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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 29: (search)
hermen 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 the war. Pluming himself exceedingly on having gained this concession, Strachey wrote to the secretary of state that Jay and Adams would likewise assent to the indemnification of the refugees rather than break off the treaty upon such a point. S