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[Document, 1797 February 09]

1. [Document, 1797 February 09]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Lawrence, Richard (Addressee)
Date: February 09, 1797
Summary: The refugees which Providence has delivered to New York State are to be the beneficiaries of the relief measures passed by New York. To include others would be to encourage migration to New York from those states which have not passed similar relief l...
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[Document, 1797 February 24]

2. [Document, 1797 February 24]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Lawrence, Richard (Addressee)
Date: February 24, 1797
Summary: Thanks him for contacting Peter Williams. If four French families he mentioned arrived from overseas at New York, there can be no reasonable objection to extending relief to them.
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[Document, 1797 January 23]

3. [Document, 1797 January 23]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Lawrence, Richard (Addressee)
Date: January 23, 1797
Summary: Encloses warrant to obtain funds for relief of the Santo Domingo refugees. Admonished Lawrence that in utilizing these funds only that refugees who were residents on date of enactment are covered. Should the French Republic have made provision for the...
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[Document, 1798 January 06]

4. [Document, 1798 January 06]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Lawrence, Richard (Addressee)
Date: January 06, 1798
Summary: Requests information on the condition and number of the St. Domingo refugees; also requests to see Lawrence's account of expenditures for them before here ports to the Legislature.
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