The papers of John Jay

1. Document, 1779 April 29

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1779 April 29
Summary: Congratulates John Jay on his elevation to the presidency. Asks that Dumas be given a commission as United States charge des affairs to the United Provinces of theNetherlands. Franklin has approved this, and has promised to wri...
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2. Document, 1779 April 29

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, James, Sir, 1732-1815 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1779 April 29
Summary: Includes five letters to James Jay, one letter and 62 dispatches to John Jay. InFrench.
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3. Document, 1785 October 22

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Addressee)
Date: 1785 October 22
Summary: An act of Congress expresses appreciation for Mr. DumasÆ efforts. Will send the public papers as soon as there is a direct means of getting them to Holland. Send frequent letters.
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4. Document, 1786 April 11

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 April 11
Summary: Paints a picture of the various scenes happening there. Description of the upheavals of society-acts of clemency and then acts of severity. Attempt of lese majeste failed and had salutary effect in flushing out the conspirators...
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5. Document, 1786 April 23

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 April 23
Summary: Last Wednesday the French ambassador received the enclosed declaration, which made a big splash. The king (of Prussia) will no longer take open steps to support the pretensions of the prince, having promised the French court to...
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6. Document, 1786 December 02

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 December 02
Summary: M. de Rayneval seems always in tune with the general principles of the adopted system. The power of the Captain General has been intermingled with the accessory powers of the present Captain General. Particular question of mili...
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7. Document, 1786 December 14

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 December 14
Summary: Had not replied because waiting for orders of Congress on matters in DumasÆ letters. Delay in Congress about foreign affairs because of annual election and absence of members -- stagnation will probably continue some time. Cong...
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8. Document, 1786 December 22

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 December 22
Summary: The alliance between the Netherlands and France continues to hold; it is in the true interest of the two parties. The best-informed claim that the republic will abolish the regulations in the provinces, that the command of The ...
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9. Document, 1786 February 24

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 February 24
Summary: D. sends document that completes preceding ones. Asks order of the Treasury to be able to cash his money. States General have received complaints that Rhode Island persists in Navigation Act to the detriment of Dutch citizens. ...
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10. Document, 1786 January 27

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 January 27
Summary: Very pleased with act of Congress concerning himself. Several errors in the document' his name Charles William Frederic, not born in Amsterdam but in Germany, has lived for over 30 years in The Hague. According to act of Congre...
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11. Document, 1786 January 31

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 January 31
Summary: Encloses three documents. 1. an expose written by the "minister of a great city," translated by him, sent to the French court and since to the king of Prussia. 2. considerations by the same minister who sits on the sovereign co...
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12. Document, 1786 March 23

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 March 23
Summary: Stadholder still in Gelderland, guided by bad advisors. Two big issues of the conflict for some time in Holland -- the command of not only the troops as captain general, but for all the cities and provinces as well, in the guis...
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13. Document, 1786 May 06

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 May 06
Summary: Describes the person who created the idea of the German League. In another secret mission to Versailles, he smoothed over difficulties over peace with the Empire and helped conclude alliance between the United Provinces and Fra...
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14. Document, 1786 November 04

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 November 04
Summary: Encloses the annotation of his translation that the ambassador copied to send to his court. Those in Amsterdam wrote a petition in the same spirit as HaarlemÆs. It has been over a year since Congress authorized his payment; arr...
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15. Document, 1786 November 17

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 November 17
Summary: The marked sections in the Gazettes enclosed explain internal affairs in the Netherlands. Mentions Cte de Goits, Mr. V. Bessel, Pensionary of Amsterdam, Kasteelen and others of Haarlem. The conference, as predicted, was insigni...
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16. Document, 1786 November 29

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 November 29
Summary: Information pertaining to the enclosed Gazettes. About a letter translated, which the French ambassador dispatched by express messengers to Mr. Lestevenon. This document should stay with the extracts and Gazettes attached, so t...
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17. Document, 1786 November 29

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 November 29
Summary: M. de Rayneval arrived the 18th. The king desires the re-establishment of tranquility. The king would hold to the declaration made and he did not want to interfere with their domestic affairs, nor let others. They have made him...
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18. Document, 1786 October 03

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 October 03
Summary: Conflict between civil liberty and despotism that had previously been mentioned now in final stages. Terribly afflicted by domestic woes that he forces himself to hide from all because of his love of the United States. Repeats ...
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19. Document, 1786 October 15

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 October 15
Summary: Rediscovery of republican liberty at Utrecht, lost since 1674 and regained by magistrates and bourgeois in big civic ceremony. News of Haarlem, Frisia, Overijssel, Groningen, Zeeland and Holland. Prussian legation remains there...
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20. Document, 1786 October 23

Name: Dumas, Charles Guillaume Frédéric, approximately 1725-1780 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1786 October 23
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1. Document, 1779 April 29

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6. Document, 1786 December 02

7. Document, 1786 December 14

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11. Document, 1786 January 31

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18. Document, 1786 October 03

19. Document, 1786 October 15

20. Document, 1786 October 23