Title
[Document, 1798 August 11]
Library Location
Name
Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823 (Author)
Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
August 11, 1798
Language
English
Physical Description
1 page
Subjects
United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Will accept the command of the Artillery if this is Jay's wish. Hopes the Legislature will "do something handsome, towards completing our fortifications." Suitable persons have been employed to survey the land and take soundings between the Narrows and the Island; a report will be transmitted when completed. His reason for declining the command of the corps lately under Colonel Baumann was that he was overlooked in an earlier opening by Governor Clinton, which "wounded my military pride."
Identifier
columbia.jay.00874