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[Document, 1777 March 03]

1. [Document, 1777 March 03]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 03, 1777
  • Summary: Master Peter has departed, "one of his grandfathers will go home with a heavy heart" on account of his being gone. General Howe lately arrived at Brunswick and enemy reinforced with 3-4,000 men. They will probably make a bold push to "retrieve their l...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1778 December 12]

2. [Document, 1778 December 12]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: December 12, 1778
  • Summary: Letterbook copy. Congratulates John Jay on election as President of Congress. He acknowledges the recept of six copies of an Act of Congress, mentions correspondence with Mr. Laurens for commissions for privateers, and believes privateering in New Jer...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1778 December 21]

3. [Document, 1778 December 21]

[Document, 1779 April 23]

4. [Document, 1779 April 23]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 23, 1779
  • Summary: Livingston sends a letter to be filed with the papers of the Continental Congress. 2 August 1775. Dartmouth to Earl of Dunmore: Dunmore is now returning to England. Earlier had proposed to form a force of Indians and Negroes sufficient to subdue the r...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1779 April 23]

5. [Document, 1779 April 23]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 23, 1779
  • Summary: Letterbook copy. Misdated "1774." Sends Jay, as President of Congress, a "Letter (which lately fell into my hands) which may perhaps be of some use to file among the papers of Congress." Proof that the British have tried "to procure both our domestic ...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1779 February 8]

6. [Document, 1779 February 8]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: February 8, 1779
  • Summary: Letterbook copy. Acknowledges the receipt of John Jay's letter 20 Jan. enclosing 2 resolutions of Congress: that of 5 Jan. proposed to raise monetary quotas of the states for the year 1779 through taxation and that of 1 Jan. recommended that the state...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1779 June 10]

7. [Document, 1779 June 10]

[Document, 1779 June 17]

8. [Document, 1779 June 17]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: June 17, 1779
  • Summary: Letterbook copy. Informs John Jay that the British are maneuvering nearby. To avoid capture, he is fixing his headquarters at Middlebrook "for some weeks, and perhaps during the summer" where dispatches may be sent. Aplogizes that he could not visit J...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1779 March 20]

9. [Document, 1779 March 20]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 20, 1779
  • Summary: Letterbook copy. Preceding pages of letterbook missing, this represents only the last page of Livingston's letter of this date. Efforts to respond to Congress's call to complete New Jersey's enlistment quota when assembly stands adjourned until next M...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1779 May 20]

10. [Document, 1779 May 20]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 20, 1779
  • Summary: Letterbook copy. John Jay is informed that Mr. Condict "goes to Congress on some public Business" for New Jersey. Condict is " "a particular friend" and Livingston hopes John Jay and the Colonel [Henry Brockholst Livingston], will extend a warm welcom...
  • Number of Images: 2
Document, 1779 September 20

11. Document, 1779 September 20

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1779 September 20
  • Summary: Encloses: James Tagart to William A. Livingston, 30 Aug. 1779; William A. Livingston to William Livingston, 8 Sept. 1779. As he is unacquainted with Tagart, thinks it best to refer his request for a pass to Congress. Thinks it ...
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1780 March 17]

12. [Document, 1780 March 17]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 17, 1780
  • Summary: Letterbook copy. He hopes John and Sarah Jay arrive safely in Madrid. Advocates John Jay's cultivation of a correspondence with the Baron Van der Capellan "in order to learn the politics of his Republic." The Baron is interested in America, and could ...
  • Number of Images: 5
[Document, 1780 March 17]

13. [Document, 1780 March 17]

[Document, 1781 January 14]

14. [Document, 1781 January 14]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 14, 1781
  • Summary: Sweet Catalog #141, item 89. Description of autograph letter signed. Military successes in South. Mutiny of Pennsylvania line. Description of mutineers' march to Princeton. General Clinton's attempts to take advantage of situation. Spies sent to mutin...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1781 March 10]

15. [Document, 1781 March 10]

[Document, 1781 March 10 an...

16. [Document, 1781 March 10 and 20]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 10 and 20, 1781
  • Summary: News of military victories in South. News that Cornwallis is in retreat -- "We shall soon drive the scoundrels from that country." Generals Mughlenburgh and Nelson laying siege to Arnold at Portsmouth, but he can escape unless the French fleet interve...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1781 March 20]

17. [Document, 1781 March 20]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 20, 1781
  • Summary: Writing from Trenton, reports that the French fleet has set out in pursuit of Arnold, and may succeed in catching him because of the superiority of their naval forces. Congress has at last consented to "what I know was agreeable to your Idea before yo...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1783 February 13]

18. [Document, 1783 February 13]

[Document, 1783 January 08]

19. [Document, 1783 January 08]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: January 08, 1783
  • Summary: Comments on the sagacity of Master Peter Augustus Jay. Asks Jay to send seeds of plants which do not exist in America. If this seems an odd commission for an ambassador, consider its diversion from the circuitous paths through which Oswald's diplomacy...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1783 May 21]

20. [Document, 1783 May 21]

  • Name: Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: May 21, 1783
  • Summary: Treaty universally applauded, hopes John Jay on way home soon. Whigs are opposed to receiving back the refugees; many also are reluctant to pay taxes.
  • Number of Images: 2