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1. [Document, 1777 March 03]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: March 03, 1777
- Summary: Master Peter has departed, "one of his grandfathers will go home with a heavy heart" on account of his being gone. General Howe lately arrived at Brunswick and enemy reinforced with 3-4,000 men. They will probably make a bold push to "retrieve their l...
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1778 December 12]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143754/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
2. [Document, 1778 December 12]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: December 12, 1778
- Summary: Letterbook copy. Congratulates John Jay on election as President of Congress. He acknowledges the recept of six copies of an Act of Congress, mentions correspondence with Mr. Laurens for commissions for privateers, and believes privateering in New Jer...
- Number of Images: 3
![[Document, 1778 December 21]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:45317/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
3. [Document, 1778 December 21]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: December 21, 1778
- Summary: Agrees to Brockholst Livingston staying with Jay as Jay's private secretary.
- Number of Images: 1
![[Document, 1779 April 23]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:33665/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
4. [Document, 1779 April 23]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: April 23, 1779
- Summary: Livingston sends a letter to be filed with the papers of the Continental Congress. 2 August 1775. Dartmouth to Earl of Dunmore: Dunmore is now returning to England. Earlier had proposed to form a force of Indians and Negroes sufficient to subdue the r...
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1779 April 23]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143752/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
5. [Document, 1779 April 23]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: April 23, 1779
- Summary: Letterbook copy. Misdated "1774." Sends Jay, as President of Congress, a "Letter (which lately fell into my hands) which may perhaps be of some use to file among the papers of Congress." Proof that the British have tried "to procure both our domestic ...
- Number of Images: 1
![[Document, 1779 February 8]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143720/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
6. [Document, 1779 February 8]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: February 8, 1779
- Summary: Letterbook copy. Acknowledges the receipt of John Jay's letter 20 Jan. enclosing 2 resolutions of Congress: that of 5 Jan. proposed to raise monetary quotas of the states for the year 1779 through taxation and that of 1 Jan. recommended that the state...
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1779 July 12]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143732/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
7. [Document, 1779 July 12]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
- Date: July 12, 1779
- Summary: Letterbook copy. Acknowledges receipt at Morristown of John Jay's letter which he forwarded to their mother. Thanks Sarah Jay for the invitation to visit Philadelphia; since the Assembly's adjournment enemy activity in New Jersey has prevented it to d...
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1779 June 10]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143724/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
8. [Document, 1779 June 10]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: June 10, 1779
- Summary: Letterbook copy. Introduces to John Jay Mr. Houston who was appointed a delegate to Congress from New Jersey
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1779 June 17]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143728/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
9. [Document, 1779 June 17]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: June 17, 1779
- Summary: Letterbook copy. Informs John Jay that the British are maneuvering nearby. To avoid capture, he is fixing his headquarters at Middlebrook "for some weeks, and perhaps during the summer" where dispatches may be sent. Aplogizes that he could not visit J...
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1779 March 20]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143746/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
10. [Document, 1779 March 20]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: March 20, 1779
- Summary: Letterbook copy. Preceding pages of letterbook missing, this represents only the last page of Livingston's letter of this date. Efforts to respond to Congress's call to complete New Jersey's enlistment quota when assembly stands adjourned until next M...
- Number of Images: 1
![[Document, 1779 May 20]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143748/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
11. [Document, 1779 May 20]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: May 20, 1779
- Summary: Letterbook copy. John Jay is informed that Mr. Condict "goes to Congress on some public Business" for New Jersey. Condict is " "a particular friend" and Livingston hopes John Jay and the Colonel [Henry Brockholst Livingston], will extend a warm welcom...
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1779 October 07]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:45311/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
12. [Document, 1779 October 07]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
- Date: October 07, 1779
- Summary: Livingston is pained that he will be separated from his daughter by the wide ocean. In case he should never see her again, he asks God's blessing for a safe voyage and happy return for her. He entreats her not to allow "the Gaieties and Amusements of ...
- Number of Images: 2

13. Document, 1779 October 16
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
- Date: 1779 October 16
- Summary: Congratulations and praise to John Jay for being chosen. Sarah has made the wisest decision in accompanying him. The family expects to receive news from abroad.
- Number of Images: 0

14. Document, 1779 September 20
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: 1779 September 20
- Summary: Encloses: James Tagart to William A. Livingston, 30 Aug. 1779; William A. Livingston to William Livingston, 8 Sept. 1779. As he is unacquainted with Tagart, thinks it best to refer his request for a pass to Congress. Thinks it ...
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![[Document, 1780 March 17]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:143736/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
15. [Document, 1780 March 17]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: March 17, 1780
- Summary: Letterbook copy. He hopes John and Sarah Jay arrive safely in Madrid. Advocates John Jay's cultivation of a correspondence with the Baron Van der Capellan "in order to learn the politics of his Republic." The Baron is interested in America, and could ...
- Number of Images: 5
![[Document, 1780 March 17]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:86175/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
16. [Document, 1780 March 17]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: March 17, 1780
- Number of Images: 4
![[Document, 1781 August 21]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:140022/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
17. [Document, 1781 August 21]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
- Date: August 21, 1781
- Summary: "Duplicate" autograph letter signed. Robert Morris is in charge of finance, and there are high hopes that he will put them on an even keel. The British have lost all of their possessions in South Carolina except Charleston, and in Georgia, they hold o...
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![[Document, 1781 February 8]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:74949/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
18. [Document, 1781 February 8]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
- Date: February 8, 1781
- Summary: Chides Peter Augustus for forgetting to write his grandfather. Account of the battle between Morgan and Tarleton the preceding month, with losses stated. Report was made to Congress in a letter from General Greene.
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![[Document, 1781 January 14]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:45301/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
19. [Document, 1781 January 14]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
- Date: January 14, 1781
- Summary: "Duplicate" autograph letter signed. Condolences on death of Sarah's baby girl. Has sent Peter Augustus Jay a primer as requested. Peter is "a very fine boy" who has written a letter with the help of his aunt Susan Livingston.
- Number of Images: 2
![[Document, 1781 January 14]](https://triclops.library.columbia.edu/iiif/2/featured/ldpd:79759/full/!256,256/0/default.jpg)
20. [Document, 1781 January 14]
- Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
- Date: January 14, 1781
- Summary: Sweet Catalog #141, item 89. Description of autograph letter signed. Military successes in South. Mutiny of Pennsylvania line. Description of mutineers' march to Princeton. General Clinton's attempts to take advantage of situation. Spies sent to mutin...
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