Treaty of Paris Proclamation

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Treaty of Paris Proclamation

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18558198

This proclamation, sent to Congress by the American negotiators, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay, announced the signing of a peace treaty with Great Britain. The treaty formally ended the American Revolutionary War.

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Jay, John, 1745-1829

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John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father, abolitionist, negotiator, and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783. He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States. He directed U.S. foreign policy for much of the 1780s and was an important leader of the Federalist Party after the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788. Jay was born into a wealthy family of merchants and...