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Document, 1827 October 08

5501. Document, 1827 October 08

Document, 1827 October 11

5502. Document, 1827 October 11

Document, 1827 October 12

5503. Document, 1827 October 12

Document, 1828 April 12

5504. Document, 1828 April 12

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 April 12
  • Summary: Family and business news, including statement that there is a demand for money in the area. William says his own commission has not expired as judge. And since Judge Tompkins did not choose to resign his commission, his party, ...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1828 August 31

5505. Document, 1828 August 31

  • Name: Jay, Maria (Author) Jay, Anna (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 August 31
  • Summary:
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1828 December 16

5506. Document, 1828 December 16

Document, 1828 February 17

5507. Document, 1828 February 17

Document, 1828 January 05

5508. Document, 1828 January 05

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 January 05
  • Summary: Family and business matters. Mentions that he had attended a meeting of the managers of his Bible Society and had found an unusual number of families without a Bible. The Society will supply them all with a Bible.
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1828 July 07

5509. Document, 1828 July 07

Document, 1828 June 10

5510. Document, 1828 June 10

  • Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 June 10
  • Summary: He is 85 years old today. Is free of envy, hatred and malice, and will leave this world with no enmities. Has no desire to write pamphlets on political or personal dissensions as an "old revolutionary friend" continues to do. H...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1828 June 10

5511. Document, 1828 June 10

  • Name: Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 June 10
  • Summary: He is 85 years old today. Is free of envy, hatred and malice, and will leave this world with no enmities. Has no desire to write pamphlets on political or personal dissensions as an "old revolutionary friend" continues to do. H...
  • Number of Images: 5
Document, 1828 June 20

5512. Document, 1828 June 20

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Peters, Richard, 1743-1828 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 June 20
  • Summary: Writes on behalf of his father since the latter has suffered an inflammation of his right hand. General debility confines him to the house. It would give him pleasure if he could commit his ideas to paper to enlarge on the poli...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1828 March 13

5513. Document, 1828 March 13

Document, 1828 May 14

5514. Document, 1828 May 14

  • Name: Remington, Anson (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 May 14
  • Summary: Has been informed Jay had made inquiries for a musician to play violin for the relief of Mr.[____], who is suffering from "The Magrams." He would be available for a short time. He lives in Pound Ridge, the first house west of M...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1828 October 05

5515. Document, 1828 October 05

Document, 1828 October 15

5516. Document, 1828 October 15

Document, 1828 October 20

5517. Document, 1828 October 20

Document, 1828 September 05

5518. Document, 1828 September 05

Document, 1828 September 29

5519. Document, 1828 September 29

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1828 September 29
  • Summary: Enclosing copy of letter dated 29 Sept 1828 from William Jay to Jonathan Lyon William tells Peter of the court work in his county, a surprising number of criminal cases and seemingly related to Bedford's proximity to New York C...
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, 1829 April 18

5520. Document, 1829 April 18

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1829 April 18
  • Summary: Thanks God for all blessings. Requests a decent funeral but without ostentation, instead giving $200 to a deserving widow or orphan of the town. Gives all manuscripts, books and papers other than such as respect his own or othe...
  • Number of Images: 7
Document, 1829 April 19

5521. Document, 1829 April 19

Document, 1829 April 26

5522. Document, 1829 April 26

  • Name: Jay, Maria (Author) Jay, Anna (Addressee)
  • Date: 1829 April 26
  • Summary:
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1829 December 30

5523. Document, 1829 December 30

  • Name: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 (Author) Monod, Frederic, 1794-1863 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1829 December 30
  • Summary: Has learned with satisfaction of Monod's trip to St. Quentin and the conciliation between his brother and the assembly of that church. Hopes his brother and the assembly of that church. Hopes his brother will profit by the expe...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1829 January 11

5524. Document, 1829 January 11

Document, 1829 January n.d.

