[164] Pp. 10 ff.
[165] To General Sullivan, September, 1778.
[166] December 12, 1779.
[167] To President Reed, May 28, 1780.
[168] "Before York," October 12, 1781.
[169] To Lafayette, October 20, 1782.
[170] February 6, 1783.
[171] Sending him a farewell letter in which he said: "You may rest assured that your abilities and dispositions to serve this country were so well understood, and your service so properly appreciated that the residence of no public minister will ever be longer remembered or his absence more sincerely regretted. It will not be forgotten that you were a witness to the dangers, the sufferings, the exertions and the successes of the United States from the most perilous crises to the hour of triumph." February 7, 1788.
[172] They merely sanctioned some territorial exchanges and restitutions on both sides in the colonies, and stipulated that the British agent in Dunkirk, who had been expelled at the beginning of the war, would not return.
[173] March 29, 1783.