[969] Mascarene in a letter to Shirley, April 6, 1748, undertakes to show the difficulties of composing the jealousies of the English towards the Acadians. Mass. Hist. Coll., vi. 120.
[970] In Harv. Coll. library “Collection of Nova Scotia maps.”
[971] Cf. Lawrence to Monckton, 28 March, 1755, in Aspinwall Papers (Mass. Hist. Coll., xxxix. 214).
[972] The annexed plan is from the Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760, as published by the Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec (re-impression), 1873, p. 45. The same Mémoires has a plan (p. 40) of Fort Lawrence. Various plans and views of Chignectou are noted in the Catalogue of the King’s Maps (British Museum), i. 239. A “Large and particular plan of Shegnekto Bay and the circumjacent country, with forts and settlements of the French till dispossessed by the English, June, 1755, drawn on the spot by an officer,” was published Aug. 16, 1755, by Jefferys, and is given in his General Topography of North America and West Indies, London, 1766. Cf. J. G. Bourinot’s “Some old forts by the sea,” in Trans. Royal Soc. of Canada, i. sect. 2, p. 71.
[973] A contemporary account of these Indians, by a French missionary among them, was printed in London in 1758, as An account of the customs and manners of the Micmakis and Maricheets savage nations now dependent on the government of Cape Breton. (Field, Ind. Bibliog., no. 1,062; Quaritch, 1885, no. 29,984, £4 4s.)
[974] The Life and Sufferings of Henry Grace, Reading, 1764 [Harv. Coll. lib. 5315.5], gives the experience of one of Lawrence’s men, captured by the Indians at this time.
[975] The French ministry were advising Vaudreuil, “Nothing better can be done than to foment this war of the Indians on the English, which at least delays their settlements.” (N. Y. Col. Docs., x. 949.)
[976] Cf. references in Barry’s Mass., ii. 199. The journal of Winslow during the siege in the summer and autumn of 1755 is printed from the original MS. in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, in the Nova Scotia Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. iv. Tracts of the time indicate the disparagement which the provincial men received during these events from the regular officers. Cf. Account of the present state of Nova Scotia in two letters to a noble lord,—one from a gentleman in the navy lately arrived from thence; the other from a gentleman who long resided there, London, 1756. Cf. also French policy defeated, being an account of all the hostile proceedings of the French against the British colonies in North America for the last seven years, ... with an account of the naval engagement of Newfoundland and the taking of the forts in the Bay of Fundy, London, 1755. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,060.)
[977] On the 10th of Aug., 1754, Lawrence had sent a message to the Acadians, who had gone over to the French, that he should still hold them to their oaths, and this, as well as a letter of Le Loutre to Lawrence, Aug. 26, 1754, will be found in the Parkman MSS. in the Mass. Hist. Society, New France, i. pp. 271, 281.
[978] Minot, without knowledge of these documents, says: “They [the Acadians] maintained, with some exceptions, the character of neutrals.”