Treaty of Watertown
The Treaty of Watertown was the first foreign treaty concluded by the United States of America after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. It was signed on July 19, 1776, in the Edmund Fowle House in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts Bay and it established a military alliance between the United States and the St. John's and some of the Mi'kmaw bands against Great Britain for the early years of the American Revolutionary War. Seven Mi'kmaw bands chose to decline the American treaty. The Mi’kmaq People were in praxis with three virtues that are the supremacy of the Great Spirit, respect for Mother Earth, and people power that were based on their cultural ways of life before contact with early European settlers.
