[198] Moïse des Derniers, in Le Canada Français, i. 118.
[199] Journal de Franquet, Part II.
[200] Description de l’Acadie, avec le Nom des Paroisses et le Nombre des Habitants, 1748.
[201] Shirreff to K. Gould, agent of Philips’s Regiment, March, 1745.
[202] Shirley to Newcastle, 14 December, 1745.
[203] Ibid., 10 May, 1746.
[204] Ibid., 8 July, 1747.
[205] Bedford to Newcastle, 11 September, 1747.
[206] Knowles to Newcastle, 8 November, 1746.
[207] Shirley says that the indiscriminate removal of the Acadians would be “unjust” and “too rigorous.” Knowles had proposed to put Catholic Jacobites from the Scotch Highlands into their place. Shirley thinks this inexpedient, but believes that Protestants from Germany and Ulster might safely be trusted. The best plan of all, in his opinion, is that of “treating the Acadians as subjects, confining their punishment to the most guilty and dangerous among ’em, and keeping the rest in the country and endeavoring to make them useful members of society under his Majesty’s Government.” Shirley to Newcastle, 21 November, 1746. If the Newcastle Government had vigorously carried his recommendations into effect, the removal of the Acadians in 1755 would not have taken place.