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[Document, 1777 November 01]

1. [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]

2. [Document, 1777 November 21]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 21, 1777
  • Summary: Fort Mifflin surrendered and all our troops escaped after setting fire to the barracks. General Washington reinforced with 2,500 troops. Philadelphia has lent General Howe 20,000 pounds and he has given the old money of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ne...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 November 21]

3. [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.]

4. [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, 1779 December 26]

5. [Document, 1779 December 26]

[Document, 1780 April 26]

6. [Document, 1780 April 26]

[Document, 1780 February 13]

7. [Document, 1780 February 13]

[Document, 1780 July 10]

8. [Document, 1780 July 10]

[Document, 1781 June 30]

9. [Document, 1781 June 30]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: June 30, 1781
  • Summary: Autograph Letter Signed. Birth of Judith Livingston Watkins's son Sir James reports on Jay family at Poughkeepsie where they fled after British raid. John Jay's commission as peace commissioner. Mrs. Benezet's bereavement. No word from Saratoga. Broth...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1781 November 18]

10. [Document, 1781 November 18]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 18, 1781
  • Summary: Personal letter. What do they think of Deane's letters. Defeat of Cornwallis gave her the pleasurable thought that they would be home soon. The lack of terms for Loyalists in Cornwallis' capitulation make the Tories uneasy, and they are leaving for Eu...
  • Number of Images: 5
[Document, 1783 November 09]

11. [Document, 1783 November 09]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 09, 1783
  • Summary: Has not been good correspondent of late; had Mr. Shippen come to visit would have had letter from her when he arrived in France. Learned Colonel Ogden in France. Had given packet to Count Rochambeau , who was to sail with Mr. Jefferson and General Cha...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1798 February 26]

12. [Document, 1798 February 26]

[Document, 1800 April 18]

13. [Document, 1800 April 18]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: April 18, 1800
  • Summary: Urges Sarah to leave Albany as soon as possible, as she should be at Oak Hill before the warm weather comes if she hopes to recover her health.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1800 n.d.]

14. [Document, 1800 n.d.]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: 1800 n.d.
  • Summary: She wishes to help support Mrs. Linn, so that she will not be reduced to operating a boarding house to support herself. Will Sarah and the Governor be willing to go along with her scheme?
  • Number of Images: 3