[12] Sparks, Washington's Works, III, 218.
[13] Channing's History of the United States, Vol. III, pp. 348-369.
[14] American Historical Association Report, Vol. I, p. 273.
[15] Article 7, Treaty of Paris.—"There shall be a firm and perpetual peace between his Brittanic Majesty and the said States, and between the subjects of the one and the citizens of the other, wherefore all hostilities both by sea and land shall from henceforth cease: All prisoners on both sides shall be set at liberty, and his Brittanic Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction or carrying away any Negroes or other property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons and fleets from the said United States, and from every port, place and harbour within the same; leaving in all fortifications the American artillery that may be therein; and shall also order and cause all archives, records, deeds and papers belonging to any of the said states or their citizens which in the course of the war may have fallen into the hands of his officers to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper states and persons to whom they belong."
McDonald, Documentary Source Book of American History, p. 208.
[16] American Historical Association Report, 1874, p. 421. Waits, American State Papers, Vol. I, p. 279.
[17] Journal of Negro History, Vol. II, pp. 411-422.
[18] Sparks, Washington, Vol. VIII, Appendix, p. 544.
[19] Washington to Daniel Parker in Ford's Washington's Writing, X, 246-247.
[20] Ford's Edition of Jefferson's Writings, p. 127.