601From John Jay to George Clinton, 18 August 1779 (Jay Papers)
I send you two Sets of the Journals of Congress—two acts of the Legislature of Virg a . one for...
602From John Jay to George Washington, 25 August 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Pleasure of recieving your Favor of the 16 th . Instant. Britain refused the...
603From John Jay to George Clinton, 27 August 1779 (Jay Papers)
If New York and New Hampshire by mutual Acts of their respective Legislatures will authorize...
In governments raised on the generous principles of equal liberty, where the rulers of the state...
605From John Jay to George Clinton, 16 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor by M r . Phelps has arrived— I approve much of your Resolutions respecting Vermont— It...
606From John Jay to Frederick Jay, 16 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
Your obliging Letter with the Parcel of Tobacco—which came with it arrived Yesterday— I am now to...
607From John Jay to Alexander Hamilton, 18 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
Your favors of the 25, 26, & 30 July last ^ & 12 Inst ^ have lain by me thus long ^ unnoticed...
608From John Jay to Edmund Pendleton, 21 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
This morning I had Yesterday the Pleasure of rec g your Favor of the 8 th : Inst and am happy to...
609From John Jay to George Clinton, 25 September 1779, enclosing Resolutions of the Continental Congress (Jay Papers)
Whether the Resolutions of Congress ^ herewith enclosed of the 24th Inst. ^ ^ herewith enclosed ^...
610From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 26 September 1779 (Jay Papers)
I have had the Pleasure of rec g your Favor of the 2 d . June last. The Act of Congress...
I address this Letter to you both because I have not time by this opportunity to write to each...
It gives me very sensible pleasure to find, from the Act of Congress inclosed in your...
613From John Jay to George Clinton, 5 October 1779, enclosing Draft Act on Vermont, 24 September–5 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
In a Conference with ^ some of ^ the Delegates of New Hampshire and Massachusets Bay it was...
614From John Jay to James Duane, 14 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
Your obliging Favor by M r . Phelps it has remained thus long unanswered, because till to very...
615From John Jay to George Washington, 14 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
Your very kind letter of of the 7 th Instant gave me all that Pleasure, which accompanies marks...
616From John Jay to George Clinton, 25 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
Be pleased to keep the Letters herewith enclosed, until good opportunities of sending them offer—...
617From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 25 October 1779 (Jay Papers)
Accept my Thanks for your very friendly Letter— It recalled to my Mind many Circumstances on...
618From John Jay to Seth Harding, 26 November 1779, enclosing Minutes of the Council of Commissioned Officers of the … (Jay Papers)
As Mr. Gerard declines giving any Opinion or direction On the subject of the within Report of a...
My former Letters to your Excellency of the 20 th . and 22d. Instant (a triplicate of the former...
620From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 24 December 1779 (Jay Papers)
My Letters from S t . Pierre a few Days ago will inform you of the Misfortunes that drove us...
I have done what, perhaps, I shall be blamed for—but my pride as an American, and my feelings as...
On our arrival here M. Gerard told me that he was about to write to the governor and admiral at...
623From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 27 December 1779 (Jay Papers)
Having on the 7 th . of November last lost our Masts off the Banks of New found Land and been...
624From John Jay to Seth Harding, 27 December 1779 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of this T’ day was just ^ this Moment ^ delivered ^ to me ^ by M r . Lawrence. I am...
625From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 26 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
You have doubtless been amused this month or two past with various conjectures about the Fate of...
626From John Jay to Arthur Lee, 26 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
As a Knowledge of the Measures you may have taken ^ acquire ^ ^ taken ^ and the Information you...
627Instructions to William Carmichael, 27 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
You will proceed to Madrid with convenient Expedition, and and if M r . Gerard with whom you set...
628From John Jay to José de Gálvez, 27 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
Permit me thro’ your Excellency, to have the honour of representing to his most Catholic Majesty,...
629From John Jay to Vergennes, 27 January 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is with very sensible Pleasure that I commence a correspondence with a Minister of whose...
630From John Jay to Philip Schuyler, 19 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
Altho my Correspondents have necessarily become numerous I shall nevertheless think the number...
631From John Jay to William Carmichael, 21 February 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your favor of the 15 th Inst, was delivered to me last Evening. I congratulate you on your safe...
Agreeable to my Promise to the Marquis De la flotte, I must inform your Excellency that a...
Captain Morgan’s being still here, waiting for a fair wind gives me an opportunity of...
634From John Jay to Floridablanca, 6 March 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have been honored with your Excellency’s favor of the 24 th . Ult., which did not come to my...
635From John Jay to Montmorin, 11 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r Jay presents his Compliments to his Excellency Count Montmorin, and informs him that S r ....
636From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 14 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
On the 26 th . Jan y . last at Cadiz, I did myself the Honor of writing to your Excellency a...
637From John Jay to Floridablanca, 25 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r . Carmichael has delivered to me a Paper he had the Honor of recieving from Your Excellency...
638From John Jay to John Adams, 26 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
I have at Length had the Pleasure of recieving your very friendly Letter of the 22 d . Feb y...
639From John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, 27 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
Your Favor of the 7 th . Inst. & ^ together with ^ ^ a ^ Duplicate of that of the 22 d Feb y last...
640From John Jay to Floridablanca, 29 April 1780 (Jay Papers)
By the address of Congress to their Constituents, on the Subject of their Finances, which I had...
641From John Jay to Vergennes, 9 May 1780 (Jay Papers)
The Letter which your Excellency did me the Honor to write on the 13 th . March last, was...
642Notes on John Jay’s Conference with Floridablanca, 11 May 1780 (Jay Papers)
M r . Jay having waited on the Count D’Florida Blanca in Consequence of a Message received on the...
643From John Jay to Floridablanca, 12 May 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is with the utmost Reluctance that I can prevail upon myself, to draw your Excellency’s...
644From John Jay to Margaret Cadwalader Meredith, 12 May 1780 (Jay Papers)
It is a delightful Evening, and I am just returned from a long solitary walk to pay my Respects...
645From John Jay to Peter Jay, 23 May 1780 (Jay Papers)
[ illegible passage ] Various have been the Scenes thro which I have passed since we parted last...
646From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 23 May 1780 (Jay Papers)
Accept my Thanks, and cordial ones they are, for your friendly Letter of the 22 d . Dec r . last,...
Since my Departure from America I have had the Honor of writing the following Letters to your...
648From John Jay to John Adams, 4 June 1780 (Jay Papers)
There is a Distinction between Ceremony & Attention which is not always observed tho often...
649From John Jay to Floridablanca, 9 June 1780 (Jay Papers)
The propositions which your Excellency did me the favor to send me on the 7 th . ins t . have...
650From John Jay to William Carmichael, 16–17 June 1780 (Jay Papers)
On coming to this Place last M ^ my Arrival here I unexpectedly ^ found that M rs . Jay had been...