Excerpt from The Lives and Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Vol. 1 The author's particular thanks are due to Mr. William Jay for the polite manner with which he submitted to his use his own labors, together with the important testimony of Lord St. Helen's, respecting the negotiations at Paris, in 1782 and 1783. He must also express his obligations to those of the descendants of Rutledge, who have been so good as to put him in possession of facts, elsewhere unattainable, respecting their distinguished ancestor. He has thus been enabled to elucidate passages of his life that have hitherto rested in fable. To those of his friends, who have either supplied him with new facts, or pointed out' new sources of informa tion, he begs, in this public manner, to return his sincere thanks. He would do injustice to his own feelings, did he fail to mention, in this connection, Mr. Lloyd P. Smith, of the Library Company of Philadelphia. He has, with unfailing politeness, assisted the author's researches, and given him the full benefit of his extensive bibliographical knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.