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[Document, 1776 November 01]

1. [Document, 1776 November 01]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
  • Date: November 01, 1776
  • Summary: Received Jay's letter from Mr. Line. Feared the latter would get taken delivering the letter; they had heard the enemy had made rapid progress in New York. Has not heard about Dr. Bailey whom she thought was with the British on Staten Island and think...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1777 November 01]

2. [Document, 1777 November 01]

  • Name: Livingston, Catherine (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 01, 1777
  • Summary: Post irregular; some shipments of personal effects presumed lost. Action of troops in the area. Neither the Whigs nor Tories like the articles of capitulation published in the London papers. Peter to be inoculated against small pox. Brockholst not hea...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1779 October 09]

3. [Document, 1779 October 09]

[Document, 1780 December 24]

4. [Document, 1780 December 24]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: December 24, 1780
  • Summary: She is indignant that her letters to Mrs. Jay are intercepted-even though they go with the Congressional dispatches. They miss the Jays very much, and sympathize with them on the loss of their infant daughter. Mrs. Jay should take comfort in the healt...
  • Number of Images: 4
Document, 1780 October 21

5. Document, 1780 October 21

[Document, 1781 July 18]

6. [Document, 1781 July 18]

  • Name: Jay, Peter A. (Peter Augustus), 1776-1843 (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee) Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author)
  • Date: July 18, 1781
  • Summary: Text of letter written out for Peter by his aunt, Susan Livingston, but with a neatly printed signature which is presumably Peter's. Is learning his lessons well from his Aunt Susan. Aunt Catharine sends him books from Philadelphia. He has finished th...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1781 July 18]

7. [Document, 1781 July 18]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: July 18, 1781
  • Summary: Every person prefers her or his native land. We "think ourselves happy in not being born amid the gloom of superstition, ignorance, and idolatry, but under the sweet simplicity of the gospel." Washington makes rapid progress toward New York City, and ...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1781 May 10]

8. [Document, 1781 May 10]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: May 10, 1781
  • Summary: The last batch of letters was almost lost due to the carelessness of Dr. Vinans. Hannah is very pleased with the present. Peter Augustus is well. Peter Jay was plundered by a group of robbers, as was Mr. John Reade and Mr. Comfort Sands. It is unfortu...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1781 May 27]

9. [Document, 1781 May 27]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: May 27, 1781
  • Summary: Is concerned that her letters have not reached Sarah. Mentions the enemy occupation of the territory in which they live. Peter Augustus Jay shook hands with a British General who said that he supposed that the child had been taught to think that the B...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1781 October 01]

10. [Document, 1781 October 01]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: October 01, 1781
  • Summary: When Mr. Jay goes to Jersey with Peter, he will return with his wife. It was very natural for her to want to see her relatives, but going into the British lines is very bad for Mr. Jay, since he is a member of the legislature. News of the family. Ever...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1785 August 08]

11. [Document, 1785 August 08]

[Document, 1793 July 29]

12. [Document, 1793 July 29]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: July 29, 1793
  • Summary: Anecdotes of life in Baltimore during the period when the city offered refugees from the French West Indian Islands. Mr. Millot, whose family has been boarding with Catharine Ridley and Susan Livingston, will be moving to N.J. He has given the sisters...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1794 November 22]

13. [Document, 1794 November 22]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 22, 1794
  • Summary: Typed copy of document 12988. The Symmeses have been delayed at the crossing of the Juniata because of the many vehicles to be ferried over. The roads are very bad because they had been cut up by army vehicles during the rainy season. The Symmeses saw...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1794 November 22]

14. [Document, 1794 November 22]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 22, 1794
  • Summary: Autograph Letter signed. The Symmeses have been delayed at the crossing of the Juniata because of the many vehicles to be ferried over. The roads are very bad because they had been cut up by army vehicles during the rainy season. The Symmeses saw Alex...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1794 November 24]

15. [Document, 1794 November 24]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 24, 1794
  • Summary: Typed copy of document 12989. Susan Symmes and her husband have travelled a long way over dreadful roads, and the hundred miles still to come are still worse, she hears. The mountains are called "Nobs here, but to be sure the Nobs are such mountains a...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1794 November 24]

16. [Document, 1794 November 24]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: November 24, 1794
  • Summary: Autograph Letter signed. Susan Symmes and her husband have travelled a long way over dreadful roads, and the hundred miles still to come are still worse, she hears. The mountains are called "Nobs here, but to be sure the Nobs are such mountains as you...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1796 March 03]

17. [Document, 1796 March 03]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: March 03, 1796
  • Summary: Typed copy. The inhabitants of the land in the Ohio Territory around the Symmes' are busy making maple sugar. It is "very pretty looking sugar, tho I can't be reconciled to the taste; we give from 15d. to a quarr. of a doll. pr. pd. according to its q...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1796 March 3]

18. [Document, 1796 March 3]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: March 3, 1796
  • Summary: Describes Ohio Territory and maple sugar camps that have sprung up there. In a postscript addressed to Maria Jay, describes the marriage of her stepdaughter to William Henry Harrison. Governor Symmes disapproved the match; Anthony Wayne helped arrange...
  • Number of Images: 4
[Document, 1798 July 14]

19. [Document, 1798 July 14]

  • Name: Symmes, Susan Livingston (Author) Jay, Sarah Livingston (Addressee)
  • Date: July 14, 1798
  • Summary: Will accept Sarah's invitation if she cannot come to Oakhill. Has opened a school and hopes Ann will attend. Family news.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1810 July 29]

20. [Document, 1810 July 29]