The treaty, named for US Secretary of State Daniel Webster and United Kingdom Privy Counsellor Lord Ashburton, ended the Aroostook War and also set the US–Canada border further west.
Alexander Baring refers to a settlement of about 30 Quaker families located near the center of Township 12.
A new British administration, friendlier to the United States than the previous one, sent Lord Ashburton to Washington to negotiate directly with Webster, and Everett's role was reduced to acquiring documents from British records, and pressing the American case to the Foreign Office.
John Hope carried on the Hope & co. family business in Amsterdam together with Alexander Baring and Adriaan van der Hoop, young partners in the firm.
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Ann Louisa Bingham Baring (born 1782) was the wife of Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton and first child of William Bingham and Anne (Willing) Bingham.
Francis' second son Alexander, working for Hope & Co., made the arrangements in Paris with François Barbé-Marbois, Director of the Public Treasury.