The papers of John Jay

Name: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee) Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1781
Summary: Letterbook copy. Instructions to the peace commissioners. They are authorized to accept the mediation of Germany and Russia. Terms: United States must have full and complete independence and keep in force the treaties with France. Follow Adams' instru...
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Name: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee) Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1781
Summary: Copy of document 7368. Commission to Jay, Franklin, Adams, Laurens, and Jefferson to represent the United States as commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace. Copy of note at close by which Jay certifies that this is a true copy of the commission p...
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Name: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee) Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1781
Summary: Copy. Instructions to the peace commissioners. They are authorized to accept the mediation of Germany and Russia. Terms: U.S. must have full and complete independence and keep in force the treaties with France. Follow Adams' instructions of 14 August ...
Number of Images: 2

Name: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee) Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1781
Summary: Copy of document 7368. Commission to Jay, Franklin, Adams, Laurens, and Jefferson to represent the United States as commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace. Copy of note at close by which Jay certifies that this is a true copy of the commission p...
Number of Images: 5

Name: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee) Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1781
Summary: Copy, in the hand of Charles Thomson, of document 7368. Commission to Jay, Franklin, Adams, Laurens, and Jefferson to represent the United States as commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace.
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Name: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee) Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1781
Summary: Letterbook copy. Instructions to the peace commissioners. They are authorized to accept the mediation of Germany and Russia. Terms: United States must have full and complete independence and keep in force the treaties with France. Follow Adams' instru...
Number of Images: 1

Name: Huntington, Samuel, 1731-1796 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee) Laurens, Henry, 1724-1792 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1781
Summary: Description from Kenneth Rendell catalogue of Jay's decoding of the instructions to the peace commissioners. They are authorized to accept the mediation of Germany and Russia. Terms: United States must have full and complete independence and keep in f...
Number of Images: 2

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
Date: January 14, 1785
Summary: Congress now in session and considering all foreign letters. Judges appointed to settle the dispute between Massachusetts and New York. Rumor that the Cherokees will attack the settlements in Kentucky and that Spain encourages them.
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
Date: March 11, 1785
Summary: On 7 May 1784 Congress resolved to enter 10 years treaties with the Barbary states. The American commissioners in Paris given power to make these treaties. Can use up to $80,000 for this purpose. May appoint persons to go to the courts of these powers...
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
Date: March 11, 1785
Summary: On 7 May 1784 Congress resolved to enter 10 years treaties with the barbary states. The American commissioners in Paris given power to make these treaties. Can use up to $80,000 for this purpose. May appoint persons to go to the courts of these powers...
Number of Images: 27

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Adams, John, 1735-1826 (Addressee) Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Addressee) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Addressee)
Date: March 11, 1785
Summary: Informing them of resolutions of Congress concerning their powers as ministers making treaties and trade agreements with foreign nations, especially concerning Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Can use money borrowed in Holland or elsewhere in Euro...
Number of Images: 10

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