September 3: Adams, Franklin, and John Jay sign the Treaty of Paris ... Adams will attempt to negotiate commercial treaties with Tripoli, Portugal, and Great Britain, but they also take a garden ...

Challenges John Adams was in the shadow of George Washington, and he knew it. He served one term as president. The true test of his presidency came in the aftermath of the Jay Treaty, which Washington ...

In 1783 he, together with Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, negotiated the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War. In 1779 Adams wrote the Constitution of the Commonwealth of ...