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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A January 1786 letter from London reports that negotiations between Great Britain and the United States are nearing conclusion. Key obstacles include Southern states' laws blocking pre-war debt recovery and New York's Trespass Act, which Britain demands repealed as treaty violations for evacuating Lake forts. Mr. Adams expected to concede.
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Extract of a letter from London (received by the packet) dated January 6, 1786.
"I HAVE the pleasure to inform you that I have just heard that the negociation between Great-Britain and the United States, is in a fair way of being soon brought to a conclusion; but few obstacles remaining. Those of the most consequence being-the laws made by some of the Southern States to obstruct the recovery of debts due to Merchants of Great-Britain, contracted before the war; and a law passed since the peace by the State of New-York, called the Trespass Act, which affects numbers of British subjects; the British Ministry regarding them as violations of the treaty, makes their repeal an express condition of the evacuation of the Forts on the Lakes. It is expected these points will be given up by Mr. Adams, they appearing so perfectly reasonable."
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London
Event Date
January 6, 1786
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negotiations nearing conclusion; expected repeal of obstructing laws in exchange for british evacuation of lake forts.
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Negotiation between Great-Britain and the United States is in a fair way of being soon brought to a conclusion with few obstacles remaining. Key issues: laws by Southern States obstructing recovery of pre-war debts to British merchants; New-York's Trespass Act affecting British subjects, viewed as treaty violations. British Ministry conditions forts evacuation on their repeal. Mr. Adams expected to concede these reasonable points.