John Adams, a Character Sketch; With Supplementary Essay
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But the United States claimed 94 JOHN ADAMS. as belonging to Georgia the shore of the great river as far south as what is now the southern line of the state of Mississippi. Spain set up a counter-claim of nearly all west of the Alleghenies, and during this negotiation sent a military expedition from St. Louis across Illinois, and built a small fort at Niles, Mich., so as to claim actual occupa- tion. Vergennes supported Spain, and said the Ameri- can claims were too extensive and unjust. Jay ha...d been growing more and more suspicious of the ally under whose thumb the commission was placed; and although as a New Yorker he had no appreciation of the value of the West and of the navigation of the river, the value evidently put upon these by the other party changed his views. The eastern edge of Maine was in question, but was more easily proved: so England gave up the boundary by the Kennebec or the Penobscot, and accepted the St. Croix. Franklin had met the English claims by a sug- gestion that England ought to give us Canada and Nova Scotia.
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