1From Benjamin Franklin to Cadwallader Colden, 5 June 1747 (Franklin Papers)
, 386–7, 393, 403. Great Britain and France signed a peace at Aix-la-Chapelle the next year.
2Form of Association, 24 November 1747 (Franklin Papers)
shall order otherwise) until some more effectual Provision be made to answer the same good Ends and Purposes, or until Peace shall be established between Great Britain, and France and Spain, and no longer.
3To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 24 November 1757 (Franklin Papers)
The Contest in America between Great Britain and France
4The Interest of Great Britain Considered, [17 April 1760] (Franklin Papers)
. It is a great mistake to imagine that the American country in question between Great Britain and France, is claimed as the property of any individuals or publick body in America, or that the possession of it by Great Britain, is likely, in any lucrative view, to redound at all to the advantage of any...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Isaac Norris, 1 May 1761 (Franklin Papers)
, 208–25), but nothing was known of them in Philadelphia at the time Norris was writing. Preliminary articles between Great Britain and France were not signed until Nov. 3, 1762.
6From Benjamin Franklin to Joshua Babcock, 10 December 1761 (Franklin Papers)
Negotiations between Great Britain and France, conducted simultaneously in London and Paris during the late spring and the summer of 1761, were broken off in September. A proposed general congress of all the warring powers at Augsburg never met. Gipson,
7“Benevolus”: On the Propriety of Taxing America, [11 April 1767] (Franklin Papers)
...1713, but its boundaries had never been clearly defined. Following the War of the Austrian Succession, terminated by the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, extended but fruitless negotiations took place between Great Britain and France to settle this and other matters of disagreement; conflicts in the area of Nova Scotia were a major cause of the hostilities that ushered in the Seven...
8I. A Plan of Treaties, 18 June 1776 (Adams Papers)
, p. 109, contains the first four articles and part of the fifth of the Treaty of Reswick, concluded between Great Britain and France on 20 Sept. 1697. Art. I contains much of the phrasing used in the preamble to the treaty plan, and it is probable that ...of Navigation and Commerce signed at Utrecht on 11 April 1713 by Great Britain and France; Art. VIII of the Marine Treaty concluded by...
9VII. The Constitution as Adopted by the Convention, [29 June 1776] (Jefferson Papers)
...shall in all other respects stand as fixed by the Charter of King James the first, in the Year one thousand six hundred and nine, and by the publick Treaty of Peace between the Courts of Great Britain and France in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty three; Unless by act of this legislature, one or more Territories shall hereafter be laid off, and Governments established...
10To Benjamin Franklin from David Hartley, 15 May 1778 (Franklin Papers)
...Idea goes to the preservation of peace universally if it can be done with the honour and safety of my own Country and of America. If America be independent all Cause of war ceases between Great Britain and France. America if declared independent can have no wish or interest to be dragged into a war on account of France if they are determined upon a war at all events with Great Britain. Such...