The papers of John Jay

81. [Document, 1799 April 10]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 10, 1799
Summary: Division of lands near Chenango River, organization of a legion of light troops - Colonel Morton has recommended him to be adjutant. Family news.
Number of Images: 3

82. [Document, 1799 April 10]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 10, 1799
Summary: Partition of Chenango lands completed. He would like to be adjutant and lieutenant of legion of light troops being raised in New York City. Exertions in Bedford township will not be very considerable as far as the election is concerned. Division of la...
Number of Images: 2

83. [Document, 1799 April 25]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 25, 1799
Summary: News concerning progress in building at Rye and Bedford. Frederick Jay has made an agreement to rent a house at New York City, and was insulted when He (Peter Augustus) expressed some doubts as to the wisdom of the step. Family news.
Number of Images: 3

84. [Document, 1799 August 05]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
Date: August 05, 1799
Number of Images: 4

85. [Document, 1799 August 09]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: August 09, 1799
Summary: Believes the (yellow) fever in New York city does not exist, although avoids areas of town that might be dangerous. Advised his mother (Sarah Livingston Jay) to not return to Albany; the heat is terrible. Mr. and Mrs. Munro went to Mamaroneck where th...
Number of Images: 2

86. [Document, 1799 August 20]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: August 20, 1799
Summary: Family news. Yellow fever has taken only a few lives in the city.
Number of Images: 1

87. [Document, 1799 August 28]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: August 28, 1799
Summary: Yellow fever has abated in New York, especially with the cool weather. Financial matters. Mrs. Eustace wrote Jay a few weeks ago; did he ever receive it?
Number of Images: 1

88. [Document, 1799 December 10]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, Peter (Addressee)
Date: December 10, 1799
Summary: Frederick Jay is considered to be seriously ill by his doctors.
Number of Images: 3

89. [Document, 1799 December 10]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 10, 1799
Number of Images: 2

90. [Document, 1799 December 13]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 13, 1799
Summary: Frederick Jay very ill, frequently delirious. The doctors think his recovery to be unlikely.
Number of Images: 1

91. [Document, 1799 December 15]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 15, 1799
Summary: Death of Frederick Jay, funeral arrangements, details on his Will.
Number of Images: 2

92. [Document, 1799 December 25]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 25, 1799
Summary: A detailed description of letters sent to and received from John Jay. He does not think he has been remiss in writing to his father but will try to be more punctual in the future. Suspects Major Lyons is about to leave his farm at Bedford. He will go ...
Number of Images: 4

93. [Document, 1799 December 25]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 25, 1799
Number of Images: 4

94. [Document, 1799 February 14]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, Ann (Addressee)
Date: February 14, 1799
Summary: Autograph Draft letter signed. Recounts anecdote of Alexander Hamilton's elaborate practical joke on his family. With aid of his nephew, Philip Church, Hamilton convinced relatives that he had communicated via spirit messages with the Baron de Viomiue...
Number of Images: 5

95. [Document, 1799 February 17]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Addressee)
Date: February 17, 1799
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 of the British treaty. Si...
Number of Images: 4

96. [Document, 1799 February 21]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: February 21, 1799
Summary: Information concerning business transactions he has handled for his father. Has passed his Mayor's Court examination, and will be admitted next Tuesday.
Number of Images: 2

97. [Document, 1799 January 05]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Rutherfurd, John, 1760-1840 (Addressee)
Date: January 05, 1799
Summary: He has visited the tract near the Chenango River which Rutherfurd owns as a tenant in common with John Jay. Reports the results of a careful survey, the state of the timber, and the presence of poor settlers, who are not inclined to pay high rent. Rec...
Number of Images: 4

98. [Document, 1799 January 22]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 22, 1799
Summary: Concerns arrangements made by Hallet for sale of coach. Sent a letter of introduction with Mr. Gillivray, who lived for many years among the Indians and was desirous of speaking with John Jay on Indian affairs.
Number of Images: 2

99. [Document, 1799 July 12]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 12, 1799
Number of Images: 3

100. [Document, 1799 July 19]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: July 19, 1799
Summary: Riots have broken out concerning a house in which a man was said to have been murdered; quelled by calling out the militia. Family news. Hopes for recovery of her health.
Number of Images: 3

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