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The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a 1794 treaty between the
First page of the Jay Treaty
Portrait of John Jay by Gilbert Stuart, 1794. Jay was chief American negotiator
Thomas Jefferson was harshly critical of the treaty.
John Jay
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John Jay was an American statesman, diplomat, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served from 1789 to 1795 as the first chief justice of the United States
Jay Treaty
…growth of two opposing American political parties, the pro-Treaty Federalists and the anti-Treaty Democratic-Republicans. The treaty was negotiated by John Jay (also a negotiator of the earlier Paris treaty) and gained several of the primary American goals. This included a British withdrawal from forts in the…
Jay's childhood home in Rye, New York is a New York State Historic Site and Westchester County Park
Master of Arts diploma awarded to Jay in 1767
Jay's retirement home near Katonah, New York is a New York State Historic Site