Congress of the Confederation (January 14, 1784) ratified the peace treaty with Great Britain, which had been signed in Paris on September 3, 1783, thereby officially ending the Revolutionary War. The treaty began:
<In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,...and of the United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences....Done at Paris, this third day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
D. Hartley
John Adams
B. Franklin
John Jay.> 1784CC001
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Endnotes:
1784CC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Congress of the Confederation, January 14, 1784, under the Articles of Confederation, ratified the peace treaty with Great Britain, which had been signed in Paris on September 3, 1783, by D. Hartley, John Adams, B. Franklin, and John Jay, thereby officially ending the Revolutionary War. William M. Malloy, compiler, Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements between the United States of America and Other Powers, 1776-1909, 4 vols. (New York: Greenwood Press, 1910, 1968), 2:1786. Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., ed., American Historical Documents 1000-1904 (New York: P.F. Collier & Son Company, The Harvard Classics, 1910), Vol. 43, pp. 185-191. Gary DeMar, America's Christian History: The Untold Story (Atlanta, GA: American Vision Publishers, Inc., 1993), p. 84.