The papers of John Jay

1. [Document, 1795 August 14]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: August 14, 1795
Summary: Suggests that the president give a solemn declaration of the principles of his administration, etc. in order to counteract the "infamous calumnies" which "are industriously disseminated to render suspected and odious the real friends to their country ...
Number of Images: 2

2. [Document, 1795 July 16]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 16, 1795
Summary: Concerns a mistake made in the act authorizing the purchase of the lands of the Onondagas and other Indian tribes.
Number of Images: 2

3. [Document, 1795 October 06]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Lewis, William (Addressee) Rawle, William, 1788-1858 (Addressee)
Date: October 06, 1795
Summary: Asks for their opinion on the manner in which to handle the case of the American vessel, the Betsey, which has been condemned at Bermuda, in the light of the treaty between the United States and England.
Number of Images: 2

4. [Document, 1795 October 10]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: October 10, 1795
Summary: Concerns the problem of spoliations.
Number of Images: 3

5. [Document, 1795 September 01]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: September 01, 1795
Summary: Concerns the form of proceeding prescribed by the law for regulating the sale of Indian lands.
Number of Images: 2

6. [Document, 1796 January 13]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 13, 1796
Summary: In answer to John Jay's question, the allowance for a commissioner holding a treaty with the Indians customarily has been 8 dollars a day and necessary expenses.
Number of Images: 1

7. [Document, 1796 January 21]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 21, 1796
Summary: Discusses the money owed to David Blaney, who was employed to bring the treaty to the United States.
Number of Images: 1

8. [Document, 1796 July 16]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 16, 1796
Summary: A question has arisen concerning the river St. Croix, mentioned in Article 5 of the British treaty. He has already written to Hamilton about this, but as opportunity presents itself, he takes the liberty of requesting Jay's opinion. This letter appear...
Number of Images: 1

9. [Document, 1796 July 16]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 (Addressee)
Date: July 16, 1796
Summary: What arrangements are to be made to create the commission to fix the River St. Croix boundary. Jay in 1785 made some suggestions on this subject, and the general agreement seems to have been that the Commissioners should be drawn from regions other th...
Number of Images: 3

10. [Document, 1796 June 04]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 04, 1796
Summary: Asks what John Jay meant by the last article of the treaty in which it is stated that other articles should be added which could not then be perfected because of the lack of time and other circumstances.
Number of Images: 1

11. [Document, 1796 October 26]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: October 26, 1796
Summary: The men he mentions in his letter of 20 October, have been found to be impostors, who claimed American citizenship to avoid imprisonment by the French. Actually they are British, and have caused great trouble for all concerned with them.
Number of Images: 1

12. [Document, 1797 December 13]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: December 13, 1797
Summary: Mr. FitzSimons, one of the commissioners on the claims of British debts, would like John Jay's opinion on two questions relating to that business: (1) on which side lay the onus probundi respecting the solvency or insolvency of the debt; (2) whether i...
Number of Images: 2

13. [Document, 1797 January 23]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: January 23, 1797
Summary: He expects Jay has seen Washington's letter concerning French affairs. Has used Jay's name in discussion of French claims to America's gratitude. Feels that American-French relations should be documented in print. Whole subject needs a complete histor...
Number of Images: 1

14. [Document, 1797 June 08]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 08, 1797
Summary: Pickering's letter to General Pinckney, containing the interpretation of the temporary nature of the agreement in the ninth article of the convention of the armed neutrality, has occasioned much reproach among the democrats, or "French Devotees." He w...
Number of Images: 2

15. [Document, 1797 October 28]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: October 28, 1797
Summary: Has received a copy of the treaty of commerce between Great Britain and Russia; a subsequent declaration concerning the 11th article of this treaty enables Britain to favor the trade of the United States. Talleyrand's appointment seems to favor the Am...
Number of Images: 2

16. [Document, 1797 September 09]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: September 09, 1797
Summary: Has answered the "rude and insolent letter" of the Chevalier de Yrujo of 11 July in the event that this letter be laid before Co. Humphreys at Madrid or Congress. This answer has been printed although it is not to be published unless ordered by Congre...
Number of Images: 2

17. [Document, 1798 April 09]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: April 09, 1798
Summary: Encloses dispatches from the envoys in Paris. Leaders of the opposition in Congress still oppose efficient measures of defense by sea, and perhaps by land as well. Galatin professes to believe negotiations have begun; Jefferson says "there is no evide...
Number of Images: 1

18. [Document, 1798 August 06]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: August 06, 1798
Summary: Is sending copies of laws passed at the last session of Congress. Proposes to send 800 copies of instructions to and dispatches from the envoys to France, and encloses a plan of distribution for them.
Number of Images: 3

19. [Document, 1798 July 06]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Washington, George, 1732-1799 (Addressee)
Date: July 06, 1798
Summary: The army should be organized in the most efficient manner in order to meet the experienced forces of the enemy. Pickering and others feel Colonel Hamilton is the best person to serve "the Second to You, and the Chief in your absence." Assumes Washingt...
Number of Images: 3

20. [Document, 1798 July 20]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 20, 1798
Summary: Hamilton has been appointed Inspector General with the rank of Major General; worries about the effect since he was not "taken from the line." Enjoys reading John Jay's sentiments and shows how they coincide with his own by enclosing a copy of his let...
Number of Images: 3

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