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[Document, 1777 August 18]

1. [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.
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[Document, 1781 February 21]

2. [Document, 1781 February 21]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
Date: February 21, 1781
Summary: Draft. Jay thinks that it was not Colonel William Livingston who was killed in a duel but Colonel William Alexander Livingston. Has received some letters form America. They have moved. Is pleased Brockholst met the Chevalier Roche, who helped Jay at C...
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[Document, 1786 January 03]

3. [Document, 1786 January 03]

Name: Vaughan, John (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
Date: January 03, 1786
Summary: Has heard that there has been a break in the friendship of Jay and Livingston. Hopes that B.L will make an overture to reconciliation. No harm can be done by it.
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[Document, 1786 January 25]

4. [Document, 1786 January 25]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
Date: January 25, 1786
Summary: The paper of Carmichael's which Livingston was asked to make a copy of and not to mention it was made public by Livingston who said it was nonsense not to. Jay decided to dismiss Livingston and did not send dispatches to America copies by Livingston a...
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[Document, 1786 July 12]

5. [Document, 1786 July 12]

Name: Vaughan, John (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
Date: July 12, 1786
Summary: Vaughan does not plan to send his letters to Jay or B. Livingston to either of them.
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[Document, 1786 June 27]

6. [Document, 1786 June 27]

Name: Vaughan, John (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
Date: June 27, 1786
Summary: Has copies of two letters written by Vaughan to Jay on the dispatches which Vaughan took to America for him. One of Feb. 26, 1782 in which he states that he will throw the letters overboard if in danger of capture. On 5 May 1782 V. wrote that the disp...
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[Document, 1786 March 18]

7. [Document, 1786 March 18]

Name: Vaughan, John (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
Date: March 18, 1786
Summary: Thinks he and Brockholst Livingston left Spain together in March 1782 on the ship Hope. Captured on way to America by an English frigate. At this time Vaughan destroyed the public dispatches trusted to him by Jay. Thinks Livingston helped destroy them...
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[Document, 1796 February 26]

8. [Document, 1796 February 26]

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Addressee)
Date: February 26, 1796
Summary: In regard to Livingston's inquiry about lands to which he is entitled by his military service, Jay declines to give an opinion because of his official position.
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