rity to follow within the Lines any
occupation which he may think proper." Given under my Hand at
Headquarters, Phillipsburg, the 30th day of June, 1799.

H. CLINTON.
By his Excellency's Commander
JOHN SMITH, Sec.

Journal of Continental Congress, II, 26; Van Tyne, _American
Revolution_.

[7] Force, _American Archives_, I, 486, Fifth Series.

[8] _Journal of Continental Congress_, II, 26.

[9] Ramsay, _History of South Carolina_, Edition, 1809, I, 474.

[10] Moore's _Historical Notes_, 14; _Journal of Negro History_, Vol.
I, p. 117.

[11] _Jefferson's Works_, Vol. II, p. 426.

[12] Sparks, _Washington's Works_, III, 218.

[13] Channing's _History of the United States_, Vol. III, pp. 348-369.

[14] _American Historical Association Report_, Vol. I, p. 273.

[15] Article 7, Treaty of Paris.--"There shall be a firm and perpetual
peace between his Brittanic Majesty and the said States, and between
the subjects of the one and the citizens of the other, wherefore all
hostilities both by sea and land shall from henceforth cease: All
prisoners on both sides shall be set at liberty, and his Brittanic
Majesty shall with all convenient speed, and without causing any
destruction or carrying away any Negroes or other property of the
American inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons and fleets
from the said United States, and from every port, place and harbour
within the same; leaving in all fortifications the American artillery
that may be therein; and shall also order and cause all archives,
records, deeds and papers belonging to any of the said states or their
citizens which in the course of the war may have fallen into the hands
of his officers to be forthwith restored and delivered to the proper
states and persons to whom they belong."

McDonald, _Documentary Source Book of American History_, p. 208.

[16] _American Historical Association Report, 1874_, p. 421. Waits,
_American State Papers_, Vol. I, p. 279.

[17] _Journal of Negro History_, Vol. II, pp. 411-422.

[18] Sparks, _Washington_, Vol. VIII, Appendix, p. 544.

[19] Washington to Daniel Parker in Ford's _Washington's Writing_, X,
246-247.

[20] Ford's Edition of _Jefferson's Writings_, p. 127.

[21] _Journal of Negro History_, Vol. II, p. 417.

[22] Ford, _Washington's Writings_, X, 241-243.

[23] _Journal of Negro History_, II, 418.

[24] _Diplomatic Correspondence_, Vol. XI, p. 335.

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