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[Document, 1777 May 09]

1. [Document, 1777 May 09]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: May 09, 1777
Summary: Sends Jay a copy of the April 29th letter Gates to Congress, to enable Jay to make use of the information it contains as best he knows how. Urges Jay not to show the letter to anyone. See document 5608.
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[Document, 1779 January 15]

2. [Document, 1779 January 15]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 15, 1779
Summary: Congratulates Jay on attaining the Presidency of Congress and hopes the events of the year will give him opportunities to demonstrate his abilities and patriotism. Sends Jay a letter he has just sent to General Washington. Asks Jay for an answer to al...
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[Document, 1779 January 15]

3. [Document, 1779 January 15]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 15, 1779
Summary: Congratulates Jay on attaining the Presidency of Congress and hopes the events of the year will give him opportunities to demonstrate his abilities and patriotism. Sends Jay a letter he has just sent to General Washington. Asks Jay for an answer to al...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1779 January 29]

4. [Document, 1779 January 29]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 29, 1779
Summary: Excerpt of full letter (see document 10920, January 29, 1779). Read out in Congress. Received information from General Jacob Bayley and Colonel Timothy Bedel. Believes British provisions are getting depleted very quickly. Admiral Gambier sent prisoner...
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[Document, 1779 January 29]

5. [Document, 1779 January 29]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 29, 1779
Summary: Believes the British magazines of provisions are being exhausted very quickly. Admiral Gambier goes from New York to New London in three ships with 367 prisoners; Admiral Byron sent 144 prisoners to General Sullivan from Rhode Island; Admiral Hughes j...
Number of Images: 7

[Document, 1779 July 20]

6. [Document, 1779 July 20]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 20, 1779
Summary: Gates fitted a sloop for sea and put it under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Talbot. It has just returned from a successful cruise against the enemy. It is not at Providence where it is being refitted. Talbot and his crew deserve much honor for the...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1779 July 25]

7. [Document, 1779 July 25]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 25, 1779
Summary: Gates pleased at the generous treatment of Bancks by Congress. He will stay with Gates until a favorable moment for him to return to Europe. Encloses 14 papers to be laid before Congress.
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[Document, 1779 June 21]

8. [Document, 1779 June 21]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 21, 1779
Summary: Lists of items sent with letter. Only a fragment of one letter, from Washington to Gates of May [?] 1779 is filed with this copy.
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[Document, 1779 June 25]

9. [Document, 1779 June 25]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 25, 1779
Summary: Asks for a commission for a Captain Banks, a German who came to the U.S. to fight for our independence, was taken prisoner and sent to St. Augustine and finally New York, and is now a town officer under Gates and in straightened circumstances.
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[Document, 1779 June 26]

10. [Document, 1779 June 26]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 26, 1779
Summary: Sends intelligence and letter from Captain Banks whom Gates recommends as an officer to be assigned to the German battalion of Pulaski since he is a man of merit but only speaks the German language.
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[Document, 1779 March 15]

11. [Document, 1779 March 15]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: March 15, 1779
Summary: The city of Boston is very badly prepared for an enemy attack. The most opulent are without bread and the poor are desperate. With so few troops, Gates fears violence in taking over the few barrels of flour left. Gives some ideas on the invasion the C...
Number of Images: 6

[Document, 1779 March 16]

12. [Document, 1779 March 16]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: March 16, 1779
Summary: The city of Boston is very badly prepared for an enemy attack. The most opulent are without bread and the poor are desperate. With so few troops, Gates fears violence in taking over the few barrels of flour left. Gives some ideas on the invasion of Ca...
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1779 May 04]

13. [Document, 1779 May 04]

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: May 04, 1779
Summary: No money has arrived for the payment of the troops and Congress is already six months in arrears on these payments. There have already been three mutinies and a fourth may leave the Army without any men in this department. We need an extra $600,000 im...
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Document, 1779 September 07

14. Document, 1779 September 07

Name: Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1779 September 07
Summary: Has Jay's letter of August 24 for payment to Robert Troup. The money was advanced to Captain Travers who was employed by Gates on secret service. His charges are not secret but accounted for by travel and other unavoidable ...
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