Adams Papers

The American Commissioners’ Provisional Ratification of the Moroccan-American Treaty, [1–25 January 1787]

The American Commissioners’ Provisional Ratification of the Moroccan-American Treaty

[1–25 January 1787]1

Now know Ye that We the said John Adams & Thomas Jefferson Ministers Plenipotentiary aforesaid do approve & conclude the said Treaty and every Article and Clause therein contained, reserving the same nevertheless to the United States in Congress assembled for their final Ratification.

In testimony whereof we have signed the same with our Names and Seals, at the Places of our respective residence and at the dates expressed under our signatures respectively.—

John Adams. [SEAL]
London January 25. 1787.2

Th: Jefferson [SEAL]
Paris January 1. 1787.3

MS (PCC, No. 91, I, f. 229).

1. Thomas Jefferson drafted the ratification, and fair copies were enclosed with his 20 Dec. 1786 letter to JA, above. Signed by JA, they were returned with his 25 Jan. 1787 letter to Jefferson, above. Copies of the ratification were then enclosed in the commissioners’ 27 Jan. letter to John Jay, below, and, together with the commissioners’ [27 Jan.] letter to Sidi Haj Tahar Ben Abdulhaq Fennish, also below, in Jefferson’s 18 Feb. letter to William Carmichael, but see also his letter of that date to Thomas Barclay (Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 11:163–165).

2. In JA’s hand.

3. In Jefferson’s hand.

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    1–25 January 1787

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    “The American Commissioners’ Provisional Ratification of the Moroccan-American Treaty, [1–25 January 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0297. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 18, December 1785–January 1787, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, p. 560.]