John Jay papers, 1664-1820.

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John Jay papers, 1664-1820.

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Papers, 1664-ca. 1820, accumulated by John Jay in the course of his activities as a diplomat, lawyer, public official, philanthropist, and resident of New York. Included are: a manuscript entitled "History of the American Revolution commencing with the settlement of the American Colonies and coming down to Nov. 8, 1775," marked as chapters I through VI, and bearing the notation "found among the papers of Gov. William Livingston"; official dispatches and other papers connected with negotiations in Spain and France during 1780-1782; instructions and official despatches to Jay in 1794, including papers connected with the negotiation of the British treaty, and proceedings against the British sloop-of-war Hunter, at New York in 1797; a report by Richard Bayley on yellow fever in New York City, 1796; Hendrick Remsen vs. the Corporation of the City of New York; papers relating to the Nine Partners Tract in 1749; affairs of the Corporation of Trinity Church in the early eighteenth century; papers relating to New York Hospital, the Society for the Suppression of Vice, the Humane Society, and th Society for Meliorating the Conditions of the Poor; papers relating to the British Mint, ca. 1791-1794; papers from the case of John Schenck vs. William Lupardus, ca. 1740; bills of costs (legal); New York and New Jersey boundary papers, ca. 1769; and other miscellaneous material.

3.2 linear feet (8 boxes)

New-York Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7771104

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