21From George Washington to John Sullivan, 4 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
...Country in the Universe of the same extent taking the great Lakes for its Northern boundary.
22From George Washington to James Duane, 19 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
by the Ohio, Mississipi, & Great Lakes. (2) Mrs Washington, and the rest of the...
23III. Instructions to the Joint Commission to Negotiate a Peace Treaty, 15 June 1781 (Adams Papers)
...boundary of the U.S. on the Great Lakes and the western boundary on the Mississippi...
24To Benjamin Franklin from Robert R. Livingston, 7 January 1782 (Franklin Papers)
...The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
25From Benjamin Franklin to James Hutton, 7 July 1782 (Franklin Papers)
The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754–1814
26To George Washington from William Lord Stirling Alexander, 14 September 1782 (Washington Papers)
...to Lake Ontario and of Course to all the Great Lakes above it. the only way I know of...
27Preliminary Articles of Peace: Second Draft Treaty, [4–7 November 1782] (Franklin Papers)
...the option of choosing instead the Great Lakes and connecting rivers as a border...
28Preliminary Articles: Second Draft, [4–7 November 1782] (Jay Papers)
...treaty adopted the boundary line through the middle of the Great Lakes as proposed by
29Draft Peace Treaty Agreed to by the American Peace Commissioners and Richard Oswald, 4 November 1782 (Adams Papers)
great lakes.” It was that solution to the boundary problem that...
30From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 6 November 1782 (Adams Papers)
...choice of a line thro’ the middle of all the great lakes, or the line of 45°. of N. latitude...