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John Jay to Vergennes, 27 January 1780
[Cadiz 27 th . Jan y 1780] Sir It is with very sensible Pleasure that I commence a correspondence with a Minister of whose disposition and Abilities to promote the…
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John Jay to José de Gálvez, 27 January 1780
[Cadiz, 27 th Jan y 1780.] Sir: Permit me thro– your Excellency, to have the honour of representing to his most Catholic Majesty, that on the sixth Day of February…
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Instructions to William Carmichael, 27 January 1780
[Cadiz 27 Jan y 1780] Sir You will proceed to Madrid with convenient Expedition, and and if M r . Gerard with whom you set out should travel too very…
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John Jay to Arthur Lee, 26 January 1780
Cadiz 26 Jan 1780 1 Sir As a Knowledge of the Measures you may have taken ^ acquire ^ ^ taken ^ and the Information you may have gained relative…
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John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, January 26, 1780
Cadis 26 Jany 1780 Dear Sir You have doubtless been amused this month or two past with various Conjectures about the Fate of the Confederacy. She left Chester (on the…
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Gouverneur Morris to John Jay, 3 January 1780
Phila: 3 d Jan y . 1780. D r Jay. You will doubtless be glad to hear News from this Quarter. Your Friends are all well. Our Army are hutted…
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Committee for Foreign Affairs (James Lovell, Robert R. Livingston, and William Churchill Houston) to John Jay, 11 December 1779
Philad a . Dec r . 11 th . 1779 Sir By the inclosed Resolves of Congress 1 you will find that we are become more dependent upon your vigorous…
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John Jay to Seth Harding, 27 December 1779
Martinico S t Pierre–s, 27 Dec r 1779 Sir Your Favor of this T– day was just ^ this Moment ^ delivered ^ to me ^ by M r .…
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Seth Harding to John Jay, 27 December 1779
On Board Ship Confederacy Off Port Royal, Dec r : 27 th 1779. Sir, I arrived within about three Miles of this Harbor, about Eight O–Clock last Evening when we…
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John Jay to Benjamin Franklin, December 27, 1779
St. Pierre de la Martinique, Decmr. 27. 1779. Sir, Having on the 7th. of November last lost our Masts off the Banks of Newfound Land and been obliged to come…