The papers of John Jay

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Name Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 Name Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827

Document, 1801 March 17

1. Document, 1801 March 17

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: 1801 March 17
Summary: General personal comment, and requests Peter's aid in moving his sister from New York to Washington.
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1800 October 15

2. Document, 1800 October 15

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: 1800 October 15
Summary: Describes development of Washington with philosophical comment. Mentions poor state of commerce, which obtains "in every town in the United States" but mentions optimism about development.
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1800 November 30

3. Document, 1800 November 30

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Addressee)
Date: 1800 November 30
Summary:
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1799 February 17

4. Document, 1799 February 17

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Addressee)
Date: 1799 February 17
Summary: While he is displeased with the abstract form of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, he is even more distressed at their spirit. Antipathy to aliens has, in Kentucky, suddenly been turned to sympathy since the ratification o...
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1799 January 07 -...

5. Document, 1799 January 07 - 1801 October 12

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: 1799 January 07 - 1801 October 12
Summary:
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1798 March 28

6. Document, 1798 March 28

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Elias, Augustus (Addressee) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Addressee)
Date: 1798 March 28
Summary: Jefferson is suspected of designs which threaten the happiness and independence of the United States by subjecting it to the will of a foreign nation which "sacrifices everything to its insatiable appetite for aggrandizement an...
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1798 March 10

7. Document, 1798 March 10

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: 1798 March 10
Summary: Has seen Jefferson at Philadelphia, who has fallen in the esteem of many in northern and eastern states resulting in a want of harmony in public councils. Feels that parties are neither "necessary or salutary in our government....
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1798 July 08

8. Document, 1798 July 08

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Addressee)
Date: 1798 July 08
Summary:
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1796 March 20

9. Document, 1796 March 20

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), -1827 (Addressee)
Date: 1796 March 20
Summary: Partisan spirit is prevalent and the exhibition of it in the halls of Congress is most unseemly. Shouts of Parisians fill all of Europe with discord and war; now they are echoed in the Allegheny mountains.
Number of Images: 3