[989] Minot, i. 220.
[990] Rameau (La France aux Colonies, p. 97) allows Raynal’s description to be a forced fantasy to point a moral; but he contends for a basis of fact in it. Cf. Antoine Marie Cerisier’s Remarques sur les erreurs de l’histoire philosphique et politique de Mr. Guillaume Thomas Raynal, par rapport aux affaires de l’Amérique septentrionale, Amsterdam, 1783.
[991] The General History of the Late War, London, 1763, etc.
[992] A Brief State of the Services and Expenses of the Massachusetts Bay, London, 1765, p. 17.
[993] Hist. of Mass. Bay, iii. 39.
[994] Massachusetts, ch. i. x.
[995] Vol. IV. p. 156. Cf. Morgan, Bibliotheca Canadensis, p. 168.
[996] Cf. Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 123. This journal is in three volumes, the first opening with a letter of proposals by Winslow, addressed to Shirley, followed by a copy of Winslow’s commission as lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 10, 1755. Transcripts then follow of instructions, letters, accounts, orders, rosters, log-books, reports, down to Jan., 1756. This volume is mostly, if not wholly, in Winslow’s own hand. It has been printed in vol. iii. of the Nova Scotia Hist. Soc. Collections, beginning with a letter from Grand Pré, Aug. 22, 1755. The second volume (Feb.-Aug., 1756) has a certificate that it is, “to the best of my skill and judgment, a true record of original papers committed to my care for that purpose.” This is signed “Henry Leddel, Secretary to General Winslow.” The third volume (Aug.-Dec., 1756) is similarly certified. There is in the Mass. Hist. Soc. another collection of Winslow’s papers (cf. Proc., iii. 92) covering 1737-1766, being mostly of a routine military character.
[997] Compare the enumeration of MSS. on Acadia, as indexed in the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament, Toronto, 1858, p. 1451. There are preserved in the office of the registrar of the Province of Quebec ten volumes of MS. copies of documents relating to the history of Canada, covering many pertaining to Acadia. A list of their contents was printed in 1883, entitled Réponse à un ordre de la chambre, demandant copie de la liste des documents se rapportant à l’histoire du Canada, copiés et conservés au département du régistraire de la Province de Québec. J. Blanchet, Secrétaire. Cf. “Evangeline and the Archives of Nova Scotia,” in Trans. Lit. and Hist. Soc. of Quebec, 1869-70.
[998] Orig. ed. (1852), iv. 206. In writing his first draft of the transaction in 1852, Bancroft, referring seemingly to Haliburton’s statement, says: “It has been supposed that these records of the council are no longer in existence; but I have authentic copies of them.” (Orig. ed., iv. 200).