rvis, F. S.= =Sy= Gentleman usher of black rod, 334.

=Jarvis, William.= =S= Recommended by Simcoe as clerk of Council, 46;
provincial secretary, 79, 178.

=Jarvis, W. B.= =Mc= Loyalists retreat under, 373.

=Jay, John= (1745-1829). American statesman and jurist. =Index=: =Dr=
Negotiates treaty with Great Britain, 283, 286. =Bib.=: _Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Jay's Treaty.= Between Great Britain and the United States; negotiated
Nov. 19, 1794. Provided for the evacuation by Great Britain of the
western posts; the settlement by commission of pecuniary claims between
the two countries; the appointment of a joint commission to determine
the identity of the St. Croix River; and closer commercial relations.
Negotiated by John Jay on behalf of the United States, and Lord
Grenville representing Great Britain. =Index=: =S= Between Britain and
the United States, 142. =Dr= Copies of, circulated in Canada, 290;
ratified, 291. =Bib.=: Hertslet, _Treaties and Conventions_.

=Jefferson, Thomas= (1743-1826). Third president of the United States.
=Index=: =Dr= His hostility to Great Britain, 273, 274, 281; his defeat
for the presidency, in 1797, 298. =Bk= Purchases Louisiana from France,
41, 42; his embargo on United States ships trading to British ports, 85,
108; withdraws embargo, 114; confident of easy conquest of Canada, 259,
285. =D= His influence in determining policy of United States as to the
Pacific coast, 64-66; sends Lewis and Clark overland to Pacific, 66.
=Bib.=: His _Works_, ed. by Henry A. Washington, were published by order
of Congress, in 9 vols., 1853. _See also_ Randolph, _Memoirs,
Correspondence and Miscellanies of Jefferson_. For biog., _see_ Randall,
_Life of Jefferson_; Tucker, _Life of Thomas Jefferson_; Parton, _Life
of Thomas Jefferson_; _Cyc. Am. Biog._

=Jemseg.= On Jemseg Creek, Queen's County, New Brunswick. =Index=: =F=
For a time headquarters in Acadia, 270.

=Jenkins, William.= =T= Teacher in Gagetown Grammar School, New
Brunswick, 5; conducts large school in Quebec, 6; visited by Sir Leonard
Tilley in 1858, 6; dies in 1863, 6.

=Jersey Volunteers.= =Dr= Loyalists, 202.

=Jervis, John.= _See_ St. Vincent.

=Jesuits' Estates Act.= Passed by the Mercier government in Quebec,
1888. Following the suppression of the Society of Jesus by the pope, in
1773, the property of the order in Canada became vested in the crown,
and was set apart for purposes of education in the province of Quebec.
By the British Nort