hide Matching Documents

Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10. You can also browse the collection for June 3rd or search for June 3rd in all documents.

Your search returned 3 results in 2 document sections:

George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
Carolina were equally divided. The French minister now intervened, and on the twenty-seventh of May congress went back 27. o its resolve, that in no case, by any treaty of peace, should the common right of fishing be given Chap. IX.} 1779. June 3. up. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 161. On the third of June, Gerry, who was from Marblehead, again appeared as the champion of the American right to the fisheries on banks or coasts, as exercised during their political connection with third of June, Gerry, who was from Marblehead, again appeared as the champion of the American right to the fisheries on banks or coasts, as exercised during their political connection with Great Britain. He was in part supported by Sherman; Secret Journals of Congress, II. 162. but New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island alone sustained a right to the fisheries on the coasts of British provinces; and, though Pennsylvania came to their aid, the Gallican party, by a vote of seven states against the four, set aside the main question; so that congress refused even to stipulate for the free and peaceable use and exercise of the common right of fishing on the banks of Newfou
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 14: (search)
eedom from taxation except by their own legislature. This policy of moderation might have familiarized the Carolinians once more to the British government; but the proclamation was not communicated to Cornwallis; so that when, three weeks later, two leading men, one of whom had been in a high station and both principally concerned in the rebellion, went to that officer to surrender themselves under its provisions, he could only answer that he had no knowledge of its existence. On the third of June, Clinton, by a proclamation 3. which he alone signed, cut up British authority in Carolina by the roots. He required all the inhabitants of the province, even those outside of Charleston who were now prisoners on parole, to take an active part in securing the royal government. Should they neglect to return to their allegiance, so ran the proclamation, they will be treated as rebels to the government of the king. He never reflected that many who accepted protection from fear or conven