( conjectural )
5 Aug. 1783 to 6 Aug. 1783
Original paper slip text:[5–6? Aug. 1783]
"(Project for) the definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship" between Great Britain and the U.S.
15 p.
- Note: This is probably the "Project" that JA speaks of as his own in a letter to Livingston, 10 Aug. 1783, which was presented by Franklin and Jay to Hartley while JA was at The Hague; see Wharton, 6:643; see also JA to Livingston, 13 Aug. (same, p. 645), reporting that JA and Franklin presented this Project to Vergennes for his consideration. There is a text, "(Project for) the definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship" between Great Britain and the U.S.
- without date, in PCC, No. 85, p. 398–411, which is enclosure "No. 4" in American Commissioners to Congress, 10 Sept. 1783.
- Our date is taken from MiU-C catalogue entry (blue slip, following), but needs to be confirmed.
- Redated to [ante 19 July 1783]
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;Original paper slip text:Printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev., 6:601–606 (from Sparks, 5:526), under date of 27 July (an unsupported date).
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The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, ed. Francis Wharton, Washington, D.C., 1889
6 vols.
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