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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 9: (search)
ong exclusively to the English; and the Americans have no pretension whatever to share in them. Vergennes to Luzerne, 25 Sept., 1779. But they had hitherto almost alone engaged in the fisheries on the coast of Nova Scotia and in the gulf of St. Lawrence; deeming themselves to have gained a right to them by exclusive and immemorial usage. Further, the New England men had planned and had alone furnished land forces for the first reduction of Cape Breton, and had assisted in the acquisitionfifth degree of latitude. The right to the fisheries was long under discussion, which ended with the vote that the common right of the United States to fish on the 22. coasts, bays, and banks of Nova Scotia, the banks of Newfoundland and gulf of St. Lawrence, the straits of Labrador and Belle Isle, should in no case be given up. Secret Journals of Congress, II. 145. On the twenty-fourth, ten states against Penn- 24. sylvania alone, New Hampshire and Connecticut being divided, refused to in
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
ke of the Woods. The British commissioners denied to the Americans the right of drying fish on Newfoundland. Nov. This was, after a great deal of conversation, agreed to by John Adams as well as his colleagues, upon condition that the American fishermen should be allowed to dry their fish on any unsettled parts of the coast of Nova Scotia. Franklin said further: I observe as to catching fish you mention only the banks of Newfoundland. Why not all other places, and among others the gulf of St. Lawrence? Are you afraid there is not fish enough, or that we should catch too many, at the same time that you know that we shall bring the greatest part of the money we get for that fish to Great Britain to pay for your manufactures? Lansdowne House Mss. And this advice was embodied in the new article on the fisheries. On the fourth of November, Adams and Jay defin- 4. itively overruled the objections of Franklin to the recognition by treaty of the validity of debts contracted before