11“A Traveller”: News-Writers’ Nonsense, 20 May 1765 (Franklin Papers)
...“Lakes.” The report of a whale fishery in the Great Lakes (cited by Crane as from the
12Gottfried Achenwall: Some Observations on North America from Information of Dr. Franklin, [July 1766] (Franklin Papers)
...are held. Lake Ontario is connected by water through the greater lakes lying inland with the
13To Benjamin Franklin from [Samuel Wharton], 2 December 1768 (Franklin Papers)
...compelled to seek a Retreat, To the Westward of the great Lakes.
14From John Adams to George Washington, 6 January 1776 (Adams Papers)
..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
15To George Washington from John Adams, 6 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
16From John Adams to James Warren, 16 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
..., they will have the Navigation of the five great Lakes quite as far as the Mississipi River,...
17To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 3 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...be the Case, or that they would remove over the Great Lakes.
18To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh, 27 April 1779 (Washington Papers)
...as well as the Western Tribes over the great Lakes, or bring them to Terms, as they...
19From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1779 (Washington Papers)
...After the war, La Mothe remained in the Great Lakes region and served as an Indian interpreter...
20Motion Regarding the Western Lands, [6 September] 1780 (Madison Papers)
..., but between that stream and the Great Lakes and from the poorly defined western...
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...
31Draft Peace Treaty Presented by Richard Oswald to the American Peace Commissioners, 25 November 1782 (Adams Papers)
...boundary through the middle of the Great Lakes. For the alternatives considered before this...
32Report on Simon Metcalfe, [10 December] 1782 (Madison Papers)
...in trading with the Indians along the Great Lakes and in shipping dried fish and lumber...
33From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 14 December 1782 (Adams Papers)
..., and the Western Lands as far as the Great Lakes, is ours too, unless Spain should defeat...
34From John Adams to James Warren, 15 December 1782 (Adams Papers)
...and Western Lands to the middle of the great Lakes, are as well secured to Us as...
35From John Adams to Henry Laurens, 12 March 1783 (Adams Papers)
...Independence, the Fisheries and half the great Lakes. Our Countrymen love Buck Skins Beaver...
36To Benjamin Franklin from James Hutton, 2 May 1783 (Franklin Papers)
The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754–1814
37Continental Congress Motion on Prohibition of Naval Forces on Great Lakes, 20 May 1783 (Hamilton Papers)
Motion on Prohibition of Naval Forces on Great Lakes
38[June 1783] (Adams Papers)
...between the South Sea and Hudsons Bay is a great Lake. Here it is to search for a North...
39To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 16 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
...and all the posts seated on the great Lakes, will enevitably be lost without such...
401783. June 19. Thursday. Fete Dieu. (Adams Papers)
...between the South Sea and Hudsons Bay is a great Lake. Here it is to search for a North...
41Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 8 September 1783 (Madison Papers)
...the evacuation of the posts south of the Great Lakes and evidently did not plan to do so...
42To John Adams from Samuel Osgood, 7 December 1783 (Adams Papers)
...a northern U.S. boundary on the Great Lakes and a western boundary on the Mississippi...
43From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1784 (Washington Papers)
...streams and short portages to the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. See particularly
44[October 1784] (Washington Papers)
...border between the United States and Canada west of the Great Lakes.
45[Diary entry: 4 October 1784] (Washington Papers)
...border between the United States and Canada west of the Great Lakes.
46To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 October 1784 (Jefferson Papers)
...independence and liberty: Your Father over the great lake will take them by the hand,...
47John Adams to Thomas Cushing, 25 October 1784 (Adams Papers)
...Native Americans and the British in the Great Lakes region were false, though fear of...
...: along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes were Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg, N.Y.), Oswego...
49John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 3 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
...posts in the northwest, on and near the Great Lakes, under arts. 2 and 7 of the...
50Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 6 September 1785 (Adams Papers)
...s refusal to surrender several forts on the Great Lakes to the United States, as provided in...
51Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1785 (Adams Papers)
...of forts on the American shores of the Great Lakes; America’s resistance to paying debts...
52Notes on the History of North America, [December 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
...two Rivers overlapping one another having their rise from the great lakes &c.”
53To John Adams from Richard Henry Lee, 3 September 1787 (Adams Papers)
...the Allegheny Mountains on the east, the Great Lakes on the north, the Mississippi River on...
54Enclosure, 15 June 1789 (Washington Papers)
...by the British government on the Great Lakes were not actually surrendered until after...
55From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harison and other District Attorneys, 12 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
...states to settle on “the banks of the Great Lakes, the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Mississippi...
56From George Washington to Lansdowne, 7 November 1791 (Washington Papers)
...on the Mississippi River and a northern one along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (
57To Alexander Hamilton from Medad Mitchell, [9 February 1792] (Hamilton Papers)
..., former captain of a British vessel on the Great Lakes, was engaged in trade in 1779 when...
58Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 24 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
...to trade with British outposts on the Great Lakes and to travel between Fort Niagara and...
59To George Washington from William Smith, 25 February 1793 (Washington Papers)
...not produce the projected volume on the Indians of the Great Lakes before his death in 1803.
60To John Adams from Benjamin Lincoln, 11 September 1793 (Adams Papers)
...with the King, about ten years since, the great lakes and the waters which unite them, were by...