TO JOHN JAY. (Private.) Paris, August 23, 1785. Dear Sir, I shall sometimes ask your permission to write you letters, not official, but private. The present is of this kind, and is occasioned by the question proposed in yours of June the 14th; ‘Whether it would be useful to us, to carry all our own…
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Moody’s Counter Proclamation
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Hue and Cry: Two Hundred Guineas Reward. Whereas a certain William Livingston, late an Attorney-at-Law, and now a lawless usurper and incorrigible rebel, stands convicted in the minds of all honest men, as well as in his own conscience,…