The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution: Lafayette, Commissioners for Peace, Gerard, and LuzerneN. Hale and Gray & Bowen, 1830 - United States |
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... Court fears the effect of the Ameri- can revolution on its Colonies . - Conferences with the other Spanish Ministers . - Disposition of the Spanish Court towards the United States . - Urges the necessity of strengthening the union ...
... Court fears the effect of the Ameri- can revolution on its Colonies . - Conferences with the other Spanish Ministers . - Disposition of the Spanish Court towards the United States . - Urges the necessity of strengthening the union ...
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... Court , and the concealing of the Separate Article . - Proclamation of Congress , Declaring a Cessation of Arms , Robert R. Livingston to the Commissioners . Phil- adelphia , April 21st , 1783 , 133 · 136 Proceedings in Congress ...
... Court , and the concealing of the Separate Article . - Proclamation of Congress , Declaring a Cessation of Arms , Robert R. Livingston to the Commissioners . Phil- adelphia , April 21st , 1783 , 133 · 136 Proceedings in Congress ...
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... Court for an entire reconciliation . B. Franklin to Charles Fox . 5th , 1783 , Passy , September Expressing his satisfaction with Mr Hartley . 209 · 210 · 211 To David Hartley . Passy , September 5th , 1783 , 212 Desire a return of ...
... Court for an entire reconciliation . B. Franklin to Charles Fox . 5th , 1783 , Passy , September Expressing his satisfaction with Mr Hartley . 209 · 210 · 211 To David Hartley . Passy , September 5th , 1783 , 212 Desire a return of ...
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... Court for the seizure of American prizes in Danish ports ; to report to Congress in- formation as to the expedition of Commodore Jones ; to take no further steps for the admission of the United States into the confederacy of the neutral ...
... Court for the seizure of American prizes in Danish ports ; to report to Congress in- formation as to the expedition of Commodore Jones ; to take no further steps for the admission of the United States into the confederacy of the neutral ...
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... Court cannot answer for the house of Hortalez & Co. To the President of Congress . Philadelphia , Feb- ruary 9th , 1779 , 268 * - 269 The King of Spain has determined to adopt decisive measures . Advises the nomination of agents to ...
... Court cannot answer for the house of Hortalez & Co. To the President of Congress . Philadelphia , Feb- ruary 9th , 1779 , 268 * - 269 The King of Spain has determined to adopt decisive measures . Advises the nomination of agents to ...
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Page 112 - Lawrence, and at all other Places in the Sea where the Inhabitants of both Countries used at any time heretofore to fish. And also that the Inhabitants of the United States shall have Liberty to take Fish of every Kind on such Part of the Coast of New-foundland as British Fishermen shall use, (but not to dry or cure the same on that Island) And also on the Coasts Bays & Creeks of all other of his Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America...
Page 89 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 112 - Liberty to dry and cure Fish in any of the unsettled Bays Harbours and Creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said Fishermen to dry or cure Fish at such Settlement, without a previous Agreement for that purpose with the Inhabitants, Proprietors or Possessors of the Ground.
Page 180 - If war should arise between the two contracting parties, the merchants of either country, then residing in the other, shall be allowed to remain nine months to collect their debts and settle their affairs, and may depart freely, carrying off all their effects, without molestation or hindrance...
Page 103 - Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said river Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude.
Page 90 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 113 - ... not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which, on the return of the blessings of peace, should universally prevail.
Page 91 - The navigation of the river Mississippi from its source to the ocean, shall forever remain free and open to the subjects of Great Britain and the citizens of the United States.
Page 112 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 113 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of his majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.