The papers of John Jay

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Addressee)
Date: 1780 November 18
Summary: ALS. Requests copy of Massachusett's Constitution. Acompanied by Gerry draft AL repsonding and predicting American victory over England.
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Addressee)
Date: November 18, 1780
Summary: Commends Gerry on the constitution agreed upon by the State constitutional convention, and requests that a copy be sent to him in Spain. Has written about political affairs to the President of Congress, but fears that the letter may contain more than ...
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Addressee)
Date: January 09, 1782
Summary: Is pleased about Yorktown. Even though Jay has suffered from the continental currency, opulence is not necessary. He will "never cease to prefer a little with freedom, to opulence without it." God should be praised for the state of abundance in the na...
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Name: Duane, James, 1733-1797 (Author) Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Author) Holten, Samuel, 1738-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) King, Rufus, 1755-1827 (Author) Johnson, Samuel (Addressee)
Date: 1785 June 15
Summary: LS. Signed by James Duane and Walter Livingston with Jay as agents for New York, and Elbridge Gerry, Samuel Holton, and Rufus King as agents for Massachusetts. Discusses Johnson's appointment as a judge in a boundary dispute be...
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Name: Duane, James, 1733-1797 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee) Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Author) Holten, Samuel, 1738-1816 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) King, Rufus, 1755-1827 (Author)
Date: November 01, 1785
Summary: Ask that the parties be given right to set a future date for a hearing since the judges are procrastinating.
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Addressee)
Date: 1787 January 04
Summary: Acknowledges receipt of 25 December 1786. Whether the circumstances are as Gerry says, John Jay cannot determine. In John Jay's opinion Mr. Thompson has nothing to fear, because the defendants are powerless to create any influe...
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Name: Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 21, 1790
Summary: Request for ransom money for Americans enslaved in Algiers, referred to President who had it sent to Jay as Secretary of State. Concerns the situation of one Robertson, and was addressed to the House of Representatives through British consul at Algier...
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Name: Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 07, 1795
Summary: Congratulates Jay on election to Governor of New York; introduces a Mr. Sullivan, Attorney General of Massachusetts.
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