Select Bibliography

Collections of� Selected John Jay Correspondence

Jay, William. �The Life of John Jay: with Selections from his Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers.� 2 vols.�� New York, 1833.

Johnston, Henry P. Johnston, ed. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, 1763-1826.� 4 vols. �New York: G.P. Putnam, 1890-1893.

Morris, Richard B.� John Jay: The Making of a Revolutionary, 1745-1780. New York: Harper & Row, 1975

——. John Jay: The Winning of the Peace, 1780-1784. � New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Biographies

Johnson, Herbert A.� John Jay, 1745-1829. �Albany: N.Y. State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1970.� A brief but useful overview of Jay�s life.

——. John Jay, Colonial Lawyer.� New York: Garland, 1989. Jay�s pre-revolutionary career as a practicing attorney.

Frank Monaghan.�� John Jay: Defender of Liberty.� �New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1935.� The only full-scale modern biography of Jay that draws on Jay�s personal papers; after more than sixty years, however, badly outdated.

Morris, Richard B. Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny. �New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Jay is one of the seven Founding Fathers examined in this book.

Pellew, George. John Jay. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890.� A worthy but badly outdated biography.

New York Politics in� Jay�s Lifetime

Books:

Becker, Carl Becker. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776. Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1909.

Bonomi, Patricia U.�� A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York. �New York, 1971.

Countryman, Edward.�� A People In Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790. �Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981.

DePauw,� Linda.� The Eleventh Pillar: New York State and the Federal Constitution. �Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1966.

Fox, Dixon Ryan. The Decline of the Aristocracy in the Politics of New York. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1919.

Klein, Milton M. Klein, ed. The Empire State: A History of New York. �Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2001.� A survey with useful chapters on the period of Jay�s active political life by Ronald Howard and Edward Countryman.

Spaulding, E. Wilder. New York in the Critical Period, 1781-1789. �New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1932.

Young, Alfred F.� The Democratic Republicans of New York: The Origins, 1763-1797.� Chapel Hill: Univ. of N. C. Press, 1967.

Article:

Klein, Milton M. �John Jay and the Revolution.� New York History� 81(2000).: 19-30.�

Foreign Affairs During the Revolution and Confederation Period

Books:

Bemis, Samuel F. The Diplomacy of the American Revolution.� New York:� Appleton-Century Company, 1935.

—— . The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy.� Vol. I (Robert R. Livingston and John Jay).� New York: Knopf, 1928.

Burns, Michael M.� �John Jay as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, 1784-1789.�� Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of N.C., 1974.

Gruver, Rebecca G.� �The Diplomacy of John Jay.�� Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, 1966.

Kaplan, Lawrence S.� Colonies into Nation: American Diplomacy, 1763-1801. �New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Marks, Frederick W.� �Independence on Trial: Foreign Affairs and the Making of the Constitution. �Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1973.

Morris, Richard B. The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence. �New York: Harper & Row, 1965.

Ritcheson, Charles R. Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States, 1783-1795. �Dallas: Southern Methodist Univ. Press, 1969.

Articles:

Bowman, Albert H. �Jefferson, Hamilton and American Foreign Policy.�� Political Science Quarterly 71(1956): 18-41.

Boyd, Julian P. �Two Diplomats between Revolutions: John Jay and Thomas Jefferson.� Virginia Magazine of History and Biography�66 (1960): 131-146.

Jay, the Constitution, and �The Federalist�

Books:

Morris, Richard B.�� Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution.�� New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985.

Wills, Gary. Explaining America: The Federalist.� �Garden City: Doubleday, 1981.

Wood, Gordons. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. �Chapel Hill: Univ. of N.C. Press,� 1969.

Articles:

Blackmun, Harry A.� �John Jay and the Federalist Papers.�� Pace Law Review 8 (1988): 237-248.

Morris, Richard B.�� John Jay and the Adoption of the Federal Constitution in New York: A New Reading of Persons and Events.�� New York History� 63 (1982): 133-164.�

Ferguson, Robert A. �The Forgotten Publius: John Jay and the Aesthetics of Ratification.�� Early American Literature 34 (1999) 223-240.

Furtwangler,� Albert.�� Strategies of Candor in the Federalist.�� Early American Literature 14(1979): 91-109. �Kaminski, John P. �Shall we have a King? John Jay and the Politics of Union.�� New York History 81(20000):� 31-581

National Politics in the Federalist Era

Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism. �New York: Oxford, 1993.

Sharp, James R.�� American politics in the early republic: The new nation in crisis.� New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

The Early Supreme Court

Books:

Goebel, Julius, Jr.� Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801.� Vol. 1 of� History of the Supreme Court of the United States.�� New York:� Macmillan, 1971.

Casto, William.�� The Supreme Court in the Early Republic: the Chief Justiceships of John Jay and Oliver Ellsworth. �Columbia: Univ. of S.C. Press, 1995.

Marcus, Maeva , ed. The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800.� 7 vols. to date.� New York: Columbia University Press, 1985-.

Richard B. Morris. John Jay, the Nation and the Court. Boston: Boston Univ. Press, 1967.

Articles:

Durham, G. Homer.�� John Jay and the Judicial Power.��Brigham Young University Studies 16(1976):�� 349-361.

Frankel, Robert P., Jr. �The Supreme Court and the Supreme Court and Impartial Justice: The View from the 1790s.�� Journal of Supreme Court History� 1(1994) 103-116.

�Johnson, Herbert A. �John Jay and the� Supreme Court.�� New York History� 81(2000): 59-90

Sirvet, Ene and R. B. Bernstein.� �Documentary Editing and the Jay Court: Opening new Lines of Inquiry.� Journal of Supreme Court History� 2(1996): 17-22.�

——. �John Jay, Judicial Independence, and Advising Coordinate Branches.� Journal of Supreme Court History� 2(1996): 23-29��

VanBurkelo, Sandra Frances. "�Honour, Justice and Interest�:� John Jay�s Republican Politics and Statesmanship of the Federal Bench.��Journal of the Early Republic 4(1984): 239-274��

The Jay Treaty

Books:

Bemis, Samuel F.�� Jay's Treaty: A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy. 2^nd ed.�� New Haven: Yale, 1962.

Combs, Jerald A. The Jay Treaty: Political Battleground of the Founding Fathers. �Berkeley: University of California Press. 1970.

Article:

Estes, Todd. �Shaping the Politics of Public Opinion: Federalists and the Jay Treaty Debate.�� Journal of the Early Republic 20(2000): 393-422.�

The Jay Family and Social Reform: Religion and Slavery

Book:

Budney, Stephen Paul. "William Jay and the Influence of Federalist�� Antislavery."� Ph.D. Dissertation:� Univ. of Mississippi, 2000.

Articles:

Bonomi, Patricia U. �John Jay, Religion, and the State.� New York History 81(2000): 8-18.

Littlefield, Daniel C. "John Jay, the Revolutionary Generation, and Slavery." New York History� 81(2000): 91-132.

Trendel, Robert.�� John Jay II: Antislavery Conscience of the Episcopal Church.�� Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal�� Church� 45 (1976): 237-252.

Miscellany

Ide, John Jay.� The Portraits of John Jay (1745-1829).� New York: New-York Historical Society, 1938.�

McLean, Jennifer P.� The Jays of Bedford:� The Story of Five Generations of the Jay Family who lived in the John Jay Homestead. Katonah, N.Y.: Friends of the Jay Homestead, 1984.

Mary-Jo Kline, American History Specialist
John Hay and Rockefeller Libraries, Brown University
December 2002

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