31Thomas Boylston Adams to John Adams, 9 January 1801 (Adams Papers)
, Book II, ch. 17, sects. 283, 314. Art. 6 of the convention granted the United States and France most favored nation status, while Art. 25 of the Jay Treaty specified that neither the United States nor Great Britain would make treaties with other nations that would affect Anglo-American commercial relations. Although there was informal discussion...
32To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Auguste Adet, 27 July 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
...she had engaged the United States into making towards us. The opinion which the Directory adopted was that of the friends of liberty, and of those who knew the real interests of the United States and France. But to bring about the triumph of that opinion they were required to struggle against the secret friends of England, who to back up the efforts of the partisans of discord which that...
33The Answer, [8 December 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
suspends all the commercial relations between the United States and France, by preventing the supplies looked for by France from this country.Commerce between the United States and France of February 6, 1778, see
34The Warning No. VI, [27 March 1797] (Hamilton Papers)
6th of February, 1778, between the United States and France, the former Power engaged to defend the American possessions in case of war, and that the Government and the commerce of the United States have strangely abused the forbearance of the republic of France, in turning to its...
35To Alexander Hamilton from Fisher Ames, 26 January 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 11 of the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed on February 6, 1778. See
36Enclosure: Address from Annapolis, Maryland, Citizens, 5 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
For the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United
States and France (1778), see
37To James Madison from John Armstrong, 18 March 1805 (Madison Papers)
, 2:636), stating that he had again raised these questions with the French, had been rebuffed, and had dropped the issue lest it lead to estrangement between the United States and France, and because he did not wish to give Joseph Bonaparte, a supporter of the United States, a reason to withdraw that support. He said he appended a letter showing Joseph’s view of the matter and he rejected...
38To Thomas Jefferson from Joel Barlow, 12 March 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
. Enclosure: Barlow to Abraham Baldwin, Paris, 4 Mch. 1798, a treatise on worsening relations between the United States and France, attributing the deterioration to American measures that included the appointment of Gouverneur Morris as minister to France, the Jay Treaty, the recall of James Monroe, and the sending to France of Pinckney (whose return there after the...
39To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Barnes, 10 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
An article in each of those pacts guaranteed the free passage of ships and protected the cargoes of neutral vessels. Those provisions appeared also in a treaty between Russia and Sweden in March 1801. The convention between the United States and France included similar guarantees, Article 14 declaring “that free ships shall give a freedom to goods” (
40To Alexander Hamilton from Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais, [October 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
received eight hundred thousand francs and agreed to abandon any further claims. For the text of the Convention between the United States and France, July 4, 1831, see
41Jeremy Belknap to Abigail Adams, 14 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
Observations on the Dispute between the United States and France
42To James Madison from Bradley & Mulford, 20 January 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
, 5:118–19; “Statement Showing the Payments of Awards of the Commissioners Appointed under the Conventions between the United States and France …,”
43To George Washington from Colonel Daniel Brodhead, 29 May 1779 (Washington Papers)
“16th Most of the Prisoners took the oath of Neutrality and got permission to set out for detroit Sent by them a copy of the Alliance between the United States and france.
44Cabinet Opinions on the Roland and Relations with Great Britain, France, and the Creek Indians, 31 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
, 26:68–71). For the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, see
45To Thomas Jefferson from Calonne, 22 October 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
For a brief account of the immediate background of this general code of regulations affecting trade between the United States and France, see
46The Defence No. XXXVIII, [9 January 1796] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, signed at Paris on February 6, 1778. Articles 1 and 7 of this treaty read: “Art. 1. If War should break out betwan france and Great Britain, during the continuence of the present War betwan the......18) and Article 21 (originally 23) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France,...
47The Defence No. XXV, [18 November 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
See Article 30 (originally 32) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778, which states that subjects of the United States might use “… the free Ports which have been and are open in the french Islands of America …, agreable to the Regulations which relate to......of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6...
48The Defence No. XVII, [22 September 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778. See Space left blank in MS, but H is referring to Article 11 (originally 13) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France. For this article, see
49The Defence No. XVI, [18 September 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to Article 22 (originally 24) of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, February 6, 1778 (
50The Defence No. XXII, [5–11 November 1795] (Hamilton Papers)
This is a reference to the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, signed at Paris on February 6, 1778 (
51To George Washington from Arthur Campbell, 29 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
For the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, which were signed at Paris on 6 Feb. 1778, see
52Enclosure: Resolutions of Caroline County, Virginia, Citizens, 10 September 1793 (Washington Papers)
Resolved That a dissolution of the Honorable & beneficial connection between the
United States and France, must Obviously be Attempted with a view to forward a plan of
a more intimate Union & connection of the former with Great Britain; as a leading
step towards Assimilating the American Government to the form and Spirit of...
53To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 14 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
by a Repetition but beg Leave to add That I am Confident That after my Father has done Every Thing in his power to serve both Countries of United States and France That I having followed his Example with Zeal, Integrity and Probity, you will take in your Wisdom my Critical Situation and not abandon me as a Bastard of not any Country?
54To James Madison from James H. Causten, 1 January 1827 (Madison Papers)
For the Convention of 1800 between the United States and France, 30 Sept. 1800, see
55To Benjamin Franklin from Jérôme-Marie Champion de Cicé, 27 December 1783 (Franklin Papers)
proposed the appointment of a French ecclesiastic to oversee the Catholic Church in America. The archbishop urged Vergennes not to miss this opportunity to strengthen the Catholic faith as well as ties between the United States and France. Before he answered
56To George Washington from Caroline County, Va., Citizens, 11 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
For the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, see
57To George Washington from Clarke County, Ky., Citizens, 8 September 1795 (Washington Papers)
This statement referred to the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France (see
58Address from Columbia County, Ga., Citizens, 29 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
For the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France and their Treaty of Alliance, both 6 Feb. 1778, see
59To George Washington from the Citizens of Hartford, Connecticut, 2 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
For the Treaty of Alliance signed by the United States and France in 1778, see
60Address from the Citizens of New York City, 8 August 1793 (Washington Papers)
For the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, both signed in 1778, see