The papers of John Jay

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Susan (Addressee)
Date: March 16, 1778
Summary: Sally is quite satisfied to leave her son Peter with Susan right now and thinks his education should be well advanced when she next sees him. Thinks he will have been "taught to d-n the King and say the Westminster Confession of Faith."
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Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, Peter (Addressee) Livingston, Catherine (Addressee) Livingston, Susan (Addressee) Livingston, Susannah French, 1723-1789 (Addressee) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
Date: December 12, 1779 - March 14, 1781
Summary: Volume of manuscript copies of nine letters from Mrs. Jay to members of her family, 12 December 1779- 14 March 1781, prepared by her older sister, Catharine Livingston. The unnumbered pages preceding the letters' texts contain a leaf to which Sarah Ja...
Number of Images: 99

Name: Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823 (Author) Livingston, Catherine (Addressee) Livingston, Susan (Addressee)
Date: February 3, 1781
Summary: Writes from L'Orient. Tells his sisters not to envy the situation in Europe. Misses all his friends and family. Jay is very kind to him. French ladies are more attractive than the Spanish -- except for their excess use of rouge. Mrs. Jay is well. Asks...
Number of Images: 5

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Livingston, Susan (Addressee)
Date: April 16, 1783
Summary: Asks for news of friends and relatives. She longs to return to America and settle on a farm, but fears that they may have to return to Spain. Sends some fans to Susan and her mother.
Number of Images: 2

Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Livingston, Susan (Addressee)
Date: November 22, 1783
Summary: Surprised that her sister has not had letter from her in two years; had sent many. Happy to find mother and Kitty in better health. So happy son has had measles and free from bad effects -- now can meet his little sisters and the rest of the family. V...
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Name: Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Livingston, Susan (Addressee)
Date: November 22, 1783
Summary: Surprised other has not had letter from her in two years; had sent many. Happy to find mother and Kitty in better health. So happy son has had measles and free from bad effects -- now can meet his little sisters and the rest of the family. Very happy ...
Number of Images: 2

Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Susan (Addressee)
Date: March 19, 1789
Summary: Will she come over to stay with the Jay's. Sally's health is worse. Enclosed is packet of seeds for William Livingston.
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Susan (Addressee)
Date: September 26, 1793
Summary: Encloses a power of attorney which she and Catherine Ridley should fill in, and execute before a witness who will come to New York to prove their signatures. City continues free from malignant fever that distresses Philadelphia.
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Gérard, Conrad Alexandre, 1729-1790 (Addressee) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Author) Jay, Peter (Addressee) Livingston, Catherine (Addressee) Livingston, Susan (Addressee) Livingston, Susannah French, 1723-1789 (Addressee) Livingston, William, 1723-1790 (Addressee)
Date: ante 1765 and January 1, 1780 - March 14, 1781
Summary: John Jay's School Copybook (ante 1765) and Sarah Jay's Letterbook, 1 January 1780-14 March 1781. Paperbound copybook opening with eight leaves inscribed by John Jay, probably ante 1765, containing conjugations of French verbs and declensions of French...
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