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[Document, 1785 February 16]

101. [Document, 1785 February 16]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: February 16, 1785
  • Summary: Longchamps indicted in Philadelphia in 1784 for infraction of law of nations and for assault and battery, against French consul there. Tried and found guilty fined and imprisoned for two years. Every foreigner in U.S. lawfully entitled to protection o...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1785 February 16]

102. [Document, 1785 February 16]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: February 16, 1785
  • Summary: Longchamps indicted in Philadelphia in 1784 for infraction of law of nations and for assault and battery, against French consul there. Tried and found guilty fined and imprisoned for two years. Every foreigner in U.S. lawfully entitled to protection o...
  • Number of Images: 21
[Document, 1785 February 25]

103. [Document, 1785 February 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: February 25, 1785
  • Summary: No commercial agent of the U.S. shall be entitled to a salary unless expressed in the resolutions of his appointment. Pintard elected as the agent for Madeira and Porto Santo (31 Oct. 1793). He wants a leave of absence for four or five months. Jay thi...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1785 February 25]

104. [Document, 1785 February 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: February 25, 1785
  • Summary: No commercial agent of the U.S. shall be entitled to a salary unless expressed in the resolutions of his appointment. Pintard elected as the agent for Madeira and Porto Santo (31 Oct. 1783). He wants a leave of absence for four or five months. Jay thi...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1785 February 5]

105. [Document, 1785 February 5]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: February 5, 1785
  • Summary: Reports instructions for minister in London: ask that America be put in possession immediately of posts still held by British; try to gain British cooperation in inducing Spain to end opposition to free navigation of Mississippi; remonstrate against e...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1785 July 04

106. Document, 1785 July 04

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 July 04
  • Summary: Report against Congress ratifying convention concerning establishment of French and American consuls in both countries. Differences between initial scheme and convention outlined. If three purposes of the convention are: provid...
  • Number of Images: 0
Document, 1785 July 04

107. Document, 1785 July 04

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 July 04
  • Summary: Franco-American consular convention: much discretion given the minister plenipotentiary in making the treaty. Title should read "United States of North America" to include all the states which might be added in the future. Form...
  • Number of Images: 0
Document, 1785 July 04

108. Document, 1785 July 04

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 July 04
  • Summary: Wants to send Gardoqui the following letter: Congress considers Gardoqui's character evincive of Spanish friendship for the U.S. Will do everything to make the mission a success.
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1785 July 04]

109. [Document, 1785 July 04]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 04, 1785
  • Summary: Franco-American consular convention: much discretion given the minister plenipotentiary in making the treaty. Title should read "U.S. of North America" to include all the states which might be added in the future. Form of presentation of commission ch...
  • Number of Images: 13
[Document, 1785 July 04]

110. [Document, 1785 July 04]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 04, 1785
  • Summary: Franco-American consular convention: much discretion given the minister plenipotentiary in making the treaty. Title should read "U.S. of North America" to include all the states which might be added in the future. Form of presentation of commission ch...
  • Number of Images: 22
[Document, 1785 July 04]

111. [Document, 1785 July 04]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 04, 1785
  • Summary: Wants to send Gardoqui the following letter: Congress considers Gardoqui's character evincive of Spanish friendship for the U.S. Will do everything to make the mission a success.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1785 July 08]

112. [Document, 1785 July 08]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 08, 1785
  • Summary: Letter should be sent to King of Spain that we have received with pleasure his encargado de negotios. A mark of Spanish friendship for U.S. which is reciprocated.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1785 July 08]

113. [Document, 1785 July 08]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 08, 1785
  • Summary: On the charge that Pollock was engaged in smuggling contraband goods into Havanna, Gardoqui said he had heard that he had been present when a vessel supposedly loaded with flour landed but it was discovered that in reality it was a cargo of something ...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1785 July 08]

114. [Document, 1785 July 08]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 08, 1785
  • Summary: Letter should be sent to King of Spain that we have received with pleasure his encargado de negotios. A mark of Spanish friendship for U.S. which is reciprocated.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1785 July 08]

115. [Document, 1785 July 08]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 08, 1785
  • Summary: On the charge that Pollock was engaged in smuggling contraband goods into Havanna, Gardoqui said he had heard that he had been present when a vessel supposedly loaded with flour landed but it was discovered that in reality it was a cargo of something ...
  • Number of Images: 9
[Document, 1785 July 13]

116. [Document, 1785 July 13]

[Document, 1785 July 13]

117. [Document, 1785 July 13]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 13, 1785
  • Summary: The commissions of the two new consuls from the Netherlands should be registered by Congress in the Secretary's Office and acts of recognition issued to the states in question so that they may furnish these consuls with their notification of quality.
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1785 July 13]

118. [Document, 1785 July 13]

[Document, 1785 July 13]

119. [Document, 1785 July 13]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: July 13, 1785
  • Summary: The commissions of the two new consuls from the Netherlands should be registered by Congress in the Secretary's Office and acts of recognition issued to the states in question so that they may furnish these consuls with their notification of quality.
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1785 June 09

120. Document, 1785 June 09

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) United States. Continental Congress (Addressee)
  • Date: 1785 June 09
  • Summary: Jay thinks that the letter to David Howell of 19 April respecting Richard Sow and other Americans still detained by the British from the late war should be sent to Adams who will lay it before the Minister and demand that order...
  • Number of Images: 0