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Item Title
By the United States in Congress assembled, a proclamation : Whereas in pursuance of a plenipotentiary commission, given on the 28th day of September, 1782, to the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, a treaty of amity and commerce between His Majesty the King of Sweden and the United States of America, was on the 3rd day of April, 1783, concluded ...
Other Titles
Treaties, etc. United States, 1783 Apr. 3
Created/Published
Philadelphia : Printed by David C. Claypoole, [1783]
Notes
Includes the full text of the treaty.
Signed: Done in Congress at Princeton, this twenty-fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... Elias Boudinot, president. Charles Thomson, secretary.
Text in five columns.
Evans 18245
Journals of the Continental Congress, 415
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4343
LC copy annotated on verso: Treaty with Sweden.
Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress.
Subjects
Foreign trade regulation--United States.
United States--Foreign economic relations--Sweden.
Maritime law--United States.
Broadsides--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1783.
Proclamations--United States--1783.
Treaties--United States--1783.
Treaties--Sweden--1783.
United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Broadsheet format (Printing)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1783.
Related Names
Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821.
Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824.
Claypoole, David C., 1757?-1849, printer.
Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Medium
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 62 x 45 cm.
Call Number
Cont Cong no. 87
Digital ID
bdsdcc 08701 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.08701