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[Document, 1771 June 24]

21. [Document, 1771 June 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Handin, Michael (Addressee) Jones, William (Author)
  • Date: June 24, 1771
  • Summary: Autograph draft. Plea in Mayor's Court in Jay's hand. Jay appears as counsel for Michael Handin, the defendant. Plea is defense based on defendant's infancy at the time he assumed to pay the debt upon which plaintiff brings suit. Two page manuscript a...
  • Number of Images: 3
[Document, 1771 May n.d. - ...

22. [Document, 1771 May n.d. - 1787 December 12]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813 (Author)
  • Date: May, 1771 - December 12, 1787
  • Summary: List of causes and fees due to Clerk of Dutchess County, May 1771. With notation by Robert H. Livingston recording a partial payment of 10 pounds made by Jay on December 12, 1787.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1771 September 02]

23. [Document, 1771 September 02]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Johnson, John (Addressee)
  • Date: September 02, 1771
  • Summary: Rendered to Jay by John Johnson, the account was paid in full on March 10, 1772.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1772 January 02]

24. [Document, 1772 January 02]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Kempe, John Tabor (Addressee)
  • Date: January 02, 1772
  • Summary: Jay suggests that Kempe is withholding information from him because of a supposed defect in constitution or inaccuracy in mode of expression and think she has fixed his resentment on objects too trifling to merit serious consideration. If a gentleman'...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1772 March 23]

25. [Document, 1772 March 23]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Yates, Peter W. (Peter Waldron), 1747-1826 (Addressee)
  • Date: March 23, 1772
  • Summary: Little political trouble in the assembly this session. Papers written against the majority occasioned little noise or opposition. Noyelles made much talk and he was anonymously accused of several petty crimes. The House inquired into the matter and he...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1772 October 17 ...

26. [Document, 1772 October 17 - 1774 July n.d.]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) New York (State). Supreme Court (Author)
  • Date: 1772 October 17 - 1774 July n.d.
  • Summary: Notebook entries in Jay's hand. Calendar of cases in the New York Supreme Court, October 17, 1772-July 1774. List of cases and the type of action. Payments are listed as made to John Jay on pages 3 and 6. Frederick Jay entered an action for the amount...
  • Number of Images: 181
[Document, 1773 February 02]

27. [Document, 1773 February 02]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Randall, Robert (Addressee)
  • Date: February 02, 1773
  • Summary: Delayed answer to Randall's letter because too upset. Surprised at the other's resentment; as a manager or official of the club, his objection to Randall's admission was not personal, but rather social. Believed that Randall did not have close connect...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1773 February 03]

28. [Document, 1773 February 03]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Randall, Robert (Addressee)
  • Date: February 03, 1773
  • Summary: Assures Randall that he does not want to "hush up the matter" but acts in accordance with his principles. As both had agreed to put the matter before the judgment of other men Jay did not realize Randall expected a written response. Is willing to meet...
  • Number of Images: 1
Document, 1773 February 06

29. Document, 1773 February 06

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: 1773 February 06
  • Summary: Certifies as Clerk of the Commissioners for determining the boundary between New York and New Jersey, that the proceedings of the Commission contained in the book being sent are complete and true. Also certifies that all but on...
  • Number of Images: 0
[Document, 1773 February 17]

30. [Document, 1773 February 17]

[Document, 1773 June 30]

31. [Document, 1773 June 30]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: June 30, 1773
  • Summary: Autograph Document signed by Jay. Abstract of title to a lot in New York City, with Jay's statement that he has searched the deeds, and is of the opinion that the present owner, Edward Seaman, has good title to the lot her purchased from Augustus Van ...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1773 March 25]

32. [Document, 1773 March 25]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Earl of Dartmouth (Addressee)
  • Date: March 25, 1773
  • Summary: Submits petition of inhabitants of New Britain. Complains of "prevailing monopoly of lands in this Colony" and "mercenary land-jobbers." Accompanying petition from New Britain filed separately under same date as UkLPR: 11374.
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1774 April 19]

33. [Document, 1774 April 19]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: April 19, 1774
  • Summary: Jay's draft declaration to be signed by the heirs of Anne Chambers attesting to the division of her silver plate among them. Separate declarations to be signed by Jay's father, Peter Jay, , the children of Margaret DePeyster, and Eve White. Evaluation...
  • Number of Images: 3
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34. [Document, 1774 April n.d. - 1786 May 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Bayard, Samuel (Addressee)
  • Date: April, 1774 - May 24, 1786
  • Summary: New York Supreme Court clerk's accounts with Jay for April 1774-April 1776; with 24 May 1786 receipt from Bayard to Jay for Jay's full payment of his balance due, 34 pounds, 5 shillings..
  • Number of Images: 7
[Document, 1774 July 04]

35. [Document, 1774 July 04]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: July 04, 1774
  • Summary: A broadside by the New York Committee of Correspondence giving the names of five delegates nominated to go to the General Congress at Philadelphia: Philip Livingston, James Duane, John Alsop, John Jay, and Isaac Low. The inhabitants were asked to appr...
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1774 July 20]

36. [Document, 1774 July 20]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Scott, John Morin, 1730-1784 (Addressee)
  • Date: July 20, 1774
  • Summary: Jay expresses surprise at Scott's speech at the Coffee House, says he was one of the Committee when the Resolves were formed and thus interested in the reasons by which Scott can justify holding the committee up to public view in an unfavorable light....
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1774 May 23]

37. [Document, 1774 May 23]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Vardell (Addressee)
  • Date: May 23, 1774
  • Summary: Cannot accept an office unless it is remunerative. The position he suggested, that is as legal adviser to the judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, has not become available because the DeLancey party in the Assembly has opposed the proposal. None of t...
  • Number of Images: 2
[Document, 1774 n.d. - 1776...

38. [Document, 1774 n.d. - 1776 n.d.]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Jay, Peter (Author)
  • Date: 1774 n.d. - 1776 n.d.
  • Summary: Ledger, 1774-1776, with many entries in John Jay's hand, preceded by a handwritten index in Jay's hand. Accounts of Jay, his father, and his sister Eve Jay Munro. Mrs. Munro's accounts are on three separate sheets; pages at the end of the account book...
  • Number of Images: 134
[Document, 1774 October 01]

39. [Document, 1774 October 01]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author)
  • Date: October 01, 1774
  • Summary: Notes on his appointments to committees, with reference to pages in the printed Journals.
  • Number of Images: 1
[Document, 1774 September 24]

40. [Document, 1774 September 24]

  • Name: Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Author) Vardell (Addressee)
  • Date: September 24, 1774
  • Summary: Although secrecy prevents his commenting upon the proceedings of Congress, he states that many people are aroused by the Boston and Canada bills, and he does not know how the matter will end. Hopes for a permanent union with Britain.
  • Number of Images: 2