Papers of John Adams, volume 14
30 November 1782]1
Separate Article.
It is hereby understood and agreed that in Case Great Britain at the Conclusion of the present War shall recover or be put in Possession of West Florida, the Line of North Boundary between the said Province and the United States, shall be a Line drawn from the Mouth of the River Yassous, where it Unites with the Missisippi, due East to the River Apalachicola.
Done at Paris the thirtieth Day of November, one thousand seven hundred & eighty two.
(Signed)
| Richard Oswald | L.S. |
| John Adams | L.S. |
| 109 | |
| B. Franklin | L.S. |
| John Jay | L.S. |
| Henry Laurens. | L.S. |
| signed | |
| attest | Caleb Whiteford, Secretary to the British Commission |
| attest. | W. T. Franklin, Secy to the American Commission |
MS in a clerk's hand (Adams Papers); endorsed: “Separate Article.” This is page thirteen of a longer document, which almost certainly included the treaty proper also signed this day, above. At the top of the page, immediately preceeding the title “Separate Article” and in the same hand, are the names of Caleb Whitefoord and William Temple Franklin as witnesses to the full treaty, as they were to the separate article. LbC-Tr (Adams Papers); APM Reel 103.
For the arrival of this article and the remainder of the treaty at Congress on 12 March 1783, see the Preliminary Peace Treaty of 30 Nov., and note 1, above. For the failure of Congress to ratify this article, see Robert R. Livingston's 21 April 1783 letter to the commissioners, below.