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Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeier (1735-1811) was a Prussian baron and son of minister Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeier. He served as the emissary of King Frederick II to the Dutch Republic from 1763 to 1788. During the 1785 U.S.-Prussian Treaty negotiations, Thulemeier collaborated with William Short and U.S. agent Charles-William-Frédéric Dumas to conclude the treaty.
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“——— Pitot Duhellés and Other Consulship Seekers to Benjamin Franklin, 28 January 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-39-02-0033. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 39, January 21 through May 15, 1783, ed. Ellen R. Cohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 76–87.]
“Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-17-02-0233. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 17, April–November 1785, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda A. Mathews, and Sara Martin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014, p. 427.]
George G. Shackleford, Jefferson’s Adoptive Son: The Life of William Short, 1759-1848 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky Press, 1993), passim.
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