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Dates:

( conjectural ) ante

19 July 1783

Original paper slip text:[ante 19 July 1783]

Title:

"(Project for) the definitive Treaty of Peace and Friendship" between Great Britain and the U.S.

Length:

15 p.

Notes:

Note: This date is derived from JA's assertion in his 10 Aug. letter to Robert R. Livingston that he completed this draft treaty prior to his departure for the Netherlands on 19 July and that during his absence "a fair Copy" had been prepared and delivered to David Hartley. None of the commissioners' letters indicate when this happened, but on 13 Aug. JA wrote to Livingston that "the Duke of Manchester told me that Mr: Hartley's courier who carried our Project of a Treaty arrived in London last Saturday." Since Saturday was the 9th, and assuming that Hartley sent the draft off immediately and that it reached London in three or four days, it seems likely that Hartley received the draft on 5 or 6 August.--GL/HPW, Dec. 2008.
Originally dated [5-6 Aug. 1783] based on MiU-C catalog entry. See also text without date in PCC, No. 85, f. 398-411, which is enclosure "No. 4" in American Peace Commissioners to Congress, 10 Sept. 1783.
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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 103

Original held by:

Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Letterbook copy, Adams Family Papers

Printed and Online :

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PJA, 15:151-161

Papers of John Adams, volume 15, page 151

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Wharton

Original paper slip text:Printed: Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev., 6:601-606 (from Sparks, 5:526), under date of 27 July (and unsupported).

Full citation:

The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, ed. Francis Wharton, Washington, D.C., 1889
6 vols.

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