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[Document, 1722 n.d.]

1. [Document, 1722 n.d.]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1722 n.d.
  • Summary: Notes on his father, Peter Jay
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1731 n.d.

2. Document, 1731 n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1731 n.d.
  • Summary: Endorsed by Jay "Memorial of Grievances in the Province of New York"
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1765 April 02]

3. [Document, 1765 April 02]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 02, 1765
  • Summary: After conversation with Livingston, Jay retired to reflect on it. Will say in this letter the sentiments he was too embarrassed to say to his face. Livingston possesses every social qualification and mental endowment. Jay had early thought of forming ...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1765 April 19

4. Document, 1765 April 19

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R. (Addressee)
  • Date: 1765 April 19
  • Summary: Tells Livingston why he writes complimentary rather than critical letters to him. With compliments he hopes to achieve all that could be attained by censure. Commiserates with Livingston on his disappointment.
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1765 April 19]

5. [Document, 1765 April 19]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: April 19, 1765
  • Summary: Reply to letter from Livingston of April 18. Encloses something for Livingston to read and criticize. Is undetermined with respect to the property of many things contained in it and would like Livingston's ???? to resolve doubts.
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1765 May 01

6. Document, 1765 May 01

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R. (Addressee)
  • Date: 1765 May 01
  • Summary: ALS. Written in response to a letter from Livingston, who was still attending King's College: "I have often remarked Ambition to be one of your strongest Passions, and have as often been surprised that instead of attending to s...
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1765 October 31]

7. [Document, 1765 October 31]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 31, 1765
  • Summary: Profuse thanks for Livingston's actions. "I think myself extremely happy in an assurance from you (whom I can't suspect of dissimulation) that no other material deficiency marks my character than the one you mention: and I thankfully acknowledge endea...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1765 October 31]

8. [Document, 1765 October 31]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: October 31, 1765
  • Summary: Profuse thanks for Livingston's analysis of his character. "I think myself extremely happy in an assurance from you (whom I can't suspect of dissimulation) that no other material deficiency marks my character than the one you mention: and I thankfully...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1766 March 04]

9. [Document, 1766 March 04]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 04, 1766
  • Summary: Letter from John Jay to Robert R. Livingston. Livingston is now in the country at the family estate Clermont, after having been "highly entertained of late, and by your account of the Matter have attained every Qualification necessary to form a Buck."...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1768 September n...

10. [Document, 1768 September n.d. - 1791 October 31]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Low, Abraham (Addressee) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Author) Tappen, Christopher, 1742-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: September, 1768 - October 31, 1791
  • Summary: An account with Christopher Tappen, concerning various court costs incurred by the partnership of Jay & Livingston, 1768-1772. Settled by Jay and Livingston on 7 December, 1790 and 31 March, 1791, each paying one half of the outstanding costs. Receipt...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1769 January n.d.]

11. [Document, 1769 January n.d.]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Addressee)
  • Date: 1769 January n.d.
  • Summary: Jay did not receive the recent letter from Livingston, and Livingston did not receive the two letters in which Jay informs him of the dissolution of the New York Assembly by Governor Sir Henry Moore. Discusses the measures taken by the DeLancey factio...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1769 September 1]

12. [Document, 1769 September 1]

Document, 1770 February 12

13. Document, 1770 February 12

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) DeWitt, Charles (Addressee)
  • Date: 1770 February 12
  • Summary: Jay asks DeWitt to negotiate the purchase of some horses for his father.
  • Number of Images: 0
Document, 1770 January n.d.

14. Document, 1770 January n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1770 January n.d.
  • Summary: Lists miscellaneous expenditures totaling 53/19/6, pounds such as payment for a blank book, for binding two books, for a trunk to carry papers to Hartford (13 shillings sixpence); for a chest to carry the papers from Hartford, ...
  • Number of Images: 0
Document, 1770 January n.d.

15. Document, 1770 January n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1770 January n.d.
  • Summary: Bill totaling 3/19/6 for miscellaneous expenses, including the binding of two books (1/12/6); a trunk to carry papers to Hartford (13 shillings), a chest for bringing papers from Hartford, the trunk having broken on the journey...
  • Number of Images: 0
Document, 1770 n.d. - 1775 ...

16. Document, 1770 n.d. - 1775 n.d.

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1770 n.d. - 1775 n.d.
  • Summary: Question on the allocation of fees in two cases of ejectment brought before the Supreme Court of Judicature. The same witnesses and surveys were required in each case. The Chief Justice has asked Jay and six other "Practisers" ...
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1771 April 29]

17. [Document, 1771 April 29]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Rapalje, Garret (Addressee)
  • Date: April 29, 1771
  • Summary: Jay received a notice from a David Jones to start an action against William D. Faulkner, Anthony Van Eyck and Rapalje for 56 pounds 2 shillings. Jay hopes an amicable settlement will prevent further trouble and expense of a suit.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1771 December 27]

18. [Document, 1771 December 27]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Kempe, John Tabor (Addressee)
  • Date: December 27, 1771
  • Summary: Jay thinks the charge of a certain Faulkner's robbing a company no more than a breach of trust. Wants to try to recover damages on other counts. The information of a partnership should not appear in the declaration. A Mr. Bloomer retained Jay, Duane a...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1771 July 25

19. Document, 1771 July 25

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Dumond, Egbert (Addressee)
  • Date: 1771 July 25
  • Summary: Autograph letter signed, 1 p., Thanking the Sheriff for sending him a legal case. Sold by John Wanamaker, Ogden Mills, and G. F. King on October 25-26, 1939
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1771 June 12]

20. [Document, 1771 June 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: June 12, 1771
  • Summary: Jay sends a petition to Earl of Dunmore, Governor of New York, asking for a tract of vacant land on the east side of the Hudson river in Albany county.
  • Number of Images: 3