Letters to American Commissioners
American Commissioners of the Preliminary Peace Agreement with Great Britain, also known as the Treaty of Paris, is an unfinished 1783 painting by Benjamin West depicting the United States delegation that negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the American Revolutionary War. Peace negotiations began in Paris on June 25, 1783, and the eventual signing of the treaty took place on September 3, 1783 at the Hotel York at 56 rue Jacob. The green drapery in the painting's background and the distant landscape with a classical colonnaded building emphasize the scene's formality.
James Moylan to American Commissioners, July 3, 1778
L’Orient 3d July 1778 Honorable Gentlemen The Frigate Boston Cap. S. Tucker is return’d to this port yesterday. On her Cruise she had taken four prizes, one of which loaded…
Thomas Simpson to American Commissioners, July 3, 1778
Titus Ogden to American Commissioners, July 7, 1778
John Bondfield to American Commissioners, July 7, 1778
Francis Coffyn to American Commissioners, July 7, 1778
Mackenzie & Cie Poreau to American Commissioners, July 7, 1778
Musco Livingston to American Commissioners, July 8, 1778
Paris 8 July 1778. Gentlemen Inclos’d is A List of the prisoners on board the Boston, including those which he knows Capt. Tucker would wish to Exchange. 9 I have…
Samuel Tucker to American Commissioners, July 12, 1778
John Bondfield to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778
Bordeau 16 July 1778 Honorable Sirs Permit me to lay before your honors the foregoing State which by your interpossion we flatter ourselves may be relieved. 5 I am most…
John Paul Jones to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778
[July 16, 1778] Gentlemen When I took Lieutenant Simpsons Parole I did not expect to have been long absent from America: but as circumstances have now rendred the time of…
Jean Baptiste Le Roy to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778
16 Juillet 1778 Messieurs Les Députés du Congrès sont instamment pries de tirer d’inquiétude un Pere et une Mere qui sont dans les plus vives allarmes sur leur fils, dont…
Jean-Daniel Schweighauser to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778
July 16 [1778] Honorable Gentlemen! Beging leave to refer you to mine of the 9 inst. 1 I have now to inform you that Capt. Whipple at his return to…
Jonathan Jr Williams to American Commissioners, July 16, 1778
Passy 16 July 1778. Honourable Gentlemen In consequence of the Remittance made to me by Mr. Delap of Bordeaux 2 I have written the inclosed Letter 3 to the officers…
Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to American Commissioners, July 21, 1778
Hezekiah Ford to American Commissioners, July 21, 1778
Jersey. July. 21st. 1778 Honoured Sirs In my Passage to Virginia, on Board a small Cutter, I had the Misfortune to be taken, and carried into Jersey. And as you…
Musco Livingston to American Commissioners, July 21, 1778
James Moylan to American Commissioners, July 22, 1778
L’Orient 22d. July 1778 Honorable Gentlemen Mr. Bingham of Martinico inclosed me the letter that accompanys this, which I received this post. 7 As I presume he gives you the…
Thomas Simpson to American Commissioners, July 27, 1778
Charles-Guillaume-Frédéric Dumas to American Commissioners, July 28, 1778
Peter Collas to American Commissioners, August 1, 1778
Passy, August 1, 1778 Gentlemen, As I late master of the brigg Triton belonging to the United States of America which was Captur’d by the Enemy within bell Isle, On…
James Moylan to American Commissioners, August 1, 1778
Rodolphe-Ferdinand Grand to American Commissioners, August 1, 1778
[before August 28, 1778?] 5 Le Congrés a authorisé ses Comissionaires a emprunter en Europe 2 millions Stl. soit 46 millions argent de france remboursable dans 10 ans a l’interret…