1From John Jay to John Adams, 3 January 1799 (Jay Papers)
I this morning laid before the Legislature of this State, your answer to their address: for the...
2From John Jay to Daniel Hale, 15 January 1799 (Jay Papers)
At the General Sessions of the peace held in and for the ^city and^ County of New York on the...
3From John Jay to James Morris, 18 January 1799 (Jay Papers)
It gives me pleasure to find by various and concurrent acc ts . from ^New^ York that your...
4From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 26 January 1799 (Jay Papers)
I this Day rec d . yours of the 22 d . Inst:— one of my late Letters contains a paragraph...
5From John Jay to Jedidiah Morse, 30 January 1799 (Jay Papers)
You will herewith recieve Copies of the acts of our two last Sessions. a variety of official and...
6Message to the New York State Senate, 18 February 1799 (Jay Papers)
Several of the productions and manufactures of this State are by law subjected to inspection. It...
7To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 16 March 1799 (Jay Papers)
I returned yesterday from Rye where & at Bedford I had been detained longer than I intended by...
8To John Jay from John Trumbull, 25 March 1799 (Jay Papers)
Since I wrote to you last on the 20 th . Sep tr : I have been honoured with your two Letters of...
9From John Jay to Benjamin Goodhue, 29 March 1799 (Jay Papers)
The Letters which you was so obliging as to write to me from Philad a ., have been rec d ., and...
According to William Jay, John Jay, himself a slaveowner but a longtime opponent of slavery,...
11Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, 29 March 1799 (Jay Papers)
AN ACT For the gradual Abolition of Slavery. BE it enacted, by the People of the State of...
12From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 12 April 1799 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 4 March —April was doubtless the month— From the Information it...
13From John Jay to Matthew Clarkson, 18 April 1799 (Jay Papers)
The enclosed is an extract from a letter which M r . King wrote to me on the 7 th . Day of dec r...
14To John Jay from Peter Augustus Jay, 3 May 1799 (Jay Papers)
Yesterday ended the best contested Election I ever remember to have seen in this City the...
15To John Jay from Joseph White, 20 May 1799 (Jay Papers)
I hold it not only proper but the duty of every independent Citizen when convinced from the most...
16To John Jay from John Trumbull, 3 June 1799 (Jay Papers)
I wrote to you on the 25 th . March last, since when I am not honored with any of your Favors....
17From John Jay to William Wilberforce, 3 September 1799 (Jay Papers)
It was not untill the last week that I had the pleasure of receiving your from M r Naylor your...
18From John Jay to Richard Peters, 11 September 1799 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with your’s of the 23 Ult: and have conversed fully with the Comptroller on...
19From John Jay to Matthew Clarkson, 13 September 1799 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . a Letter of the 6 th . Inst. from M r . C. Sands of Flatbush. After informing me...
20To John Jay from Matthew Clarkson, 23 September 1799 (Jay Papers)
I have rec d . your Letter of the 13 th . Inst. informing me of a Letter you had rec d . from M r...
21From John Jay to John Eliot, 8 October 1799 (Jay Papers)
On reading the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society for the Year 1798, which you...
22From John Jay to Isaac Tichenor, 21 October 1799 (Jay Papers)
I was informed by M r . Kelly shortly before his Death, and by other Gentlemen since, that the...
I feel myself gratified by the frank & friendly Letter of the 4 ult. w[hic] h . accompanied your...
24To John Jay from John Charlton, 19 December 1799 (Jay Papers)
with respect to the pamphlet on the efficacy of Olive Oil in pestilential diseases, which I had...
25New York Mourns the Death of Washington: Editorial Note (Jay Papers)
Reports of Washington’s passing first appeared in the New York City press on 19 December, five...
26To John Jay from Robert Troup, 23 December 1799 (Jay Papers)
On Tuesday last I wrote you a few lines informing you of the probability of General Washington’s...
27From John Jay to Robert Troup, 28 December 1799 (Jay Papers)
I have been fav d . with your’s of the 23 Inst: and with the one mentioned in it. The subject of...
28From John Jay to Peter Augustus Jay, 2 January 1800 (Jay Papers)
On Monday morning last, (being post Day) I recieved from the Post office some news papers, but no...
29To John Jay from Samuel Miller, 20 January 1800 (Jay Papers)
I do myself the honour to send You a copy of a discourse, which I lately delivered, on occasion...
30To John Jay from Henry Livingston, [before 25 January 1800] (Jay Papers)
Altho the Enormities perpetrated in the Manor of Livingston for a Series of six or seven Years...