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Adams, John (1735-1826, designated as JA in The Adams Papers):
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Diplomacy, 1781-1783, Joint Commission to Negotiate Anglo-American Peace (2d Joint Commission)
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Digges' mission to meet with22
progress of and prospects for18
U.S. admission to and recognition by Armed Neutrality and15
Britain needs to recognize U.S.14
Fitzherbert's commission14
determined to communicate British peace proposals to Franklin and Vergennes8
membership on commission substituted by Congress for sole power to negotiate treaty of peace7
negotiation and signing of the Preliminary Treaty6
expresses wish to write the history of his diplomatic service and offers his resignation2
and commemorative treaty seal1
AFC05
Anglo-Amer. trade's effect on1
PJA13
appointment to1
PJA13
approaches to, regarding peace terms1
PJA12
commission1
PJA11
commissioners rather than Congress should negotiate peace1
PJA12
Congress creates1
PJA13
Congress expects to participate in1
PJA13
consultation and concurrence with wishes of French court prescribed1
AFC04
criticizes Vergennes' policy toward1
PJA13
Dana as secretary to1
PJA11
definitive treaty signed unchanged, “so We have negotiated here, these Six Months for nothing”1
AFC05
discusses with Bleiswyck1
PJA13
Dumas on JA's role1
PJA12
expects negotiations to be “another Furnace of Affliction”1
AFC05
Franklin desires at Paris for1
PJA13
Franklin wishes was at Paris for peace negotiations1
PJA12
French inability to control negotiations of1
PJA11
from duty and necessity has “landed the Public safe and glorious in the Harbour of Peace”1
AFC05
his availability to negotiate treaty rumored in England1
AFC04
H. Laurens on JA's power to negotiate1
PJA12
imperial courts' attitude toward U.S. recognition1
PJA13
inability to read instructions1
PJA12
Lafayette cautions against Digges1
PJA12
Laurens on as peace commissioner1
PJA13
Livingston requests information from1
PJA13
meets with D. Hartley at Paris1
PJA12
misdates conversation with S. Hartley on peace negotiations1
PJA12
names his home “Peace field, in commemoration of the Peace which I assisted in making”1
DJA03
negotiation and signing of the Definitive Treaty1
DJA03
newspaper reports on peace negotiations1
PJA12
obstacles to going to Paris for1
PJA13
on appointment of secretary for1
PJA12
on British knowledge of joint commission and its purpose1
PJA12
on H. Laurens as joint commissioner1
PJA12
on implications of accepting Austro-Russian mediation1
PJA12
on powers as joint commissioner1
PJA12
on recognition of Amer. independence as sine qua non for peace negotiations1
PJA12
on significance of Austro-Russian recognition of U.S. as a power at war1
PJA12
peace as only British option1
PJA12
possible travel to Vienna1
AFC05
pride deters Brit. from1
PJA13
proposals in A Memorial to the Sovereigns of Europe1
PJA13
role in keeping fisheries and western lands1
AFC05
secrecy of negotiations1
PJA13
seeks territorial concessions in peace negotiations1
PJA12
sends “Peace Journal” to Congress1
AFC05
takes pride in U.S.-British peace1
AFC05
Thaxter as secretary1
AFC05
urges Digges to meet with Franklin and Vergennes1
PJA12
will meet only with British plenipotentiaries1
PJA12
wishes to return to Massachusetts after1
PJA13
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