Sir James Jay papers, 1760-1930, bulk 1762-1774

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Series I: Sir James Jay papers, 1760-1930



Box 1 King's College Governors to [Philip] Bearcroft (draft), [1760 February]


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor et al. to the Governors of King's College (also signed by Samuel Johnson, John Watts, Samuel Auchmuty, and James Duane, who made up the Committee of Correspondence), 1762 April 15

Report of the Committee authorizing Sir Hames Jay to raise funds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to the University of Oxford (copy), 1762 May 14

Introducing Sir James Jay, who will be raising founds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to Thomas [Secker], Archbishop of Canterbury (copy), 1762 May 14

Introducing Sir James Jay et al., who will be raising founds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts ... (copy), 1762 May 14

Introducing Sir James Jay et al., who will be raising founds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to the Royal Society [London] (copy), 1762 May 14

Introducing Sir James Jay et al., who will be raising founds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to the Antiquary Society [London] (copy), 1762 May 14

Introducing Sir James Jay et al., who will be raising founds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to Cambridge University (copy), 1762 May 14

Introducing Sir James Jay et al., who will be raising founds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to all Patrons of Learning ... (draft of circular letter, with a printed copy), 1762 May 14

Introducing Sir James Jay et al., who will be raising founds for King's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to Sandys, Samuel, 1st Baron Sandys (copy), 1762 May 14


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to the [Governors of King's College], 1762 August 9

Re: his fundraising for King's College


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to the [Governors of King's College], 1762 August 11

Re: his fundraising for King's College


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to the Governors of [King's] College (addressed to [Henry] Barclay), 1762 August 17

Re: his fundraising for King's College


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to the [Governors of King's College], 1762 [October] 5

Re: his fundraising for King's College


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor to the Governors of King's College (enclosing report below), 1762 November 16

Kempe, John Tabor. Instructions for Dr. Jay. Authorizing Sir James Jay to raise funds for King's College. [1762 November]


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to the Governors of [King's] College, 1763 April 19

Re: his fundraising efforts


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to the Governors of King's College, 1763 May 10

Re: his fundraising efforts


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor to the [Governors of King's College] (written for the Committee of Correspondence and enclosing the letter below), 1763 November 1

Kempe, John Tabor to Sir James Jay, 1763 October 26 (draft)


Box 1 King's College Governors to Messrs Drummond & Company (draft), 1763 November 21

Drawing on the funds raised by Sir James Jay


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James (account with King's College, draft), [1764]


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James (account with King's College), [1764]


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to [Samuel] Auchmuty, 1764 April 7

Re: his financial dispute with King's College


Box 1 Drummond, Andrew, & Co. to the Governors of King's College, circa 1765 March

Re: the financial dispute with Sir James Jay


Box 1 George III (copy of the King's mandamus granting 20,000 acres in New York to King's College at the petition of Sir James Jay; signed by W. Sharpe), 1765 March 29


Box 1 Jay, Peter to Samuel Auchmuty, 1765 April 15

Re: the dispute between Sir James Jay and KIng's College


Box 1 Jay, Peter to Samuel Auchmuty, 1765 April 16

Re: the dispute between Sir James Jay and KIng's College


Box 1 King's College Governors to Barlow Trecothick, [1765 May]

Re: the financial dispute with Sir James Jay


Box 1 King's College Governors to [Barlow Trecothick] (draft), [1765 May]

Re: the lawsuit brought by King's College against Sir James Jay


Box 1 [King's College Governors] (power of attorney to Barlow Trecothick to resolve the dispute with Sir James Jay, in the hand of Lambert Moore and with his signature), 1765 May 4


Box 1 [Kempe, John Tabor] to the Governors of King's College (draft, written for the Committee of Correspondence), 1765 May 14

Re: the dispute between Sir James Jay and King's College


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor to the Governors of King's College (written for the Committee of Correspondence), 1765 May 14

Re: the dispute between Sir James Jay and King's College


Box 1 Trecothick, Barlow to the [Governors of King's College], 1765 September 14

Re: the financial dispute between King's College and Sir James Jay


Box 1 [King's College Governors] to [Barlow Trecothick] (in the hand of John Tabor Kempe), 1765 December 18

Re: the financial dispute with Sir James Jay


Box 1 Moore, Lambert to Daniel Horsmanden (copy), 1766 November 20

The Governors of King's College appoint a Committee of Correspondence to settle the dispute with Sir James Jay.


Box 1 Trecothick, Barlow to William Bayard (copy), 1766 December 11

Re: the lawsuit between King's College and Sir James Jay


Box 1 Hicks, Whitehead (affidavit of John Watts, John Tabor Kempe, Samuel Auchmuty, and James Duane re: the report of Sir James Jay's proposal; draft copy), 1767 February


Box 1 Hicks, Whitehead (affidavit of John Watts, John Tabor Kempe, Samuel Auchmuty, and James Duane re: the report of Sir James Jay's proposal; draft copy with an a.n.s. added by Auchmuty), 1767 February


Box 1 Hicks, Whitehead (affidavit of John Watts, John Tabor Kempe, Samuel Auchmuty, and James Duane re: the report of Sir James Jay's proposal; draft copy), 1767 February


Box 1 King's College Govenors to Barlow Trecothick (draft, to be signed by John Tabor Kempe, John Watts, Samuel Auchmuty, John Livingston, Myles Cooper and James Duane), 1767 February 10


Box 1 King's College Governors to William Samuel Johnson (draft, to be signed by John Tabor Kempe, John Watts, Samuel Auchmuty, John Livingston, Myles Cooper and James Duane), 1767 February 22


