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[Document, 1776 March 18]

21. [Document, 1776 March 18]

  • Name: Jay, Peter (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: March 18, 1776
  • Summary: Illness. Looking forward to her visit in May. Respects to her parents and love to grandson Peter. Desires to have some clothes made for Peter, as a present.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1776 March 31]

22. [Document, 1776 March 31]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: March 31, 1776
  • Summary: Letters of 24 March received. How is son Peter? Hopes she exercises by riding, playing battledore and shuttlecock. Her health is vital to him.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1776 March n.d.]

23. [Document, 1776 March n.d.]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: 1776 March n.d.
  • Summary: Hopes the frequency of his letters in 3 weeks has afforded more pleasure than trouble. This goes by Blanchard; for whom please procure oats and hay against Jay's return in early May. Should Peter be inoculated?
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1776 October 19]

24. [Document, 1776 October 19]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: October 19, 1776
  • Summary: Goes to Rye tomorrow to move the family. Fady (Frederick Jay) has returned. Sarah Livingston Jay should stay at Robert R. Livingston's house while he goes up to Albany. John Jay will visit her there as soon as possible. Asks her to be careful of her h...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1777 August 18]

25. [Document, 1777 August 18]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 18, 1777
  • Summary: Confesses her laxness in writing to him. Uneasy about the situation in New York. Jay left for convention yesterday. Son Peter grows more lovely everyday.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 June 17]

26. [Document, 1777 June 17]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 17, 1777
  • Summary: Recreation at Troy. They are reading Shakespeare and Mme de Maintenon. The reading circle would benefit by Jay's "sage" observations. Papa Livingston is returned from Haddonfield. Council of Safety meetings continue.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 June 25]

27. [Document, 1777 June 25]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 25, 1777
  • Summary: She has recently been at Elizabeth Town, where she was saddened by the ravages of the enemy. She has found a dozen and a half beautiful shirts. Is glad the trunk arrived but fears the gloves she sent him are too small. If so she shall knit a new pair....
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1777 June 25]

28. [Document, 1777 June 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: June 25, 1777
  • Summary: Received hers of June 17 by Mr. Morris. Had written her "lately" and sent it to Colonel Hamilton. Assumes his letters have not arrived. Is concerned for her health. Comments on her reading Mme. de Maintenon.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1777 June 27]

29. [Document, 1777 June 27]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 27, 1777
  • Summary: His of the 27th afforded much pleasure; she is surprised that her trip to Elizabethtown was dangerous. His genteel reprimand charms her. As her health affects his happiness she has sufficient motive to preserve it.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 March 17]

30. [Document, 1777 March 17]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 17, 1777
  • Summary: The pleasure of being near "my best and dearest friend" overcomes pain of rheumatism in wrist and enables her to write. Jay's father and mother continue as Jay left them; their son Peter is well and has at last conquered his cold.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 March 21]

31. [Document, 1777 March 21]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 21, 1777
  • Summary: Dyckman's return to Esopus offers a safe conveyance. At present SLJ has a "great cold in my head" but no rheumatism symptoms. Happy to receive Jay's letter informing her of his safe destination. She regrets the claim of public affairs on him. Frederic...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1777 March 23]

32. [Document, 1777 March 23]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 23, 1777
  • Summary: She assures Jay she is recovered from her illness. Her thanks for his last letters; is pleased to have anticipated his wishes about the horse. Anecdote about Claas, their servant. Peter is well and in fine spirits. The transports in the north river, b...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 March 25]

33. [Document, 1777 March 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: March 25, 1777
  • Summary: Thanks for Sarah Livingston Jay's of 17th and 21st. Hopes recent enemy landing at Peekskill has not upset her too much. He is concerned for the state of mind of his parents. Believes Sarah Livingston Jay is safe at Fishkill but as soon as he suspects ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 May 03]

34. [Document, 1777 May 03]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 03, 1777
  • Summary: Gratitude for Jay's letter. Other letters mentioned in his, not received. Had hoped his silence meant he was on his way back home. Congress impatient for his return. Sister Caty and others away, Sarah is "sole mistress" with time to meditate. A word f...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 November 01]

35. [Document, 1777 November 01]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Livingston, Susan (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 01, 1777
  • Summary: Post irregular; some shipments of personal effects presumed lost. Action of troops in the area. Neither the Whigs nor Tories like the articles of capitulation published in the London papers. Peter to be inoculated against small pox. Brockholst not hea...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1777 November 21]

36. [Document, 1777 November 21]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 21, 1777
  • Summary: Peter's recovery from smallpox. He is well but shy of speaking. Troop evacuation of Ft. Mifflin. General Washington reinforced by 2,500 men. News of troop movements. The Elizabethtown house occupied for six weeks. Petitions for permits to change resid...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1777 November n.d.]

37. [Document, 1777 November n.d.]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: 1777 November n.d.
  • Summary: Peter has had a light case of small pox. P. Troop has taken the oath to the state and has been released from his miserable imprisonment. Betsey Livingston and Captain Dandridge are to be married soon. Trade with enemy continues, with less secrecy than...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1777 September 03]

38. [Document, 1777 September 03]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 03, 1777
  • Summary: Three weeks have elapsed without a letter from Jay. She fears his have miscarried. Asks for news of family in Fishkill. Son Peter's fractious temper would benefit from Jay's presence and good influence.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1778 August 08]

39. [Document, 1778 August 08]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 08, 1778
  • Summary: Is glad John Jay has a recess from Congress, but wishes he had been able to stay longer to see his brother. Wishes his brother and wife were more fortunate and were back in Fishkill. Remember her to his father, Nancy and Peter. Their little Peter is i...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1778 December 28]

40. [Document, 1778 December 28]

  • Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 28, 1778
  • Summary: [She is not a little annoyed at his failure to write!] While she is happy he has been elected President of Congress, she hopes that it will not last more than three months when his term as delegate will expire. While she does not wish to influence his...
  • Number of Images: 1