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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... , I now have the honor to tell you what I think upon the several transactions that have lately taken place . Before the change of Ministry , the old Administration had sent people to feel the pulse of the French 8 LAFAYETTE .
... , I now have the honor to tell you what I think upon the several transactions that have lately taken place . Before the change of Ministry , the old Administration had sent people to feel the pulse of the French 8 LAFAYETTE .
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... honor to be , & c . LAFAYETTE . ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON TO M. DE LAFAYETTE . Dear Sir , Philadelphia , January 10th , 1783 . I was honored by yours of the 14th of October last . It contains much useful information , and upon the whole ...
... honor to be , & c . LAFAYETTE . ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON TO M. DE LAFAYETTE . Dear Sir , Philadelphia , January 10th , 1783 . I was honored by yours of the 14th of October last . It contains much useful information , and upon the whole ...
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... honors me so far as to direct , that I am to be consulted by their European Minis- ters , which circumstances I do not mention out of vanity , but only to show , that in giving my opinion , I am called upon by dictates of honor and duty ...
... honors me so far as to direct , that I am to be consulted by their European Minis- ters , which circumstances I do not mention out of vanity , but only to show , that in giving my opinion , I am called upon by dictates of honor and duty ...
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... honor to write to you from Brest , and my letters down to that date have contained accounts of our political affairs . Since which time , I have been taken up in preparations of a plan that would have turned out to the advantage of ...
... honor to write to you from Brest , and my letters down to that date have contained accounts of our political affairs . Since which time , I have been taken up in preparations of a plan that would have turned out to the advantage of ...
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... honor to be , & c . LAFAYETTE . TO THE COUNT DE FLORIDA BLANCA . Translation . Madrid , February 19th , 1783 . Sir , Having had the honor to confer with your Excel- lency on the objects relative to the United States , and being soon to ...
... honor to be , & c . LAFAYETTE . TO THE COUNT DE FLORIDA BLANCA . Translation . Madrid , February 19th , 1783 . Sir , Having had the honor to confer with your Excel- lency on the objects relative to the United States , and being soon to ...
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Page 87 - 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 100 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 109 - Superior; thence through Lake Superior northward of the Isles Royal and Phelipeaux to the Long Lake; thence through the middle of said Long Lake and the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods, to the said Lake of the Woods; thence through the said lake to the most northwestern point thereof, and from thence on a due west course to the river Mississippi...
Page 93 - ... the northernmost part of the thirtyfirst degree of north latitude. South, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of the line last mentioned, in the latitude of...
Page 101 - 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 195 - His Britannic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes, or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons, and fleets from the said United States, and from every port, place, and harbour within the same...
Page 176 - 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 109 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Page 111 - Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States. And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavors to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights, and properties as may have been confiscated...
Page 89 - 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.