371Conversation with George Beckwith, [22 March–April 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
...1787 Beckwith spent six months observing events in the United States, and in 1788 he returned to study the effects which the adoption of the Constitution might have on relations between the United States and Great Britain. He returned to England late in 1788 and was still there when Grenville, in August, 1789, received news of the passage of tariff and tonnage acts by the recently assembled...
372From George Washington to the United States Senate, 9 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
...the United States and Canada. The fact that Mitchell’s map designated the eastern stream as the St. Croix placed the boundary at that river, a point that remained in dispute between the United States and Great Britain. A mixed commission appointed under the terms of the Jay Treaty defined the boundary in 1798 as the western stream, known locally as the Schoodic. As early as 1785, in a report...
373To Alexander Hamilton from John Jay, 15 December 1789 (Hamilton Papers)
Lee’s charge that Deane had dishonestly profited from his dealings with the French. Two years later he returned to Europe, and in 1781 he urged reconciliation between the United States and Great Britain. He was accused of being a Tory, and until his death on September 23, 1789, he lived in Europe in exile.
374To George Washington from James Boyd, 27 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
...formed the boundary between the United States and Canada. The fact that Mitchell’s map designated the eastern stream as the St. Croix placed the boundary at that river, a point that remained in dispute between the United States and Great Britain until a mixed commission appointed under the terms of the Jay Treaty defined the boundary in 1798 as the western stream, known locally as the...
375Conversation with George Beckwith, [October 1789] (Hamilton Papers)
United States and Great Britain. He returned to England late in 1788 and was still there when Grenville, in August, 1789, received news of the passage of tariff and tonnage acts by the recently assembled American Congress. Beckwith was sent back to...Until Jay’s Treaty went into operation in 1796 there was no commercial treaty between the United States and Great Britain.
376Enclosure I: Report of the Governor of Georgia on Confiscation Acts, 15 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
...the several papers which were then read to wit, the Auditors letter, the report of the Committee of Council, the Act of banishment and confiscation, the definitive Treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, the Acts of Assembly of the 13th. February 1786, and of the 10th. February 1787, together with the resolutions of Congress of the 21st. March 1787, and their letter to...
377Continental Congress. Report on the Navigation of the Mississippi, [16 September 1788] (Hamilton Papers)
...Tennessee and Kentucky during the seventeen-eighties, the question of the navigation of the Mississippi River became an urgent one. The treaty between the United States and Great Britain had stipulated that both countries should enjoy free navigation of the river, but in 1784 a proclamation by the Spanish king ended the right of free navigation, and Spanish officials at New Orleans...
378New York Assembly. Motion that a Committee be Appointed to Consider a Letter from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, [23 … (Hamilton Papers)
...requesting information on the compliance of New York with a congressional resolution of January 14, 1784, which called on the several states to repeal all laws inconsistent with the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain. In reply Clinton sent Jay extracts from the journals of the Assembly and Senate of March 30 and 31, 1784. The resolution enclosed by Clinton reads...
379Extracts from John Jay’s Report on Violations of the Treaty of Peace, 13 October 1786 (Jay Papers)
. Whether any & which, of the Acts enumerated in the List of Grievances do violate the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain?—
380Abigail Adams to John Quincy Adams, 23 August 1785 (Adams Papers)
...first conference with William Pitt the following day, when he presented his proposals for settling the issues that remained outstanding between the United States and Great Britain: the British army’s occupation of the forts in the Northwest, British trade restrictions, compensation for slaves carried off by the British army during the war, and American debts due to British creditors. But he...