Treaty of Paris
9/3/1783
Soon after the completion of the preliminary treaty of peace, the British government fell and a new round of negotiations started. John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and new British negotiator David Hartley revisited many of the old issues thought to have been settled. Signed on September 3, 1783, and ratified by Congress on January 14, 1784, the Treaty of Paris formally ended the Revolutionary War and established the United States as an independent and sovereign nation.
National Archives, General Records of the United States Government
