Summary

Devin Sohi

Clues

Clues:
This object is a wax seal stamp.
The image on the face is the Boylston family seal.
Was said to exist in 1783.
Was used to stamp next to a signature on the Treaty of Paris

Significance and Works Cited

Significance:
The object: A wax seal

Description: the Boylston family seal.

President: John Adams

Presidential Role & Contribution:
The presidential action of signing a treaty is the presidential role of Chief Diplomat.
Adams used this seal to sign the Treaty of Paris to end the Revolutionary War. He his mother’s family seal (the Boylstons’) because the Adams family did not have one of their own. This seal is now being held by the National Park Service in Massachusetts.
(Public Domain).

Significance:

"I chose this artifact because it represents the end of the Revolutionary War."

Works Cited:
Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service). (n.d.). Retrieved February 27, 2017, from https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=1F4ACD97-155D-451F-672354DA25AEE0C7

Avalon Project - British-American Diplomcay : The Paris Peace Treaty of September 30, 1783. (2008). Retrieved April 09, 2017, from http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/paris.asp

Picture

            <p class="detail-caption"><strong>Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service). (n.d.). Retrieved February 27, 2017, from https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery.htm?id=1F4ACD97-155D-451F-672354DA25AEE0C7</strong></p>

1. WAX STAMP