TREATY OF SEPTEMBER 3, 1783, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES 

 AND GREAT BRITAIN. 



Definitive treaty of peace 'between the United States of America and 

 His Britannic Majesty, concluded September 3, 1783. 



In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. 



It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of 

 the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the 

 Grace of God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender 

 of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Arch-Treasurer and 

 Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, &ca., and of the United 

 States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differ- 

 ences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and 

 friendship which they mutually wish to restore ; and to establish such 

 a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries, 

 upon the ground of reciprocal advantages and mutual convenience, as 

 may promote and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony : And 

 having for this desirable end already laid the foundation of peace 

 and reconciliation, by the provisional articles, signed at Paris, on 

 the 30th of Nov'r, 1782, by the commissioners empowered on each part, 

 which articles were agreed to be inserted in and to constitute the 

 treaty of peace proposed to be concluded between the Crown of 

 Great Britain and the said United States, but which treaty was not 

 to be concluded until terms of peace should be agreed upon between 

 Great Britain and France, and His Britannic Majesty should be 

 ready to conclude such treaty accordingly; and the treaty between 

 Great Britain and France having since been concluded, His Britan- 

 nic Majesty and the United States of America, in order to carry into 

 full effect the provisional articles above mentioned, according to the 

 tenor thereof, have constituted and appointed, that is to say, His 

 Britannic Majesty on his part, David Hartley, esqr., member of the 

 Parliament of Great Britain; and the said United States on their 

 part, John Adams, esqr., late a commissioner of the United States of 

 America at the Court of Versailles., late Delegate in Congress from 

 the State of Massachusetts, and chief justice of the said State, and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary of the said United States to their High 

 Mightinesses the States General of the United Netherlands; Benja- 

 min Franklin, esq're, late Delegate in Congress from the State of 

 Pennsylvania, president of the convention of the said State, and 

 Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America at the 

 Court of Versailles ; John Jay, esq're, late president of Congress, and 

 chief justice of the State of New York, and Minister Plenipotentiary 

 from the said United States at the Court of Madrid, to be the Pleni- 

 potentiaries for the concluding and signing the present definitive 



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