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[Document, 1798 July 20]

41. [Document, 1798 July 20]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 20, 1798
  • Summary: Hamilton's appointment as major general and inspector-general of the army has met with the approbation of Washington. Pickering suggests that some care should be given to insure Hamilton's precedence in rank over all other major-generals. Adam's nomin...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1798 July 20]

42. [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
Document, 1798 July 28

43. Document, 1798 July 28

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1798 July 28
  • Summary: Acknowledges receipt of 18 July. John Jay will be glad to read in the newspaper that Hamilton has been appointed Inspector General with the rank of Major General, but for the most part the news will receive a mixed reception. I...
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1798 March 15]

44. [Document, 1798 March 15]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 15, 1798
  • Summary: The Chief and several members of the Tuscocora Indians are here. They have been allowed certain rights to the lands of the Oneid as but which for a more stable property. Suggests that the Tuscocoras remain in their present location near Niagara until ...
  • Number of Images: 5
[Document, 1798 May 05]

45. [Document, 1798 May 05]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 05, 1798
  • Summary: The President has appointed Joseph Hopkinson to hold the treaty with the Oneida Indians on June 1. The treaty with the Mohawks held at Albany in March, 1797, has just been formally approved by the President with Senate approval.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1799 February 01]

46. [Document, 1799 February 01]

[Document, 1799 February 01]

47. [Document, 1799 February 01]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 01, 1799
  • Summary: Encloses one set of his report on Gerry's and Shripworth's communications and a dozen copies in smaller compass which John Jay may distribute wherever he thinks best to give "correct ideas of the principles and conduct of France towards the United Sta...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1799 February 01]

48. [Document, 1799 February 01]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 01, 1799
  • Summary: Encloses one set of his report on Gerry's and Shripworth's communications and a dozen copies in smaller compass which John Jay may distribute wherever he thinks best to give "correct ideas of the principles and conduct of France towards the United Sta...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1799 June 13]

49. [Document, 1799 June 13]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 13, 1799
  • Summary: Asks Jay's opinion upon the question of articles which have been condemned by British admiralty judges as contraband. Condemnations have included certain types of iron, generally used for constructing houses, which the British claim can be easily conv...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1799 June 13]

50. [Document, 1799 June 13]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 13, 1799
  • Summary: As John Jay's opinion upon the question of articles which have been condemned by British admiralty judges as contraband. Condemnations have included certain types of iron, generally used for constructing houses, which the British claim can be easily c...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1799 March 18]

51. [Document, 1799 March 18]

[Document, 1799 May 21]

52. [Document, 1799 May 21]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 21, 1799
  • Summary: Encloses description and depositions against one Eyrman, an insurgent German minister. In the U.S. only two and a half years, Eyrman cloaks licentiousness in politics and morals under clerical garb.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1799 May 21]

53. [Document, 1799 May 21]

[Document, 1800 June 09]

54. [Document, 1800 June 09]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Gore, Christopher (Addressee)
  • Date: June 09, 1800
  • Summary: Describes origins of Adams' hatred of himself and others termed by Adams the "Essex Junto." Comments on the pardon given to Fries and his rebels. Extract. Enclosure in 17 June 1800, Pickering to John Jay.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1800 June 17]

55. [Document, 1800 June 17]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 17, 1800
  • Summary: He has not yet determined to publish a vindication of his conduct in respect to the President. Encloses an extract from his letter to Christopher? Gore, giving his opinion on the extraordinary method taken to pardon Fried, Gettmann and Hainey. Extract...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1800 May 05]

56. [Document, 1800 May 05]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 05, 1800
  • Summary: Has received New York acts ceding jurisdiction over Oyster, Bedloes and Governor's Islands in New York Bay, for the purpose of having federal fortifications erected upon them. As to reimbursement of New York State for other harbor fortifications, he c...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1808 December 10]

57. [Document, 1808 December 10]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 10, 1808
  • Summary: Encloses some of the debates in the Senate with observations, and sends a speech of Mr. Giles in a separate packet. Expected some interruption in exposing the deception in the President's ostensible causes for the embargo, but received none. Many of s...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1808 December 10]

58. [Document, 1808 December 10]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 10, 1808
  • Summary: Encloses some of the debates in the Senate with observations, and sends a speech of Mr. Giles in a separate packet. Expected some interruption in exposing the deception in the President's ostensible causes for the embargo, but received none. Many of s...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1808 May 12]

59. [Document, 1808 May 12]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 12, 1808
  • Summary: Encloses a pamphlet which vindicates Pickering's character. In his answer, John Jay expresses his opinion of Pickering's uniformly honorable character.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1809 April 25]

60. [Document, 1809 April 25]

  • Name: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 25, 1809
  • Summary: John Jay's satisfaction with Pickering's public labors gives him gratification and happiness, as does the esteem of all great men. But do not refined talents often fail with the "great mass" of a community? Quotes St. Paul: "I had rather speak five wo...
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