Alexander Hamilton Papers

Continental Congress Motion on Prohibition of Naval Forces on Great Lakes, 20 May 1783

Continental Congress
Motion on Prohibition of Naval Forces on Great Lakes1

[Philadelphia] May 20, 1783

That the said Ministers also endeavour to stipulate that neither party shall keep any naval force on the lakes on the Northern & Western Frontier.2

AD, Papers of the Continental Congress, National Archives.

1. H’s motion was one of several on this date suggesting provisions to be included in the final peace treaty.

2. The motion was referred to John Francis Mercer, Thomas FitzSimons, and Theodorick Bland (JCC description begins Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789 (Washington, 1904–1937). description ends , XXIV, 348).

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    Continental Congress Motion on Prohibition of Naval Forces on Great Lakes, 20 May 1783
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    “Continental Congress Motion on Prohibition of Naval Forces on Great Lakes, 20 May 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-03-02-0235. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 3, 1782–1786, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, p. 361.]