The papers of John Jay

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Addressee)
Date: July 08, 1798
Number of Images: 4

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: March 10, 1798
Summary: Has seen Jefferson at Philadelphia, who has fallen in the esteem of many in northern and eastern states resulting in a want of harmony in public councils. Feels that parties are neither "necessary or salutary in our government." He also visited Washin...
Number of Images: 4

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Elias, Augustus (Addressee) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Addressee)
Date: March 28, 1798
Summary: Jefferson is suspected of designs which threaten the happiness and independence of the United States by subjecting it to the will of a foreign nation which "sacrifices everything to its insatiable appetite for aggrandizement and universal domination."...
Number of Images: 4

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Addressee)
Date: February 17, 1799
Summary: While he is displeased with the abstract form of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, he is even more distressed at their spirit. Antipathy to aliens has, in Kentucky, suddenly been turned to sympathy since the ratification of the British treaty. Si...
Number of Images: 4

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: January 07, 1799 - October 12, 1801
Number of Images: 4

Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Addressee)
Date: November 30, 1800
Number of Images: 4

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: October 15, 1800
Summary: Describes development of Washington with philosophical comment. Mentions poor state of commerce, which obtains "in every town in the United States" but mentions optimism about development.
Number of Images: 4

Name: Woodward, Augustus B. (Augustus Brevoort), 1774-1827 (Author) Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Addressee)
Date: March 17, 1801
Summary: General personal comment, and requests Peter's aid in moving his sister from New York to Washington.
Number of Images: 4

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