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FREDERICK JAY TO JAY. 191
FREDERICK JAY TO JAY.
POUGHKEEPSIK, 20tb April, 1782.
Dear Sir :
My last to you, of the 3d ult., was short and contained
very little more than giving you an account of Papa's illness
and that he was past recovery.
It gives me pain to inform you that it pleased God to
take him from us on the morning of the 17th inst., and was
yesterday intered in the vault of Gysbert Schenck, Esqr.,
at Fish Kill. It is very remarkable that he expired on
the same day and month and the very hour that our poor
mother did. To give you an account of his illness would
only add to your Grief; his greatest complaint was frequent
and violent pains in his breast, and ye last attack proved
fatal.
Poor Nancy and Peter are much distressed—Nancy especially, but nothing to make them easy and comfortable shall
be wanting on my part. I will not forsake them ; in a word,
ever since and long before our robbery I have had the burthen of the family upon me, and the weight has been almost
too heavy for me to bear. However I am determined to do
all I can, and shall be happy if what I have done and will
still do will be satisfactory. Your not hearing as often from
me as you had reason to expect or I would wish, must in a
great measure be attributed to the great charge I had upon
me, and being under the necessity of attending Papa every
other night during his Illness, which commenced early in
December, really affected both my body and mind to such
a Degree as rendered me almost incapable of doing any
thing.1
1 In a letter to his brother Frederick, dated Feb. 13, 1782, Jay wrote: " Mr.
Benson informs me that the family are now at Poughkeepsie and that my father
has resigned the management of it to you. I am pleased with this circumstance, especially as it will now be in your power to make the remainder of his
days free from care and consequently as easy and agreeable as age and infirmi-
| Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 2 |
| Creator | Jay, John |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Place of Publication | New York, London |
| Date | [1890-93] |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000212 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | FREDERICK JAY TO JAY. 191 FREDERICK JAY TO JAY. POUGHKEEPSIK, 20tb April, 1782. Dear Sir : My last to you, of the 3d ult., was short and contained very little more than giving you an account of Papa's illness and that he was past recovery. It gives me pain to inform you that it pleased God to take him from us on the morning of the 17th inst., and was yesterday intered in the vault of Gysbert Schenck, Esqr., at Fish Kill. It is very remarkable that he expired on the same day and month and the very hour that our poor mother did. To give you an account of his illness would only add to your Grief; his greatest complaint was frequent and violent pains in his breast, and ye last attack proved fatal. Poor Nancy and Peter are much distressed—Nancy especially, but nothing to make them easy and comfortable shall be wanting on my part. I will not forsake them ; in a word, ever since and long before our robbery I have had the burthen of the family upon me, and the weight has been almost too heavy for me to bear. However I am determined to do all I can, and shall be happy if what I have done and will still do will be satisfactory. Your not hearing as often from me as you had reason to expect or I would wish, must in a great measure be attributed to the great charge I had upon me, and being under the necessity of attending Papa every other night during his Illness, which commenced early in December, really affected both my body and mind to such a Degree as rendered me almost incapable of doing any thing.1 1 In a letter to his brother Frederick, dated Feb. 13, 1782, Jay wrote: " Mr. Benson informs me that the family are now at Poughkeepsie and that my father has resigned the management of it to you. I am pleased with this circumstance, especially as it will now be in your power to make the remainder of his days free from care and consequently as easy and agreeable as age and infirmi- |
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