The polite and respectful terms in which you are pleased to communicate your approbation of our...
2From John Jay to the Earl of Dartmouth, 25 March 1773 (Jay Papers)
Tho a Stranger to your Lordship, I take the Liberty of troubling you with the inclosed Petition...
When our common Liberties are invaded, our dearest Rights in Danger, and a whole Continent loudly...
4From John Jay to John Tabor Kempe, 2 January 1772 (Jay Papers)
The Receipt of your Letter should have been acknowledged before had I not been out of Town when...
5From John Jay to John Tabor Kempe, 27 December 1771 (Jay Papers)
Your Doubts respecting Faulkners Declaration appear well founded, and the Remarks contained in...
6From John Jay to Benjamin Kissam, 12 August 1766 (Jay Papers)
To tell you that I often find myself at a loss for something to say, would be telling you nothing...
7From John Jay to Samuel Kissam, 1 March 1770 (Jay Papers)
The manner in which you tell your brother that you expected a letter from me contains a reproof...
8From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 2 April 1765 (Jay Papers)
After we parted last Saturday Evening I retired to my Room, and spent the remaining part of it in...
9From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 1 May 1765 (Jay Papers)
Studious to avoid every Suspicion that m[ torn ] ous to the good opinion which you say you [ torn...
10From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 4 March 1766 (Jay Papers)
I received Yours of the 1 st . March Yesterday. altho I did not suspect any Part of my Letter to...
11From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 1 January 1775 (Jay Papers)
Providence I confess has conferred Blessings upon me with a liberal hand and my days glide on...
12From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, 31 October 1765 (Jay Papers)
Never my Dear Friend have I been more at a Loss in answering a Letter than I now am, and never...
13From John Jay to Robert R. Livingston, January 1769 (Jay Papers)
The letter you mention to have wrote the week before last, has never come to Hand and I cant...
14From John Jay to Robert Randall, 3 February 1773 (Jay Papers)
Permit me to assure you, that you are exceedingly mistaken if you suppose me desirous of hushing...
15From John Jay to Robert Randall, 2 February 1773 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . and should have answered your Letter immediately, had I not found myself more...
16From John Jay to John Morin Scott, 22 June [20 July] 1774 (Jay Papers)
I was much surprised last Evening on being informed that in your speech of yesterday at the...
17From John Jay to John Vardill, 23 May 1774 (Jay Papers)
In a Town filled with Politics, and with a Mind crouded with many indigested Ideas, I have taken...
18From John Jay to John Vardill, 24 September 1774 (Jay Papers)
The Rec t . of your Letter (which M r Laight kindly forwarded to this Place) was exceedingly...
I John Jay of the City of New York Esqr. Clerk of the Commissioners lately appointed under the...
1 Each person, to be admitted, shall be able to give a rational account of the Latin & Greek...
21Address to the People of Great Britain, 21 October 1774 (Jay Papers)
To the people of Great-Britain, from the delegates appointed by the several English colonies of...
1 st None shall be admitted (unless by a particular Act of the Governors) but such as can read...
23The Rules and Members of the Moot Club, 23 November 1770 (Jay Papers)
The Subscribers being desirous of forming a club for social conversation & the mutual improv t ....
24Petition to the Earl of Dunmore, 12 June 1771 (Jay Papers)
To his Excellency the Right honourable John Earl of Dunmore Captain General and Governor in Chief...