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No. Author Recipient Title Date Context
11 Franklin, Benjamin “A Traveller”: News-Writers’ Nonsense, 20 May 1765 1765-05-20 ...“Lakes.” The report of a whale fishery in the Great Lakes (cited by Crane as from the
12 Gottfried Achenwall: Some Observations on North America … ≈1766-07-01 ...are held. Lake Ontario is connected by water through the greater lakes lying inland with the
13 Wharton, Samuel Franklin, Benjamin To Benjamin Franklin from [Samuel Wharton], 2 December … 1768-12-02 ...compelled to seek a Retreat, To the Westward of the great Lakes.
14 Adams, John Washington, George From John Adams to George Washington, 6 January 1776 1776-01-06 ..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
15 Adams, John Washington, George To George Washington from John Adams, 6 January 1776 1776-01-06 ..., as it is a Passage to Canada to the Great Lakes and to all the Indians Nations. No Effort...
16 Adams, John Warren, James From John Adams to James Warren, 16 June 1776 1776-06-16 ..., they will have the Navigation of the five great Lakes quite as far as the Mississipi River,...
17 McIntosh, Lachlan Washington, George To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan … 1779-04-03 ...be the Case, or that they would remove over the Great Lakes.
18 McIntosh, Lachlan Washington, George To George Washington from Brigadier General Lachlan … 1779-04-27 ...as well as the Western Tribes over the great Lakes, or bring them to Terms, as they...
19 Washington, George Jefferson, Thomas From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July … 1779-07-10 ...After the war, La Mothe remained in the Great Lakes region and served as an Indian interpreter...
20 Jones, Joseph Motion Regarding the Western Lands, [6 September] 1780 1780-09-06 ..., but between that stream and the Great Lakes and from the poorly defined western...
21 Washington, George Sullivan, John From George Washington to John Sullivan, 4 February … 1781-02-04 ...Country in the Universe of the same extent taking the great Lakes for its Northern boundary.
22 Washington, George Duane, James From George Washington to James Duane, 19 February 1781 1781-02-19 by the Ohio, Mississipi, & Great Lakes. (2) Mrs Washington, and the rest of the...
23 President of Congress Adams, John III. Instructions to the Joint Commission to Negotiate … 1781-06-15 ...boundary of the U.S. on the Great Lakes and the western boundary on the Mississippi...
24 Livingston, Robert R. Franklin, Benjamin To Benjamin Franklin from Robert R. Livingston, 7 … 1782-01-07 ...The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815
25 Franklin, Benjamin Hutton, James From Benjamin Franklin to James Hutton, 7 July 1782 1782-07-07 The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754–1814
26 Alexander, William Lord Stirling Washington, George To George Washington from William Lord Stirling … 1782-09-14 ...to Lake Ontario and of Course to all the Great Lakes above it. the only way I know of...
27 American Peace Commissioners Preliminary Articles of Peace: Second Draft Treaty … ≈1782-11-04 ...the option of choosing instead the Great Lakes and connecting rivers as a border...
28 Jay, John Preliminary Articles: Second Draft, [4–7 November 1782] ≈1782-11-04 ...treaty adopted the boundary line through the middle of the Great Lakes as proposed by
29 Oswald, Richard Draft Peace Treaty Agreed to by the American Peace … 1782-11-04 great lakes.” It was that solution to the boundary problem that...
30 Adams, John Livingston, Robert R. From John Adams to Robert R. Livingston, 6 November … 1782-11-06 ...choice of a line thro’ the middle of all the great lakes, or the line of 45°. of N. latitude...
31 Oswald, Richard Adams, John Draft Peace Treaty Presented by Richard Oswald to the … 1782-11-25 ...boundary through the middle of the Great Lakes. For the alternatives considered before this...
32 Madison, James Report on Simon Metcalfe, [10 December] 1782 1782-12-10 ...in trading with the Indians along the Great Lakes and in shipping dried fish and lumber...
33 Adams, John Gerry, Elbridge From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 14 December 1782 1782-12-14 ..., and the Western Lands as far as the Great Lakes, is ours too, unless Spain should defeat...
34 Adams, John Warren, James From John Adams to James Warren, 15 December 1782 1782-12-15 ...and Western Lands to the middle of the great Lakes, are as well secured to Us as...