5525. Document, 1829 January n.d.

Document, 1829 June 01

5526. Document, 1829 June 01

Document, 1829 June 13

5527. Document, 1829 June 13

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1829 June 13
  • Summary: Letter from Jonathan Ward, surrogate, about John JayÆs will. William Jay and Peter Augustus Jay both executors of the estate.
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1829 June 13

5528. Document, 1829 June 13

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1829 June 13
  • Summary: Proof of John Jay's will; administration of all goods, chattels, and credits granted to Peter A. and William Jay. Signed by Jonathan Ward, surrogate.
  • Number of Images: 5
Document, 1829 March 02

5529. Document, 1829 March 02

Document, 1829 March 03

5530. Document, 1829 March 03

Document, 1829 March 18

5531. Document, 1829 March 18

Document, 1829 n.d.

5532. Document, 1829 n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1829 n.d.
  • Summary: Jay's manuscript notes on popular superstitions on the influence of the moon.
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1829 n.d.

5533. Document, 1829 n.d.

  • Name: Jay, Ann (Author) Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1829 n.d.
  • Summary: Has learned that her brother plans to make an "abridged edition of the memoirs of our dear father." Furnishes him with copy of diary which she kept during John Jay's serious illness in 1827. Illness resulted from bruised hand w...
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1829 n.d.

5534. Document, 1829 n.d.

Document, 1829 October 10

5535. Document, 1829 October 10

Document, 1829 October 18

5536. Document, 1829 October 18

Document, 1829 September 03

5537. Document, 1829 September 03

Document, 1829 September 22

5538. Document, 1829 September 22

Document, 1830 April 03

5539. Document, 1830 April 03

  • Name: Jay, Augusta McVickar (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
  • Date: 1830 April 03
  • Summary: Personal and family news. Religious admonition. Brief P.S. from William Jay.
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, 1830 April 08

5540. Document, 1830 April 08

  • Name: Stephen, James, 1758-1832 (Author) Winslow, Edward (Addressee)
  • Date: 1830 April 08
  • Summary: Encloses a letter which a messenger was unable to deliver to him at the House of Lords. Has decided to risk blame for acting without consulting his "official brethren;" has therefore reverted to his first plan and asks that the...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1830 August 07

5541. Document, 1830 August 07

Document, 1830 August 11

5542. Document, 1830 August 11

Document, 1830 December 07

5543. Document, 1830 December 07

Document, 1830 December 13

5544. Document, 1830 December 13

Document, 1830 December 18

5545. Document, 1830 December 18

Document, 1830 January 12

5546. Document, 1830 January 12

  • Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1830 January 12
  • Summary: Peter Augustus writes in response to Sparks' request for access to John Jay's papers. The request was refused until Peter and William could go through and arrange the papers in accordance with John Jay's will and request. John ...
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1830 July 15

5547. Document, 1830 July 15

  • Name: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1830 July 15
  • Summary: Begins to think of returning to America with his family, though the youngest children are just beginning to reap advantages from their travels. Preferred Italy and finds Germany "tame." The commonest items in New York are luxur...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1830 March 31

5548. Document, 1830 March 31

  • Name: Jay, Augusta McVickar (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
  • Date: 1830 March 31
  • Summary: Personal and family news. Religious admonitions, with the advice to remember that New York City may bewilder and "turn" her head, but that the things of men are only temporal, and not eternal.
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, 1830 November 26

5549. Document, 1830 November 26

  • Name: Jay, Augusta McVickar (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
  • Date: 1830 November 26
  • Summary: Enclosure: William Jay to Maria Jay Personal and family news. Comments on celebration of British evacuation of New York, made especially joyous this year "on account of the late revolution in France."
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1831 March 07

5550. Document, 1831 March 07

Document, 1832 January 02

5551. Document, 1832 January 02

  • Name: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1832 January 02
  • Summary: Offers to buy wine for him as duties will be reduced under the new treaty. Will send a Rembrandt copy made by Mr. Nurse; has bought for $8 a portrait of a woman of the time of Louis XIV, artist undetermined. The political atmos...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1832 June 02

