The papers of John Jay

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Name Jay, Sarah Livingston Name Symmes, Susan Livingston

Document, 1780 August 28

1. Document, 1780 August 28

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1780 August 28
Summary: Comments on the closeness of death before the safe arrival at Martinique. The passage to Cadiz was pleasant, but Mrs. Jay was indisposed due to rough weather and another reason "I leave you to conjecture." From Cadiz the Jay pa...
Number of Images: 14

Document, 1780 December 24

2. Document, 1780 December 24

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1780 December 24
Summary: She is indignant that her letters to Mrs. Jay are intercepted-even though they go with the Congressional dispatches. They miss the Jays very much, and sympathize with them on the loss of their infant daughter. Mrs. Jay should t...
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1783 April 16

3. Document, 1783 April 16

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1783 April 16
Summary: Written many letters, not received any reply. Longing for change and wants to learn new arrangements that have or will take place if treaty is concluded. Do not mean political changes. Much rather be mistress of a dairy and far...
Number of Images: 2

Document, 1790 February 07

4. Document, 1790 February 07

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1790 February 07
Summary: Sorry to hear Susan is still in low spirits. Although they have all had to deal with much in the last few months, they must try to bear up under the burden. It is SusanÆs duty to console their declining father. When he dies it ...
Number of Images: 2

Document, 1790 n.d.

5. Document, 1790 n.d.

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1790 n.d.
Summary: Probably written during the summer of 1790. Family news. Jay ill, and convalescing at Rye.
Number of Images: 3

Document, 1792 November 12

6. Document, 1792 November 12

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1792 November 12
Summary: News of family and friends. Jay has recovered health sufficiently to travel to Rye to convalesce.
Number of Images: 2

Document, 1793 July 29

7. Document, 1793 July 29

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1793 July 29
Summary: Anecdotes of life in Baltimore during the period when the city offered refugees from the French West Indian Islands. Mr. Millot, whose family has been boarding with Catharine Ridley and Susan Livingston, will be moving to N.J. ...
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1794 April 11

8. Document, 1794 April 11

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1794 April 11
Summary: Has heard the country to which you are going is wonderful; must be happy that Susy goes with you. We expect to move to Bedford by next spring after Mr. Jay returns from the circuit. Wishes to stay there until Maria is 16 and th...
Number of Images: 2

Document, 1794 November 22

9. Document, 1794 November 22

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1794 November 22
Summary: Typed copy of document 12988. The Symmeses have been delayed at the crossing of the Juniata because of the many vehicles to be ferried over. The roads are very bad because they had been cut up by army vehicles during the rainy ...
Number of Images: 1

Document, 1794 November 22

10. Document, 1794 November 22

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1794 November 22
Summary: Autograph Letter signed. The Symmeses have been delayed at the crossing of the Juniata because of the many vehicles to be ferried over. The roads are very bad because they had been cut up by army vehicles during the rainy seaso...
Number of Images: 2

Document, 1794 November 24

11. Document, 1794 November 24

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1794 November 24
Summary: Autograph Letter signed. Susan Symmes and her husband have travelled a long way over dreadful roads, and the hundred miles still to come are still worse, she hears. The mountains are called "Nobs here, but to be sure the Nobs a...
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1794 November 24

12. Document, 1794 November 24

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1794 November 24
Summary: Typed copy of document 12989. Susan Symmes and her husband have travelled a long way over dreadful roads, and the hundred miles still to come are still worse, she hears. The mountains are called "Nobs here, but to be sure the N...
Number of Images: 1

Document, 1796 March 03

13. Document, 1796 March 03

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1796 March 03
Summary: Typed copy. The inhabitants of the land in the Ohio Territory around the Symmes' are busy making maple sugar. It is "very pretty looking sugar, tho I can't be reconciled to the taste; we give from 15d. to a quarr. of a doll. pr...
Number of Images: 2

Document, 1796 March 3

14. Document, 1796 March 3

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1796 March 3
Summary: Describes Ohio Territory and maple sugar camps that have sprung up there. In a postscript addressed to Maria Jay, describes the marriage of her stepdaughter to William Henry Harrison. Governor Symmes disapproved the match; Anth...
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1797 February 22

15. Document, 1797 February 22

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1797 February 22
Summary: Family news. They learned of the death of Essex Ridley shortly before they were to leave for the ball celebrating Washington's birthday. Peter A. Jay is heartsick and the entire family is depressed.
Number of Images: 4

Document, 1798 July 14

16. Document, 1798 July 14

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1798 July 14
Summary: Will accept Sarah's invitation if she cannot come to Oakhill. Has opened a school and hopes Ann will attend. Family news.
Number of Images: 1

Document, ante 1789 July

17. Document, ante 1789 July

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: ante 1789 July
Summary: Thanks her for her kindness during Sarah Jay's illness. Asks that she request Jay to write a letter, which will be more useful than the ministrations of ten physicians. If he does come to visit he should bring Maria, and all he...
Number of Images: 1