Notes
1 Quoted in George Dangerfield, Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746–1813 (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960), 94.
2 Livingston to John Jay, 21 April 1779, Elizabeth M Nuxoll (ed), The Selected Papers of John Jay, 5 vols. to date (University of Virginia Press, 2010) I, 619.
3 Clinton to Jay, 5 October 1779, Jay, I, 705.
4 Jay to Clinton, 6 May 1780, Jay, II, 783.