The papers of John Jay

Name: Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1780 June 30
Summary: Thanking John Jay for interceding and straightening out the problem of Staphorsts' business representation of United States.
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Name: Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author) Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1785 November 24
Summary: Letter explaining the rupture of negotiations with John Adams, and requesting reinstatement.(With copies of "Mr. Adams's Note of 30 April 1782" and "Debtors. The United States of America their Account Current with Nics. & Jacob...
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Name: Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author) Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 (Addressee) Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Livingston, Walter, 1740-1797 (Addressee)
Date: November 24, 1785
Summary: Acknowledge receipt of a letter dated Board of Treasury of the United States, New York, 23 September 1785, directing them to deliver undistributed bonds and pay balance due on United States bonds to Messrs. Wilhem & Jan Willink against their receipts....
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Name: Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author)
Date: November 24, 1785
Summary: A letter from Walter Livingston and Arthur Lee "of so extraordinary and unexpected a Nature & altogether informal" has prompted the Staphorsts to appeal to John Jay's sense of justice. The Staphorsts, who were never informed in any way of Lee's appoin...
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Name: Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author)
Date: June 30, 1786
Summary: Acknowledge receipt of [29?] April, which has removed all difficulties between the House of Staphorst and the Board of Treasury. The letter has also removed the necessity of sending a more formal notice of the appointment of Arthur Lee as Commissioner...
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Name: Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Willink, Wilhem (Author) Willink, Jan (Author) Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee)
Date: 1787 June 30
Summary: Business affairs re loan.
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Name: Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Willink, Wilhem (Author) Willink, Jan (Author) Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author)
Date: June 30, 1787
Summary: Enclose a copy of a letter received from John Adams and the obligation of the negotiation for one million guilders opened in Holland. These should be returned as soon as the negotiation is ratified by Congress. Although it is a disappointment that not...
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Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Griffin, Cyrus, 1748-1810 (Addressee) Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author)
Date: August 12, 1788
Summary: Jay's Letter signed version of the covering letter enclosing the original of the Van Staphorsts' letter of 2 June. See document 2304.
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Name: Van Staphorst, Nicholaas (Author) Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Addressee) Van Staphorst, Jacob (Author)
Date: June 02, 1788
Summary: In order to convince Dutch moneylenders of the stability of the United States government and the regularity of its financial dealings, Nicholas & Jacob van Staphorst tried in vain to obtain a copy of the Proceedings of the Continental Congress through...
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