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1. [Document, 1768 July n.d. - 1775 April 25]

Document, 1775 April 25

2. Document, 1775 April 25

[Document, 1777 June 02]

3. [Document, 1777 June 02]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 02, 1777
  • Summary: The committees of Orange, Ulster and Dutchess counties to meet the next day to choose the men for the high offices of government for the state of New York. General Schuyler recommended for Governor and General George Clinton for Lieutant Governor. The...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1780 June]

4. [Document, 1780 June]

[Document, 1780 November 20]

5. [Document, 1780 November 20]

Document, 1780 November n.d.

6. Document, 1780 November n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1780 November n.d.
  • Summary: Hasn't received any letters except from Mr. Livingston. Please visit his father and send minute details concerning the state of his health. Send at least a half dozen copies of the letter by various vessels, perhaps one via Mr....
  • Number of Images: 0
Document, 1780 September 18

7. Document, 1780 September 18

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1780 September 18
  • Summary: Sends letter by post, so it must of necessity be reserved. Has received no news from America, although the public good would profit were he kept better informed. Glad to hear Richard Morris appointed Chief Justice of New York, ...
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1781 December 08]

8. [Document, 1781 December 08]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 08, 1781
  • Summary: An extensive letter dealing primarily with arrangements John Jay asks Benson to make to have Peter A. Jay live with Harry Livingston, so that the boy may be close to John Jay's father, yet not be a burden to the Jay family. News of Yorktown has arrive...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1781 March 19]

9. [Document, 1781 March 19]

[Document, 1781 March 19]

10. [Document, 1781 March 19]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 19, 1781
  • Summary: Complains of not having received letters from friends in New York. Confesses his homesickness:"I never loved or admired America so much as since I left " First page cropped at bottom, with one or two lines missing. Autograph Letter signed. Two page ma...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1782 August 26]

11. [Document, 1782 August 26]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 26, 1782
  • Summary: The Vermont matter--from what Benson relates it appears"...to have been bitched in the last as well as first stages...." Now that it is over with there are other boundary lines to be settled. It is essential that this be done without causing dissensio...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1782 August 26]

12. [Document, 1782 August 26]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: August 26, 1782
  • Summary: The Vermont business was botched. Good Americans will try to remove all grounds of dissension between the states. "Our power, respectability, and happiness will forever depend on our union." Foreign nations would rejoice to see us split apart and beco...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1783 April 06]

13. [Document, 1783 April 06]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 06, 1783
  • Summary: Sends a letter for Fady and wants Peter to take the farm at Rye and have it valued. Should take a good intelligent couple with him. Jay will back his expenses.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1783 April 06]

14. [Document, 1783 April 06]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 06, 1783
  • Summary: Sends a letter for Fady and wants Peter to take the farm at Rye and have it valued. Should take a good intelligent couple with him. Jay will back his expenses.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1783 August 15]

15. [Document, 1783 August 15]

[Document, 1783 December 15]

16. [Document, 1783 December 15]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 15, 1783
  • Summary: Instructions concerning the distribution of the farm at Rye from the estate of Peter Jay to John Jay's brother, Peter Jay. Requests Benson to take steps to provide for the old age of Jay's mare, and also to repurchase her colt. Has met many Americans ...
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[Document, 1783 December 15]

17. [Document, 1783 December 15]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 15, 1783
  • Summary: Wants Peter to take the farm at Rye. Met with some of the Tories whose conduct was unexceptionable but passed others by as strangers.
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1783 July 10]

18. [Document, 1783 July 10]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 10, 1783
  • Summary: He still complains about mail being opened--"Jealousy and suspicion never sleep in Governments of a certain Denomination-" His brother Peter should have the farm at Rye, but should not move there until the summer of 1784, and certainly not before New ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1783 September 12]

19. [Document, 1783 September 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 (Addressee)
  • Date: September 12, 1783
  • Summary: Announces birth of daughter, Benson is godfather. New York's violent resolutions against the Tories injure the American cause in Europe. They are working to achieve the evacuation of New York as soon as possible.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1784 November 04]

20. [Document, 1784 November 04]