1Enclosure: Answer to Question the 3d. Proposed by the President of the UStates, 2 May 1793 (Hamilton Papers)
The Treaties between the United States and France were made with His Most Christian Majesty, his heirs and successors. The Government of France which existed at the time those treaties were made, gave way, in the first instance to a new constitution, formed by the...
2From Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 30 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
This is presumably a reference to relations between the United States and France.
3To 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.
4To George Washington from Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas, 28 May 1785 (Washington Papers)
Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas (1725–1796), who was born of French parents in Germany and had been living in The Hague since 1756, was an agent in Holland during the American Revolution for both the United States and France. At this time he was the unofficial chargé d’affaires there for the United States. For details of his career, see
5To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 29 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce of February 1778, signed at the same time as the Treaty of Alliance between the United States and France, spelled out commercial relations between the two countries.
6To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1791 (Washington Papers)
...be subjected to all the duties which are there laid on the mass of foreign Vessels. . . . And consequently our own Vessels in the carrying Trade between the United States and France would be in a worse situation than French Vessels. . . . And if the principle of the Regulation cannot be deemed safe in a permanent view, it ought not to be admitted temporarily; for inconvenient precedents...
7To George Washington from Lafayette, 6 June 1791 (Washington Papers)
...Most intimate affection, of Common principles, and Common interest will Be Most Heartly Received in france, and on that Ground You may work Your plan, and Send it to france, with a private Copy for me. The United States and france Must Be one people, and so Begin the Confederation of all Nations who will assert their own Rights.
8Memorandum from Edmund Randolph, 17 May 1793 (Washington Papers)
For Article 17 of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France, signed in 1778, see
9To 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
10To George Washington from Veritas, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Veritas was referring to Article 22 of the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and France. For a different interpretation of this article and judicial consideration of this issue, see Justice John Jay’s “Charge to the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia,” 22 May, 1793, and...