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[Document, 1780 December 24]

1. [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, 1793 July 29]

2. [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 November 22]

3. [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]

4. [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]

5. [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]

6. [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]

7. [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]

8. [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, 1798 July 14]

9. [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