The papers of John Jay

21. [Document, 1796 July 15]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 15, 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.
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22. [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...
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23. [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

24. [Document, 1796 June 04]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 04, 1796
Summary: In last article of Jay Treaty mentions other articles to be added and which Mr. King will be authorized to negotiate with Britain. Asks the nature of subjects in those articles beside the impressments of American seamen. Also in the twelfth article, w...
Number of Images: 1

25. [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

26. [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

27. [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...
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28. [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

29. [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

30. [Document, 1797 July 10]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: July 10, 1797
Summary: Encloses a copy of the convention of the armed neutrality, along with the book containing its history.
Number of Images: 1

31. [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

32. [Document, 1797 June 15]

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: June 15, 1797
Summary: There is nothing to oppose Mr. Bloodgood's claim for a patent on his invention of a floating battery, but as yet he has not taken one. Unless the state adopts the invention he is unlikely to receive any emolument, which has probably occasioned his hes...
Number of Images: 1

33. Document, 1797 March 11

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1797 March 11
Summary: Sorry that Jay's letter asking for Commissioners to deal with the Six Nations, did not arrive before the adjournment of the Senate. He has suggested to the President the expediency of an informal appointment; the President havi...
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34. [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...
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35. [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

36. [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

37. [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

38. Document, 1798 August 2

Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1798 August 2
Summary: Kenneth Rendell Catalog # 45 (1970), item 361. Letter signed. Docketed by Jay. Comments on the recent Congressional resolution directing the printing and distribution of 10,000 copies of documents relating to X,Y, and Z affair....
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39. [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

40. [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: 4

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