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On June 8, 1795, President George Washington submitted to the Senate all of the documents related to the negotiation of Jay's Treaty.

The Senate approved Jay's Treaty by a vote of 20 to 10 on June 24, 1795.

A copy of the resolution announcing the Senate's approval of Jay's Treaty.

"My opinion respecting the treaty, is the same now that it was: namely, not favorable to it, but that it is better to ratify it in the manner the Senate have advised (and with the reservation already mentioned), than to suffer matters to remain as they are, unsettled."

Petitions objecting to Jay's treaty were sent to Washington from a large number of towns, cities, and counties. Washington responded to most of these protests with the same answer that he sent to the Boston Selectmen.

"Mr. Jay’s treaty has at length been made public. So general a burst of dissatisfaction never before appeared against any transaction. Those who understand the particular articles of it, condemn these articles. Those who do not understand them minutely, condemn it generally as wearing a hostile face to France."

"I join with you in thinking the treaty an execrable thing . . . I trust the popular branch of our legislature will disapprove of it, and thus rid us of this infamous act, which is really nothing more than a treaty of alliance between England & the Anglomen of this country against the legislature & people of the United States."

"The most remarkable political occurrence with us has been the treaty with England, of which no man in the U S. has had the effrontery to affirm that it was not a very bad one except A. H. [note: Alexander Hamilton] under the signature of Camillus. It's most zealous defenders only pretended that it was better than war, as if war was not invited rather than avoided by unfounded demands. I have never known the public pulse beat so full and in such universal union on any subject since the declaration of independence, the House of Representatives of the U. S. has manifested its disapprobation of the treaty."

John Jay, one of the nation's founding fathers, was born on December 12, 1745, to a prominent and wealthy family in the Province of New York.