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<h1>III. JOHN JAY: CONFEDERATION AND UNION, 1784-1789;
 STATE PAPER AND PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE</h1>
 INTRODUCTION: The National's Chief Diplomat
 I. HOMECOMING (25 July 1784)

1784
 July 25     to Thos Mifflin
 July 29     from Chas Thomson
 July 30     from RRL
 Aug 2     from Barbe-Marbois
 Oct 2     from NYC Mayor, Aldermen, commonalty (illustr Decl., gold box)
 [Oct 2]     to ibid.
 [Oct 4]     to ibid.

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Dec 4-11   NY-MA WESTERN LANDS DISPUTE
 Dec 4-11     Jas Duane; jrnl of proceedings
 Dec 5     from Lafayette
 Dec 5-[7 Dec]     from SLJ

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<h2>THE NATION'S CHIEF DIPLOMAT</h2>

This volume documents the writings and correspondence of John Jay covering the years during which the federal union was forged. It examines, through Jay's eyes and those of his contemp[-]oraries, the years when the nation suffered a sever postwar depression, a series of national humiliations abroad, and even armed resistance at home.

Through these formative years of nationhood, Jay proved not only a keen observer put a principal actor. He was responsible for the conduct of the nations foreign affairs, a major architect in formulating constitutional concepts that would imbue the federal government with energy, while at the same time he was not neglectful of what he considered the obligations entailed by the Americanization of his own church or in pressing the cause of the slave and the free black.

If John Jay imagined that, after successfully negotiating a Preliminary and then a Definitive Treaty with Great Britain, he could return to American to resume his law practice and devote a greater share of his time to his family circle, he was to be quickly disabused. On 24 July 1784 when Hay, his wife Sarah Livingston Jay, their two daughters and nephew returned to new York, Jay first learned that in his absence Congress had elected him Secretary for Foreign Affairs. That post he held until october 1789 when he took the oath as first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving simultaneously as Secretary of State ad

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<h2>JOHN JAY
 CONFEDERATION AND UNION, 1784-1789
 STATE PAPERS AND PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE</h2>

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1JA to James Warren, 30 June 1784, The Massachusetts Historical Society, Warren-Adams Letters, Being chiefly a correspond[-]ence among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren (2 vols., Boston, 1925), II, 240.

2JJ to TJ, 18 Aug. 1786, below, under editorial note, "Supporting a Strengthened Constitutional Structure."

3JJ to GW, 7 Jan. 1787, below, under ibid.

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4704/MHi: E. Know/ ALS 1p.       17 August 1784

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To BENJAMIN LINCOLN

New York, 17 August 1784

Sir,

I have just been honored with a Letter from General Know of the 29 Ultimo1 requesting to be informed "Whose map of the River St. Croix2 was used as an authority by the ministers who negociated the Peace" and desiring me to address my answer to You. This Letter arrived during my absence in the Country, from whence I returned the Day before Yesterday.

The Map which the Ministers used, and on which they schetched the Boundary Lines of the united States, was a large Map compiled by Mitchel;3 and if I remember right he lays down but one River of the name of St. Croix.

Although there may in fact be several Rivers of that name, yet as the only point which can be in question is, which of them was intended by the Treaty, I think the Matter may be easily decided by that Map, especially if it mentions but one River of that name, which I believe is the Case.4

I have the Honor to be with great Respect and Esteem, Sir, Your most obedient and very humble servant.

JOHN JAY
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<h1>REPORT TO CONGRESS</h1>

Office for foreign Affairs 3 January 1786

The Secretary of the United States for the Department of foreign Affairs to whom was referred a Letter of 4th November last from his Excellency the Governor of Massachusetts to the Delegates of that Commonwealth in Congress [illegible]

Reports

That this Letter states in Substance that divers Effects had by Orders of the British Commanders in Chief been taken from the Inhabitants, not as the Property of Enemies, but of Persons under their Protection, under the Idea that the former Ownership continued, and the greater Part of which was expressly engaged to be restored by those Commanders.

That the latter Clause in a British Act of Parliament passed the 29th November 1774 creates legal Impediments to those Owners recovering in due Course of Law the Value of their Effects so taken.

That considering the peculiar Circumstances of this Subject, the Spirit and real Intention of that Clause, the Times and general Purposes that produced it, the Legislature is induced to believe that if Congress would instruct their Minister at the Court of London to move this Subject, properly digested, to that Court, the Governments of that Nation would so far reconsider their former Doings on it, as to remove those Impediments, or make some other Provision, whereby Right and Justice shall be done to the Parties and Individuals more immediately concerned.

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Upon the whole Matter your Secretary is of Opinion, that Copies of these Papers should be transmitted to Mr. Adams; that he be instructed to sound the British Minister on the Subject, but not to bring forward any formal Demand or Representation on the Subject, unless from preceding Circumstances, he shall be induced to think, that it would have a favorable Issue; it being the Intention of Congress to refer the Time and Manner of doing it to his Prudence and Discretion.

All which is submitted to the Wisdom of Congress.

JOHN JAY

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