Thomas' Almanack for 1784

ARTICLES agreed upon and between RIHCARD OSWALD, Esquire, the Commissioner of his Britannick Majesty for the treating of Peace with the Commissioners of the United States of America, in behalf of his said Majesty, on the one part:

And JOHN ADAMS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JOHN JAY and HENRY LAURENS, Esquires, four of the Commissioners of the said States, for treating of Peace with the Commissioner of his said Majesty, on their behalf, on the other part, 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.

WHEREAS reciprocal advantages and mutual conveniences are found by experience, to form the only permanent foundation of peace and friendship between States; it is agreed to form the articles of the proposed treaty on such principles of liberal equity and reciprocity, as that partial advantages, those seeds of discord, being excluded, such a beneficial and satisfactory intercourse between the two countries may be established, as to promise and secure to both perpetual peace and harmony.

ARTICLE I. His Britannick Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, 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, proprietary, and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof; 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.

ART. II. From the north-west angle of Nova-Scotia, viz. That angle which is formed by a line drawn due north, from the source of St. Croix river to the