1Levi Lincoln’s Opinion on the Betsy Cathcart, [3 July 1801] (Jefferson Papers)
: the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France. The article referred to by Lincoln, Article 19 when the treaty was negotiated, became Article 17 after other articles were deleted during the ratification process (same, 2:16–17, 32–3).
2To Thomas Jefferson from Meriwether Lewis, 3 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
So soon Sir, as you deem it expedient to promulge the late treaty, between the United States and France I would be much obliged by your directing an official copy of it to be furnished me, as I think it probable that the present inhabitants of Louisiana, from such an evidence of their having become the Citizens of...