The papers of John Jay

101. [Document, 1798 August 17]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: August 17, 1798
Summary: Advises that Peter attend the Westchester court and postpone his visit to the family. Instructions for payment of various accounts.
Number of Images: 2

102. [Document, 1798 August 19]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: August 19, 1798
Number of Images: 2

103. [Document, 1798 December 05]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 05, 1798
Summary: John Lyons has taken possession of that share of the brick kiln at Bedford which was formerly owned by the brickmaker, and by agreement is to sell bricks only to John Jay. The Major is building a stone wall but the well is not yet begun. Peter visited...
Number of Images: 3

104. [Document, 1798 December 09]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
Date: December 09, 1798
Number of Images: 4

105. [Document, 1798 December 13]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: December 13, 1798
Summary: Inquires in detail about financial matters being handled by Peter, and again mentions value of habit of punctuality. Includes various family news and comment.
Number of Images: 2

106. [Document, 1798 December 29]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 29, 1798
Summary: Attended the court at Bedford and dined the next day with Judge Miller, who intends to write John Jay about the military appointment in the county. He computes the number of militia officers disaffected to the government at more than one half, while J...
Number of Images: 4

107. [Document, 1798 February 19]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Munro, Peter Jay, 1767-1833 (Addressee)
Date: February 19, 1798
Number of Images: 8

108. [Document, 1798 January 13]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 13, 1798
Summary: John Jay's coach has been sold for 250 pounds, a price Peter thinks too low. A book of the Laws of Connecticut is being forwarded. William Whitehead, the late deputy secretary of the Democratic Society, is promoted to Adjutant of the Regiment.
Number of Images: 2

109. [Document, 1798 July 08]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Addressee)
Date: July 08, 1798
Number of Images: 4

110. [Document, 1798 July 24]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author)
Date: July 24, 1798
Summary: Theme for Lyceum-Enthuseasm.
Number of Images: 12

111. [Document, 1798 June 07]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 07, 1798
Summary: Before he left New York City, it had been decided that only young men trained to improve military discipline should wear the cockade. Democrats have carried all of the assembly men but one in Westchester. Reports on state of the farm at Bedford, and t...
Number of Images: 4

112. [Document, 1798 June 07]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 07, 1798
Summary: Before he left New York City, it had been decided that only young men trained to improve military discipline should wear the cockade. Democrats have carried all of the assembly men but one in Westchester. Reports on state of the farm at Bedford, and t...
Number of Images: 2

113. [Document, 1798 June 7]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: June 7, 1798
Summary: Typed transcription of letter offered for sale at B. Altman's, October 5, 1981.
Number of Images: 1

114. [Document, 1798 March 10]

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: March 10, 1798
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." He also visited Washin...
Number of Images: 4

115. [Document, 1798 March 17]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: March 17, 1798
Summary: By order of the Corporation, the street running past John Jay's lots will be lowered about twenty feet. Part of the earth will be used to raise Barclay Street; the residue goes to the contractor. Family news.
Number of Images: 4

116. [Document, 1798 March 17]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, Peter (Addressee)
Date: March 17, 1798
Number of Images: 4

117. [Document, 1798 March 25]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: March 25, 1798
Number of Images: 4

118. Document, 1798 March 27

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1798 March 27
Summary: Waited to learn John Jay's directions concerning Ruckel. He and Munro have decided to leave fifty feet to the south of the bridge empty to avoid interference with canal. Business matters. Reports rumor that John Jay intends to ...
Number of Images: 0

119. [Document, 1798 March 28]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Elias, Augustus (Addressee) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Addressee)
Date: March 28, 1798
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 and universal domination."...
Number of Images: 4

120. [Document, 1798 May 06]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: May 06, 1798
Summary: Government House has been emptied and Peter is now living at Mrs. West's. Pope's House remains vacant. At a recent meeting of the Society for free Debate there was so much noise and confusion that though many respectable people were present, no one wa...
Number of Images: 4

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