Americans Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and John Adams had negotiated and signed the treaty on Sept. 3, 1783, as well as British representative David Hartley, according to the National Archives.

The American negotiators were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Henry Laurens ... but the actual treaty was not signed until September 3, 1983. Then the treaty was shipped to America ...

Washington offered the vacant Chief Justice post to John Rutledge, who served temporarily until the Senate met to confirm his appointment. Noting his inflammatory speech against the Jay treaty ...