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The Selected Papers of John Jay 17601779
Author: John Jay

Few leaders of the new American nation had more influence than John Jay (1745--1829), or could match his accomplishments and contributions in all three branches of government, at both state and national levels. A leading representative of New York in the Continental Congress, Jay became one of t... more »he American commissioners who negotiated peace with Great Britain, securing independence for the former colonies. He served the new republic as secretary for foreign affairs under the Articles of Confederation, as a contributor to the Federalist Papers, as the first chief justice of the United States, as negotiator of the 1794 "Jay Treaty" with Great Britain, and as a two-term governor of the state of New York. In his personal life, Jay embraced a wide range of religious, social, and cultural concerns, including the abolition of slavery.This volume launches a new edition of selected correspondence of John Jay to be published in seven volumes at eighteen-month intervals. The work consists of a wide-ranging selection of the most significant and interesting public and private documents and letters, written or received by Jay, annotated and interspersed with commentary as needed. The edition is designed to revise and complete work begun in the late 1950s by Richard B. Morris, an eminent Jay scholar and Columbia University professor, who supplemented the major collection of original Jay Papers at Columbia with copies of Jay documents secured from archives throughout the world. Morris and his staff published two volumes covering the era of the American Revolution and began work on a projected two additional volumes before his untimely death. The new project is administered by the staff of Rare Books and Manuscript Room of Columbia University Libraries. The Selected Papers of John Jay, 1760-1779 begins with Jay's education and training as a socially elite, Anglican, King's College-educated lawyer. Although this path led most of his associates into Loyalism, it brought Jay, and such friends and correspondents as Robert R. Livingston, Gouverneur Morris, and Alexander Hamilton, into the front ranks of New York's moderate revolutionary leaders. Jay's marriage to Sarah (Sally) Van Brugh Livington in 1774 tied him to the influential Patriot family headed by William Livingston, and added to his crew of witty, articulate, and politically astute correspondents. Jay soon found himself a leader of New York's revolutionary committees and a delegate to the Continental Congress, where he sought reconciliation with Great Britain but promoted war preparedness, and applied his much-admired writing skills to drafting major congressional reports and addresses. With his state facing invasion, he returned to New York to help organize the new state government and to combat "plots, conspiracies, and chimeras dire" as a member of committees dealing with loyalty and security issues, including the one that unearthed the notorious Hickey Plot. He then helped to organize Hudson River defense and to draft the state constitution of 1777, and late in 1778 returned to Congress, where he supported New York's claims to the breakaway territory of Vermont and served as president until he was appointed the country's first minister to Spain in September 1779. The volume closes with John and Sally Jay's eventful voyage to Europe, with a brief layover at Martinique after their ship was dismasted and rendered virtually rudderless. Selected Papers of John Jay « less

ISBN-13: 9780813928043
ISBN-10: 0813928044
Publication Date: 3/4/2010
Pages: 904
Edition: annotated edition
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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Genres:
Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> Political
Biographies & Memoirs >> Professionals & Academics >> Lawyers & Judges
History >> Americas >> United States >> Colonial Period >> General
History >> Americas >> United States >> Revolution & Founding >> General

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