35 Adams, John Laurens, Henry From John Adams to Henry Laurens, 12 March 1783 1783-03-12 ...Independence, the Fisheries and half the great Lakes. Our Countrymen love Buck Skins Beaver...
36 Hutton, James Franklin, Benjamin To Benjamin Franklin from James Hutton, 2 May 1783 1783-05-02 The Sixty Years’ War for the Great Lakes, 1754–1814
37 Hamilton, Alexander Continental Congress Motion on Prohibition of Naval … 1783-05-20 Motion on Prohibition of Naval Forces on Great Lakes
38 Adams, John [June 1783] ≈1783-06-01 ...between the South Sea and Hudsons Bay is a great Lake. Here it is to search for a North...
39 Putnam, Rufus Washington, George To George Washington from Rufus Putnam, 16 June 1783 1783-06-16 ...and all the posts seated on the great Lakes, will enevitably be lost without such...
40 Adams, John 1783. June 19. Thursday. Fete Dieu. 1783-06-19 ...between the South Sea and Hudsons Bay is a great Lake. Here it is to search for a North...
41 Virginia Delegates Harrison, Benjamin Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, 8 September … 1783-09-08 ...the evacuation of the posts south of the Great Lakes and evidently did not plan to do so...
42 Osgood, Samuel Adams, John To John Adams from Samuel Osgood, 7 December 1783 1783-12-07 ...a northern U.S. boundary on the Great Lakes and a western boundary on the Mississippi...
43 Washington, George Jefferson, Thomas From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March … 1784-03-29 ...streams and short portages to the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. See particularly
44 Washington, George [October 1784] ≈1784-10-01 ...border between the United States and Canada west of the Great Lakes.
45 Washington, George [Diary entry: 4 October 1784] 1784-10-04 ...border between the United States and Canada west of the Great Lakes.
46 Madison, James Jefferson, Thomas To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 17 October 1784 1784-10-17 ...independence and liberty: Your Father over the great lake will take them by the hand,...
47 Adams, John Cushing, Thomas John Adams to Thomas Cushing, 25 October 1784 1784-10-25 ...Native Americans and the British in the Great Lakes region were false, though fear of...
48 Jay, John Draft of Instructions to the American Minister in … 1785-02-05 ...: along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes were Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg, N.Y.), Oswego...
49 Adams, John Quincy Adams, John John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 3 August 1785 1785-08-03 ...posts in the northwest, on and near the Great Lakes, under arts. 2 and 7 of the...
50 Adams, Abigail Adams, John Quincy Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 6 September 1785 1785-09-06 ...s refusal to surrender several forts on the Great Lakes to the United States, as provided in...
51 Adams, Abigail Jefferson, Thomas Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1785 1785-12-20 ...of forts on the American shores of the Great Lakes; America’s resistance to paying debts...
52 Hamilton, Alexander Notes on the History of North America, [December 1786] ≈1786-12-01 ...two Rivers overlapping one another having their rise from the great lakes &c.”
53 Lee, Richard Henry Adams, John To John Adams from Richard Henry Lee, 3 September 1787 1787-09-03 ...the Allegheny Mountains on the east, the Great Lakes on the north, the Mississippi River on...
54 Knox, Henry Washington, George Enclosure, 15 June 1789 1789-06-15 ...by the British government on the Great Lakes were not actually surrendered until after...
55 Jefferson, Thomas Harison, Richard From Thomas Jefferson to Richard Harison and other … 1790-08-12 ...states to settle on “the banks of the Great Lakes, the Ohio, the Missouri, and the Mississippi...
56 Washington, George Lansdowne, William Petty, marquis of From George Washington to Lansdowne, 7 November 1791 1791-11-07 ...on the Mississippi River and a northern one along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (
57 Mitchell, Medad Hamilton, Alexander To Alexander Hamilton from Medad Mitchell, [9 February … 1792-02-09 ..., former captain of a British vessel on the Great Lakes, was engaged in trade in 1779 when...
58 Knox, Henry Lear, Tobias Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 24 February 1793 1793-02-24 ...to trade with British outposts on the Great Lakes and to travel between Fort Niagara and...
59 Smith, William Washington, George To George Washington from William Smith, 25 February … 1793-02-25 ...not produce the projected volume on the Indians of the Great Lakes before his death in 1803.
60 Lincoln, Benjamin Adams, John To John Adams from Benjamin Lincoln, 11 September 1793 1793-09-11 ...with the King, about ten years since, the great lakes and the waters which unite them, were by...