1To John Jay from Anne Conyngham, 17 July 1779 (Jay Papers)
I beg leave to trouble your Excellency and the Honorable Congress, with the perusal of the inclosed letter from my Husband, Cap t . Gustavus Conyngham, late Commador of the Cutter Revenge, now a Prisoner and in Irons on board a British Packet, bound to England. As these Extraordinary and in the present Stage of the War between Britain and America, Singular Cruelties exercised upon the Person...