1To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 13 February 1783 (Jefferson Papers)
, 137, note.) Meanwhile, on 20 Jan. 1783, provisional articles of peace between Great Britain and France had been signed in Paris, and a declaration of the cessation of hostilities had been signed by the British and American commissioners (same, p. 223–4). This news reached Congress on 24 Mch. “by a French...
2From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 February 1783 (Madison Papers)
..., to the lord mayor of London, informing him of the signing of the preliminary articles of peace with the United States, and adding, “it now only remains to sign the same articles between Great-Britain and France, to constitute a general peace”; and (2) an extract from an anonymous letter of 12 February 1783 from Elizabethtown, N.J., in which the author, after mentioning a rumor from...