Document, 1798 April n.d.
Document, 1798 April n.d.
- Title
- Document, 1798 April n.d.
- Library Location
- New-York Historical Society
- Name
- New York (N.Y.) (Addressee)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- 1798 April n.d.
- Physical Description
- 7
- Subjects
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- 23 April - memorial of a Committee of the Chamber of Commerce to the Corporation of the City of New York. Suggest that 18 or 20 cannon mounted on field carriages would afford "prompt means of resisting the attacks of a few inferior vessels." 30 April - extract from the minutes of the Common Council of the Corporation of New York City. Resolved that the Governor be requested to apply to the President of the U.S. for 16 cannon for use in defense of the city.
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.00899