5552. Document, 1832 June 02

  • Name: Jay, Anna (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
  • Date: 1832 June 02
  • Summary: Family news.
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, 1832 June 05

5553. Document, 1832 June 05

  • Name: Jay, Augusta McVickar (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
  • Date: 1832 June 05
  • Summary: Enclosed: Anna Jay to Maria Jay Personal and family news. Mentions activities of Bible and Missionary Societies.
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1832 June 09

5554. Document, 1832 June 09

Document, 1832 June 21

5555. Document, 1832 June 21

Document, 1832 May 11

5556. Document, 1832 May 11

Document, 1832 October 20

5557. Document, 1832 October 20

  • Name: Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 (Author) Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1832 October 20
  • Summary: Encloses copies of his eulogy on James Monroe and an address delivered by him to the town inhabitants on the 4th of July last. Has heard of William's intention to publish a biography on John Jay; regrets that distance has preve...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1833 August 31

5558. Document, 1833 August 31

  • Name: Broglie, Duc de (Author) Thomasson, Mr. (Addressee)
  • Date: 1833 August 31
  • Summary: Informs him of a royal ordinance which raises his post to consul at second class, and his position to consul second class.
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1834 August 16

5559. Document, 1834 August 16

Document, 1835 August 07

5560. Document, 1835 August 07

Document, 1835 October 20

5561. Document, 1835 October 20

  • Name: Robertson, S., Mrs. (Author) Jay, Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson (Addressee)
  • Date: 1835 October 20
  • Summary: A letter from Paris, giving a description of the opera world, influx from Italy due to cholera there, etc. She mentions Lord and Lady Sinclair, and inquires if Mary knows a family by name of Thorn (?).
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, 1836 August 22

5562. Document, 1836 August 22

  • Name: Eastburn, Manton, 1801-1872 (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
  • Date: 1836 August 22
  • Summary: Describes trip from Niagara, concentrating on religious services at Saugerties. Traveled to Mount Carbon, Pennsylvania, where he preached. Religious self-examinations, and personal news.
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1838 December 24

5563. Document, 1838 December 24

Document, 1838 July 04

5564. Document, 1838 July 04

Document, 1838 March 11

5565. Document, 1838 March 11

  • Name: Beecher, Henry Ward (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1838 March 11
  • Summary: Relates a parenthetical case and requests legal counsel. Received a dinner invitation some months ago, but the note came while he was out of town and the matter slipped his mind so that he never acknowledged the invitation. Wan...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1839 January 07

5566. Document, 1839 January 07

Document, 1839 September 11

5567. Document, 1839 September 11

  • Name: Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume (Author) Masson, Mme. (Addressee)
  • Date: 1839 September 11
  • Summary: Regrets that at the present time he does not have sufficient funds at his disposal to increase the pension left for her sons in school.
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1842 November 15

5568. Document, 1842 November 15

  • Name: Morpeth, George Howard, Lord, 6th Earl of Carlisle (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1842 November 15
  • Summary: Was highly gratified to receive a copy of his publication. The course he is pursuing is calculated to reflect honor even on the name of Jay. Experienced concern and regret on the death of Dr. Channing. Accounts from the West In...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1843 April 15

5569. Document, 1843 April 15

Document, 1843 February 27

5570. Document, 1843 February 27

  • Name: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 (Author) Jay, John C. (John Clarkson), 1808-1891 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1843 February 27
  • Summary: Jay's father was too good a friend for him to omit a communication to his children on the occasion of his death. Never knew a man whose principles and conduct more fully commanded his respect. Few men can point to such a father...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1843 October 31

5571. Document, 1843 October 31

Document, 1843 October 31

5572. Document, 1843 October 31

Document, 1844 February 25

5573. Document, 1844 February 25

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Zammit, Antonio (Author)
  • Date: 1844 February 25
  • Summary: Zammit is engaged to serve as courier and travelling servant for William Jay and his family. Should he be discharged at Paris or any other place his return to Malta is to be paid for, unless he is engaged by another party as a ...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1845 October 02

