1To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 23 November 1791 (Jay Papers)
I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the 12 th . Inst t . last Saturday. Essex desires me to tell you that he answered your letter to him the next post to that by which I wrote. I go frequently to visit Uncle Fady, & shall continue to pay him every mark of attention, & respect in my power. Agreable to your advice I have read the life of Cicero attentively. I am not able to point out...
2To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 24 October 1797 (Jay Papers)
On Saturday Cæsar put on board Capt Hanson’s Sloop several Articles which Mama requested me to send viz a Jug of Oil, the Racks for the Spit a Box of Rush-lights & the Safe— in the latter was a Bag containing Salt Petre Isinglass &c and also a small Pot of Ointment for you which Doctor Charlton had given me a day or two before,— The enclosed Letter accompanied it, but I thought it would go...
3To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 26 November 1797 (Jay Papers)
I have been amused for a week past with daily promisses by the Agents of two Furnaces respecting the Stove you wrote for, there being none of that Kind to be had ready made— As I am informed the River is closed for a Distance below Albany, and as from the weather it is doubtful whether it will again be open I do not think it will be prudent to wait any longer— You had better therefore provide...
4To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 15 April 1798 (Jay Papers)
I had the pleasure of rec g : your Letters of the 6th, 7th, & 9th. inst on Friday, & another which accompanied the Pardon for M r . Meeks’s Man yesterday— I shall immediately attend to the different directions contained in them— Most of the Prints are already very neatly boxed; the Cases containing Copies of the U. S. Laws I have put on board Bleeckers Sloop (the same in which Maria came down)...
5To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 19 April 1798 (Jay Papers)
I yesterday rec d . your Letter of the 16th inst: & the Bundle which accompanied it— The latter shall be sent to Rye by the Boat— I am almost sorry you intend to dispose of the Coach, & should prefer parting with the Chariot which in a few years more will be unfit for use, or at any Rate a constant Bill of Cost— Besides that the former will probably sell for much less than its Value— I shall...
6To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 26 April 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have this Afternoon put on board Capt Lansings Sloop 15 Barrels of Wine, 1 Case of Flasks with d o Nine Boxes of Prints & Pictures & small Articles of Glass & China & one small black trunk— I have sent you all the wine except two Barrels whose hoops appeared too insecure to be trusted— I will send you a List of the Contents in a Letter by Capt. Lansing— I have just returned from the Society...
7To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 6 May 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have at length compleated the evacuation of the Gov t . House & taken Possession of my Rooms at M rs . Wests from whence I now write— The Trouble of moving which was much greater than I expected to find it, prevented my writing during the last week. I sent you a number of Articles by Capt: Dusenberry, all those that remain are at M r . Munro’s, who has had one of his unfinished rooms floored...
8To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 13 May 1798 (Jay Papers)
It is now some time since I had the pleasure of hearing from you— this I attribute to your having been at Schenectady where I perceive by the Papers you was present at the Commencement— M r . Seth Marvin some time ago applied to me to purchase your Share of Lot N o . 18 in Cheesecocks Patent (containing as he says 195 Acres) for which he offered 24/pr. Acre, but it appeared during our...
9To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 1 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
I am happy to learn from the Newspapers that you have safely arrived at Albany— I am sorry however that the fatigue of your Journey must too soon be succeeded by the still more unpleasant fatigue of the approaching session of the Legislature— I am told by M r . Ten Broeck that the Democratic Party have a Majority of four in the lower House, & of Course that the next Council of Appointment will...
10To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 1 August 1798 (Jay Papers)
I have already written to you by this Mornings Post since then, I have met Gosman the Mason in the Street who told me that he had been sent for by M r . Church to make another Vault under the Street before the front Door or else to inlarge the old one. I thanked him for the Information & told him that if the thing was to be done at all it must be on M r . Church’s Credit & not yours, but that...