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Dates:

10 Sep. 1783

Original paper slip text:10 Sept. 1783

Author:

American Commissioners

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American Commissioners (

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Benjamin Franklin

Original paper slip text:Benjamin Franklin

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John Jay

Original paper slip text:John Jay)

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Recipient:

Elias Boudinot

Original paper slip text:to Elias Boudinot, President of Congress

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Length:

34 p.

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with 9 enclosures: American Ministers' proposals to Hartley, 29 April; Hartley's Observations on the American proposals, 21 May; Hartley's proposed Agreement, June; Project for a Definitive Treaty [5–6 Aug.?]; Hartley to the American Ministers, 29 Aug.; American Ministers to Hartley, 30 Aug.; Hartley to the American Ministers, 4 Sept.; American Ministers to Hartley, 5 Sept.; Vergennes' propositions for explaining 2d and 3d articles of Franco-American Treaty of 1778, 20 May 1783 (q.v., above under that date).
RG 59, PCC, No. 85, p. 370–422
Text of letter is 370–385; endorsement sheet: "Joint Letter. . . .Rec'd Decr. 13. 1783. Referred to TJ[&c]"
See JCC, 25:812 (13 Dec. 1783).
Transmitted in message from President George Washington to House and Senate, 5 Dec. 1793, "in relation to the situation of Europe," same, p. 141–142
Information transferred from blue slips now deleted. - AMN 9/20/18

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PJA, 15:282-288

Papers of John Adams, volume 15, page 282

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Wharton

Original paper slip text:Printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev., 6:687–691 (from MSS. Dept. of State)

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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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Amer. State Papers

Original paper slip text:Printed (extract): Amer. State Papers, For. Rel., 1:222

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American State Papers, 1789-1838. 38 vols.

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