John Quincy Adams: Diary Entries on the Adams-Onís Treaty

Glossary

• Arkansas the Arkansas River, a Mississippi tributary that flows in an easterly and southeasterly direction from present-day Colorado
• De Neuville Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville (1776–1857), French ambassador to the United States from 1816 to 1821
• the Floridas present-day Florida, at that time divided into the provinces of East and West Florida
• Red River a tributary of the Mississippi on the border between Texas and Oklahoma
• Rio del Norte the Rio Grande river
• Sabine the Sabine River, on the border between present-day Texas and Louisiana
• South Sea the Pacific Ocean
• Spanish Minister Luis de Onís Gonzalez Vara (1762–1827), Spanish foreign minister to the United States from 1809 to 1819