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  • All gently yet, the hands urged him on,—the hands of young John Jay, that daring father's daring son; the hands of the good folk of Boston, that free city.†  (source)
  • When the bill which has since become the Constitution of the United States was submitted to the approval of the people, and the discussions were still pending, three men, who had already acquired a portion of that celebrity which they have since enjoyed—John Jay, Hamilton, and Madison—formed an association with the intention of explaining to the nation the advantages of the measure which was proposed.†  (source)
  • To John Jay he would claim it to be the first bearing of fruit of the American Revolution in Europe.†  (source)
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  • For Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Washington chose John Jay.†  (source)
  • No sooner was Jefferson named by Congress, in May 1784, to replace John Jay at Paris, than he was ready to go.†  (source)
  • John Jay of New York, the American minister to Spain, had been in Madrid for a year, and his mission had proven hopeless, as the Spanish Court had no interest in recognizing the independence of the United States.†  (source)
  • Instead, he was to be one of five commissioners, each representing a major section of the country—Adams for New England, Franklin for Pennsylvania, John Jay for New York, Jefferson for Virginia, and Henry Laurens for the Deep South.†  (source)
  • IN LATE SEPTEMBER, John Jay dispatched an urgent note to John Adams from Paris to report that the British emissary Richard Oswald had received a formal commission to treat with the United States on the matter of peace.†  (source)
  • Much had already transpired, as Adams learned from meetings with John Jay and a young American merchant named Matthew Ridley, whom Adams had met earlier in Holland and who, though he had no official role, seemed to know all that was going on.†  (source)
  • But when his American doctor, James Jay, the brother of John Jay, had suggested a sojourn in England, he had gone off to London with John Quincy and later to Bath, to take the waters, an experience Adams had found little to his liking and that was cut short by a summons to return to Holland to secure still another desperately needed loan.†  (source)
  • "The King listened to every word I said, with dignity but with apparent emotion," Adams would report to Foreign Secretary John Jay.†  (source)
  • Compared to such demands, the sum Congress had authorized them to spend was, as they reported to John Jay, "but a drop in the bucket."†  (source)
  • Within weeks after the first copies of his Defence were ready at the printer, he had written to John Jay to ask that he be recalled.†  (source)
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