5574. Document, 1845 October 02

Document, 1851 June 14

5575. Document, 1851 June 14

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Jay, Elizabeth Clarkson (Addressee)
  • Date: 1851 June 14
  • Summary: Refers to Elizabeth's standard of vaccine excellency in connection with Cows. Says Mr. G. Morris might be able to supply Elizabeth with a cow which would meet her requirements. Makes reference to their work on behalf of Negroes...
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, 1855 August 29

5576. Document, 1855 August 29

Document, 1856 June 07

5577. Document, 1856 June 07

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Jay, John, 1817-1894 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1856 June 07
  • Summary: It is uncertain when the family will leave Liverpool, as Mrs. Jay (Augusta) has declined in health. Thanks him for the "Tribune." It contains much that is disgraceful and ominous to our country. Feels abashed when men in Englan...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1856 June 19

5578. Document, 1856 June 19

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Jay, John, 1817-1894 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1856 June 19
  • Summary: The family is lodging about three miles from Liverpool. Have received many kind attentions from new friends. John's friend, "R. Gardiner, M.P.," has died.
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1856 June 26

5579. Document, 1856 June 26

  • Name: Jay, William, 1789-1858 (Author) Jay, John, 1817-1894 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1856 June 26
  • Summary: Mrs. Jay's health varies, and it is uncertain when they will sail for America. Their friends in England increase in number. In yesterday's London Star was an" admirable leader" about Sumner; the paper is a liberal one and frien...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1856 May 29

5580. Document, 1856 May 29

Document, 1857 July 14

5581. Document, 1857 July 14

Document, 1858 September 01

5582. Document, 1858 September 01

Document, 1882 June 18

5583. Document, 1882 June 18

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1882 June 18
  • Summary: A manuscript in the Bibliotheque National, Paris, entitled "Histoire Genealogique de l'Ancienne Maison de le Jay" contains a description of the La Rochelle Jays' coat of arms. Cites the historian, Bolton, as referring to a work...
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, 1882 June n.d.

5584. Document, 1882 June n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1882 June n.d.
  • Summary: A manuscript in the Bibliotheque National, Paris, entitled "Histoire Genealogique de l'Ancienne Maison de le Jay" contains a description of the La Rochelle Jays' coat of arms. Cites the historian, Bolton, as referring to a work...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, ante 1765 and 178...

5585. Document, ante 1765 and 1780 January 1 - 1781 March 14

Document, ante 1789 July

5586. Document, ante 1789 July

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: ante 1789 July
  • Summary: Thanks her for her kindness during Sarah Jay's illness. Asks that she request Jay to write a letter, which will be more useful than the ministrations of ten physicians. If he does come to visit he should bring Maria, and all he...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, n.d.

5587. Document, n.d.

Document, n.d. and 1780 Mar...

5588. Document, n.d. and 1780 March 2, February 19, February 29

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: n.d. and 1780 March 2, February 19, February 29
  • Summary: Memoranda of codes used by John Jay. 3 Codes used with Silas Deane; and reference to suggested change in code included in John Jay to Deane, 2 October 1780. Code used with Robert R. Livingston Code used with Frederick Jay as ex...
  • Number of Images: 17
Document, post 1773 January 7

5589. Document, post 1773 January 7

  • Name: Alexander, James (Author) Semple, William (Addressee)
  • Date: post 1773 January 7
  • Summary: Protest of Alexander's bill on Semple for 86 pounds 18 shillings Pennsylvania currency, 11 December 1772. The bill, endorsed by Walter and Thomas Buchanan & Co. in favor of Mercer & Schenck, was exhibited for proest on 7 ...
  • Number of Images: 3
Document, post 1800 January 28

5590. Document, post 1800 January 28