Box 1 King's College Governors to Barlow Trecothick (draft, to be signed by John Tabor Kempe, John Watts, Samuel Auchmuty, John Livingston, Myles Cooper and James Duane), 1767 February 23

Re: the lawsuit brought by King's College against Sir James Jay


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor, et al. to the Governors of King's College (also signed by Samuel Auchmuty, John Livingston, Myles Cooper, James Duane, and John Watts, all of whom for the Committee of Correspondence to resolve the dispute with Sir James Jay), 1767 February 26


Box 1 Smith, William to John Tabor Kempe, 1767 December 27

Re: the financial dispute between King's College and Sir James Jay


Box 1 Johnson, William Samuel to the [Governors of King's College] (copy, in his hand, of lost letter), 1768 January 9

To the [Governors of King's College] 1768 July 25. Re: Sir James Jay's dispute with King's College


Box 1 Johnson, Samuel to [Myles] Cooper (copy, attested to by Lambert Moore and Isaac Ryckman, Jr.), 1768 November 24

Re: his recollection of the fund-raising arrangements with Sir James Jay


Box 1 [King's College Governors] to Barlow Trecothick., 1769 March 22

Re: the financial dispute with Sir James Jay


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor, et al. to William Samuel Johnson (written for the Committee of Correspondence, also signed by Myles Cooper, John Livingston, John Watts, and James Duane), 1769 March 22

Re: the financial dispute with Sir James Jay


Box 1 [King's College Governors] to [William] Samuel Johnson (draft in the hand of Myles Cooper), 1769 March 22

Re: the financial dispute with Sir James Jay


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor to John Watts (written in the third person), [1769 December]

Watts, John to the [Committee on Correspondence] (in the third person, added to the letter above, also signed by James Duane, John Livingston, and Samuel Auchmuty), [1769 December]


Box 1 Duane, James to [William Samuel] Johnson (draft), 1769 December 4

Re: the financial dispute between King's College and Sir James Jay


Box 1 Kempe, John Tabor to Barlow Trecothick (written for the Committee on Correspondence of King's College), 1769 December 9

Re: the financial dispute with Sir James Jay


Box 1 Trecothick, Barlow to the Governors of King's College, 1770 August 14

Enclosing Sir James Jay's answer in the financial dispute with King's College


Box 1 Johnson, William Samuel to James Duane, 1771 March 30

Mentions Sir James Jay's dispute with King's College


Box 1 Holker, Samuel to [William] Samuel Johnson, 1771 July 24

Re: the lawsuit between King's College and Sir James Jay


Box 1 Auchmuty, Samuel to James Duane, 1771 August 2

Re: the lawsuit brought by King's College against Sir James Jay


Box 1 [Jay, (Sir) James] Statement on his financial dispute with King's College, [1773]

Sir James proposed that the College publish this statement but was refused.


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James to the Governors of King's College, 1773 February 1

Re: the disputed £4,000 raised for King's College


Box 1 Verplack, Samuel, et al. (Committee report resolving the financial dispute between King's College and Sir James Jay; also signed by Myles Cooper, Whitehead Hicks, Charles Inglis, Thomas Jones, G. Banyar, and William Walton), 1773 March 5


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James (releasing the Governors of King's College from all claims; also signed by Lambert Moore and Robert Hull, and bearing the seal of Sir James Jay), 1773 May 4


Box 1 Jay, (Sir) James (releasing Barlow Trecothick from all claims, also signed by Lambert Moore and Robert Hull), 1773 July 1

Also bearing Sir James Jay's seal


Box 1 [King's College Governors] (power of attorney to Thomas Maunsel, authorizing him to raise funds for King's College), [1774 May]


Photostats relating to Sir James Jay and the Governors of King's College secured from the Public Record Office, London, 1930 March



Flatbox Jay To the Right Honorable Charles Lord Camden, Baron of Camden Place in the County of Kent, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Humbly complaining shew unto Your Lordship Your Orators, the Corporation of the Governors of the College of the Province of New York …, 1766 November 21

C12 855/19 A (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Sir James Jay, knight, Defendant to the Bill of Complaint of the Corporation and the Governors of the College of the Province of New York…, 1767 May 6

C12 855/19 B (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of above. Signed: James Jay., 1767 May 6

C12 855/19 C (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay To the Right Honourable Charles Lord Camden … Lord High Chancellor of Britain - Humbly complaining sheweth unto Your Lordship your Orator Sir James Jay of Pall Mall in the Parish of St. James Westminster, Doctor in Physic…, 1767 November 16

C12 1310/13 A (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1767 November 16

C12 1310/13 B (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1767 November 16

C12 1310/13 C (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1767 November 16

C12 1310/13 D (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1767 November 16

C12 1310/13 E (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay The Answer of Barlow Trecothick, esquire, one of the Defendants to the Bill of Complaints of Sir James Jay, knight, Dr. of Physic, complainant…, 1768 August 19

C12 1310/13 F (25 pieces)


Flatbox Jay The Answer of the Governors of the College of the Province of New York in the City of New York in America Defendants to the Bill of Complaint of Sir James Jay, knight…, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 A (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 B (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 C (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 D (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay A schedule containing time and exact copies of all the Minutes, Orders, Reports, Letters and Papers referred to in the Answer to which this schedule is annexed., 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 E (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 F (4 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 G (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 H (6 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Continuation of the above, 1771 November 20

C12 1322/36 I (3 pieces)


Flatbox Jay Affidavit of William Hardy, 1768 February 3

H319


Flatbox Jay Affidavit of Sir James Jay that the Reverend Samuel Johnson is above 70 years and is a material witness in this cause, 1768 February 1

H320



Box 1 Correspondence with Columbiana Curator Milton Halsey Thomas re: photostats, 1930 January 26