The papers of John Jay

[Document, 1780 August 28]

1. [Document, 1780 August 28]

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: August 28, 1780
Summary: Comments on the closeness of death before the safe arrival at Martinique. The passage to Cadiz was pleasant, but Mrs. Jay was indisposed due to rough weather and another reason "I leave you to conjecture." From Cadiz the Jay party journeyed to Port St...
Number of Images: 14

[Document, 1780 December 24]

2. [Document, 1780 December 24]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: December 24, 1780
Summary: She is indignant that her letters to Mrs. Jay are intercepted-even though they go with the Congressional dispatches. They miss the Jays very much, and sympathize with them on the loss of their infant daughter. Mrs. Jay should take comfort in the healt...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1783 April 16]

3. [Document, 1783 April 16]

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: April 16, 1783
Summary: Written many letters, not received any reply. Longing for change and wants to learn new arrangements that have or will take place if treaty is concluded. Do not mean political changes. Much rather be mistress of a dairy and farm home than return to Sp...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1785 August 08]

4. [Document, 1785 August 08]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: August 08, 1785
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1790 February 07]

5. [Document, 1790 February 07]

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: February 07, 1790
Summary: Sorry to hear Susan is still in low spirits. Although they have all had to deal with much in the last few months, they must try to bear up under the burden. It is Susan's duty to console their declining father. When he dies it will help to be able to ...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1790 n.d.]

6. [Document, 1790 n.d.]

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: 1790 n.d.
Summary: Probably written during the summer of 1790. Family news. Jay ill, and convalescing at Rye.
Number of Images: 3

[Document, 1792 November 12]

7. [Document, 1792 November 12]

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: November 12, 1792
Summary: News of family and friends. Jay has recovered health sufficiently to travel to Rye to convalesce.
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1793 July 29]

8. [Document, 1793 July 29]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: July 29, 1793
Summary: Anecdotes of life in Baltimore during the period when the city offered refugees from the French West Indian Islands. Mr. Millot, whose family has been boarding with Catharine Ridley and Susan Livingston, will be moving to N.J. He has given the sisters...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1794 April 11]

9. [Document, 1794 April 11]

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: April 11, 1794
Summary: Has heard the country to which you are going is wonderful; must be happy that Susy goes with you. We expect to move to Bedford by next spring after Mr. Jay returns from the circuit. Wishes to stay there until Maria is 16 and then would return to finis...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1794 November 22]

10. [Document, 1794 November 22]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: November 22, 1794
Summary: Typed copy of document 12988. The Symmeses have been delayed at the crossing of the Juniata because of the many vehicles to be ferried over. The roads are very bad because they had been cut up by army vehicles during the rainy season. The Symmeses saw...
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1794 November 22]

11. [Document, 1794 November 22]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: November 22, 1794
Summary: Autograph Letter signed. The Symmeses have been delayed at the crossing of the Juniata because of the many vehicles to be ferried over. The roads are very bad because they had been cut up by army vehicles during the rainy season. The Symmeses saw Alex...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1794 November 24]

12. [Document, 1794 November 24]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: November 24, 1794
Summary: Typed copy of document 12989. Susan Symmes and her husband have travelled a long way over dreadful roads, and the hundred miles still to come are still worse, she hears. The mountains are called "Nobs here, but to be sure the Nobs are such mountains a...
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1794 November 24]

13. [Document, 1794 November 24]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: November 24, 1794
Summary: Autograph Letter signed. Susan Symmes and her husband have travelled a long way over dreadful roads, and the hundred miles still to come are still worse, she hears. The mountains are called "Nobs here, but to be sure the Nobs are such mountains as you...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1796 March 03]

14. [Document, 1796 March 03]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: March 03, 1796
Summary: Typed copy. The inhabitants of the land in the Ohio Territory around the Symmes' are busy making maple sugar. It is "very pretty looking sugar, tho I can't be reconciled to the taste; we give from 15d. to a quarr. of a doll. pr. pd. according to its q...
Number of Images: 2

[Document, 1796 March 3]

15. [Document, 1796 March 3]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: March 3, 1796
Summary: Describes Ohio Territory and maple sugar camps that have sprung up there. In a postscript addressed to Maria Jay, describes the marriage of her stepdaughter to William Henry Harrison. Governor Symmes disapproved the match; Anthony Wayne helped arrange...
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1797 February 22]

16. [Document, 1797 February 22]

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: February 22, 1797
Summary: Family news. They learned of the death of Essex Ridley shortly before they were to leave for the ball celebrating Washington's birthday. Peter A. Jay is heartsick and the entire family is depressed.
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1798 July 14]

17. [Document, 1798 July 14]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
Date: July 14, 1798
Summary: Will accept Sarah's invitation if she cannot come to Oakhill. Has opened a school and hopes Ann will attend. Family news.
Number of Images: 1

[Document, 1798 March 25]

18. [Document, 1798 March 25]

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Addressee)
Date: March 25, 1798
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1810 July 29]

19. [Document, 1810 July 29]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
Date: July 29, 1810
Number of Images: 4

[Document, 1811 December 10]

20. [Document, 1811 December 10]

Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Maria (Addressee)
Date: December 10, 1811
Number of Images: 2

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