Letters from the Honorable John Jay Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Spain, 1779, Dec. 24 --1782, Nov. 14.

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Letters from the Honorable John Jay Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Spain, 1779, Dec. 24 --1782, Nov. 14.

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Official correspondence, chiefly dispatches to the Presidents of the Congress, and Robert Livingston and the Committee for Foreign Affairs, covering the negotiations with the Conde de Floridablanca and the French minister in Spain the Comte de Montmorin; Jay's negotiations with the Conde de Aranda in Paris, and the beginning of Anglo-American negotiations in Paris. A fair copy made, evidently, in the 1830s: the watermark is "S & AB" (Gravel & Miller American Watermarks, # 588, 1830 and 1839). Stationer's label: "Sold by Peter Burtsell & Son Stationers Corner of Wall and Broad Streets and the U.S. Bank New York." Contents: 1) "Letters from the Honorable John Jay Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Spain" 1779, Dec. 24 -- 1782, May 14 (pp.1-278); 2) "Letters from the Honorable John Jay Esq. the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States of America for negotiating a Peace with Great Britain." 1782, June 25 -- 1782, Nov. 14 (pp. 279-314.)

314 pages, 35 cm., bound volume.

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Jay, John, 1745-1829

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John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father, abolitionist, negotiator, and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States. He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and...