FEDERALIST PAPERS
Gift Made To University (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK. A gift of more than 200 papers detailing periods in the life of John Jay, first Chief Justice of . the United States, has been given to Columbia University by its class of 1925.
Jay was, according to his own notes in this collection, an active revolutionary who procured cannon for the defence of the Hudson River against the British in the summer of 1776. A co-author of the Federalist Papers that urged ratification of the Constitution, Jay was a graduate in 1764 of King’s College, which later became Colnumbia University.
The letters were addressed to such figures as John Adams, George Washton, Edmund Burke, and John Trumbull.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32391, 2 September 1970, Page 13
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