1From James Madison to William Bradford, 23 March 1778 (Madison Papers)
.... And yet, by early 1778, the government of Queen Maria I was exhibiting restlessness against the longstanding commercial entente with England. Rumors were afloat that the Portuguese court would soon attune its commercial policy with that of the United States and France (
2The Commissioners to Vergennes, 17 July 1778 (Adams Papers)
On this day the United States and France exchanged the official ratifications of the Treaties of Amity and Commerce and Alliance. The resolution was probably adopted by the congress on 4 May, immediately after it had completed its ratification of the treaties. Congress, after thanking Louis...
3Dumas to the American Commissioners, 24 July 1778: résumé (Franklin Papers)
The two articles of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce that the United States and France had agreed to drop.
4Sartine to the Commissioners: A Translation, 16 August 1778 (Adams Papers)
The translator’s “U States” is clearly a misreading of “Etats respectifs,” that is, the United States and France.
5To Benjamin Franklin from the Continental Congress: Instructions, Plan of an Attack upon Quebec and Observations on the … (Franklin Papers)
6thly. That it will secure the Fisheries to the United States and France their Ally to the total exclusion Of Great britain.
6To 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.
7To Benjamin Franklin from the Continental Congress: Instructions, [14 August–16 October 1779] (Franklin Papers)
, that Britain by so doing would break the peace and hence reactivate the defensive alliance between the United States and France (for which see
8To John Adams from James Lovell, 16 November 1779 (Adams Papers)
Incorrect in the sense that Arts. 11 and 12, which the United States and France had agreed to remove from the treaty, had been eliminated from the text of the treaty then in use in America. Thus, Lovell is referring to Art. 17 of the treaty as ratified (and to Art. 11...
9Patrick Henry to Virginia Delegates in Congress, 23 May 1780 (Madison Papers)
The legislature of Virginia in June 1779 ratified the treaties of alliance and commerce between the United States and France (
10Instructions Respecting a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the Netherlands, 29 December 1780 (Adams Papers)
between these United States and France, and being particularly attentive to the ninth, tenth and seventeenth articles of our treaty of Amity and Commerce with France numbered as they were finally ratified.