1From Benjamin Franklin to John Pringle, 27 May 1762 (Franklin Papers)
...navigable waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans might be found somewhere north of...
2I. Charles Phelps’ State of His Case, March – May 1774 (Adams Papers)
...West bounded from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, within which Limits the Lands first...
3John Adams to Abigail Adams, 13 August 1776 (Adams Papers)
...South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, with the nearest Coasts of Europe...
4To George Washington from Joseph Barrell, 10 January 1779 (Washington Papers)
...; after the war, he financed maritime expeditions to the Pacific Ocean (see
5Motion Regarding the Western Lands, [6 September] 1780 (Madison Papers)
...which extended its western limit to the Pacific Ocean, or at least to the Mississippi River...
6From Samuel Huntington, enclosing Papers Relating to Western Claims by the States, 10 September 1780 (Jefferson Papers)
...limits that ran to the “South Sea” (Pacific Ocean) in the 17th century were legally...
...Chart of North and South America, including the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
8II. Arguments by James Wilson and William Samuel Johnson before the Court of Commissioners, [14–23 December 1782] (Jefferson Papers)
...extent of that Grant. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans even upon the coasts of them had been...
9To Benjamin Franklin from Lord Howe, [1 June 1784] (Franklin Papers)
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean … for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere … in...
10To Benjamin Franklin from [Noël-Jacques] Pissot, 3 July 1784 (Franklin Papers)
Voyage to the Pacific Ocean;