****** THE PARIS PEACE TREATY (PEACE TREATY of 1783):  ******

     In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.

     It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts 
of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by 
the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, 
defender of the faith, duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, arch-
treasurer and prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc., and 
of the United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings 
and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good 
correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore, 
and to establish such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse , 
between the two countries upon the ground of reciprocal advantages 
and mutual convenience as may promote and secure to both perpetual 
peace and harmony; and having for this desirable end already laid 
the foundation of peace and reconciliation by the Provisional 
Articles signed at Paris on the 30th of November 1782, by the 
commissioners empowered on each part, which articles were agreed 
to be inserted in and constitute the Treaty of Peace proposed to 
be concluded between the Crown of Great Britain and the said United 
States, but which treaty was not to be concluded until terms of 
peace should be agreed upon between Great Britain and France and 
his Britannic Majesty should be ready to conclude such treaty 
accordingly; and the treaty between Great Britain and France 
having since been concluded, his Britannic Majesty and the United 
States of America, in order to carry into full effect the 
Provisional Articles above mentioned, according to the tenor 
thereof, have constituted and appointed	"!Q
is to say his 
Britannic Majesty on his part, David Hartley, Esqr., member of 
the Parliament of Great Britain, and the said United States on 
their part, John Adams, Esqr.,bQ
a commissioner of the United 
States of America at the court of Versailles, late delegate in 
Congress from the state of Massachusetts, and chief justice of
the said state, and minister plenipotentiary of the said United
States to their high mightinesses the States General of the 
United Netherlands; Benjamin Franklin, Esqr., late delegate
in Congress from the state of Pennsylvania, president of the 
convention of the said state, and minister plenipotentiary from 
the United States of America at the court of Versailles; John 
Jay, Esqr., late president of Congress and chief justice of the 
state of New York, and 61+kQr plenipotentiary c"+)e.%

United States at the court of Madrid; to be plenipotentiaries 
for the concluding and signing the present definitive treaty; 
who after having reciprocally communicated their respective 
full powers have agreed upon and confirmed the following articlY.)x

Article 1:
     His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, 
viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and 
Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, 
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina 
and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that 
he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and 
successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, 
Šand territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.

Article 2:

     And that all disputes which might arise in future on the 
subject of the boundaries of the said United States may be 
prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following 
are and shall be their boundaries, viz.; from the northwest 
angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that nagle which is formed by a line 
drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the 
highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers 
that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those 
which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head 
of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river 
to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude; from thence by a 
line due west on said latitude until it strikes the river 
Iroquois or Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river 
into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it 
strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake 
Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake 
Erie, through thYj%1
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