River, granted to John Jay and John Rutherfurd, to enter into contracts with purchasers in their names, and to make arrangements for payment. The document bears a note in another hand indicating that "Jonathan Daylons deed to me is for one equell seventh part of the Section number twenty three...which Section contains in the whole six hundred and forty acres." Signed by John Jay, Peter Augustus Jay and Maria Jay.
Identifier
columbia.jay.12308