REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. CARROLL, Daniel (1730-1796), Congressman, Signer of Constiutution . Autograph letter signed to an unknown recipient, Philadelphia, 12 March 1783. 1 p, 4to, address leaf renewed, discreet mends . "OUR INDEPENDENCE FULLY AKCNOWLEDGED": THE PRELIMINARY TREATY OF PARIS REACHES CONGRESS. A provocative letter written the day that Congress received the preliminary peace treaty from Franklin in Paris. "It is some time since I received your favor respecting Mr. Jefferson. I have been in daily expectation of hearing something agreeable, at least conclusive, on the important object..." The critical treaty documents, he reports, were delivered by a Captain Barney, skipper of the Washington. "We have sent by express," Carroll continued, "the provisional articles signed between our Commissioners & Mr. Oswald the 30th of November. The Substance (for I have not [time] to make a fair copy for the Executive) are--Boundaries restricting Canada to the articles of peace in 1763 or nearly. Fishing allowed under moderate restrictions. Refugees to depend upon the Assemblies of the several States. British debts to be discharged. Navigation of Mississippi free. Our independence fully acknowledged." Richard Oswald was the British negotiator who sat across the table from Franklin, Adams, Laurens and Jay. Carroll, a Maryland Federalist, a signer of the Constitution and one of three original commissioners of the District of Columbia, is concerned that "matters between the other powers [France, Spain and Holland] would not be very soon concluded." But France had only asked that "some paragraphs" be inserted in the treaty, and "Spain & Holland little." The King of Sweden, he reports, "had given powers to his Minister at Versailles to treat with Doc. Franklin on a treaty of Amity & commerce." Congress balked at some of the preliminary terms, but overall, as Madison put it, they "appeared to Congress on the whole extremely liberal." The definitive Treaty, confirming American independence, was signed six months later, on September 3, 1783.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. CARROLL, Daniel (1730-1796), Congressman, Signer of Constiutution . Autograph letter signed to an unknown recipient, Philadelphia, 12 March 1783. 1 p, 4to, address leaf renewed, discreet mends . "OUR INDEPENDENCE FULLY AKCNOWLEDGED": THE PRELIMINARY TREATY OF PARIS REACHES CONGRESS. A provocative letter written the day that Congress received the preliminary peace treaty from Franklin in Paris. "It is some time since I received your favor respecting Mr. Jefferson. I have been in daily expectation of hearing something agreeable, at least conclusive, on the important object..." The critical treaty documents, he reports, were delivered by a Captain Barney, skipper of the Washington. "We have sent by express," Carroll continued, "the provisional articles signed between our Commissioners & Mr. Oswald the 30th of November. The Substance (for I have not [time] to make a fair copy for the Executive) are--Boundaries restricting Canada to the articles of peace in 1763 or nearly. Fishing allowed under moderate restrictions. Refugees to depend upon the Assemblies of the several States. British debts to be discharged. Navigation of Mississippi free. Our independence fully acknowledged." Richard Oswald was the British negotiator who sat across the table from Franklin, Adams, Laurens and Jay. Carroll, a Maryland Federalist, a signer of the Constitution and one of three original commissioners of the District of Columbia, is concerned that "matters between the other powers [France, Spain and Holland] would not be very soon concluded." But France had only asked that "some paragraphs" be inserted in the treaty, and "Spain & Holland little." The King of Sweden, he reports, "had given powers to his Minister at Versailles to treat with Doc. Franklin on a treaty of Amity & commerce." Congress balked at some of the preliminary terms, but overall, as Madison put it, they "appeared to Congress on the whole extremely liberal." The definitive Treaty, confirming American independence, was signed six months later, on September 3, 1783.
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