[1009] Akins’ Select. from Pub. Doc., 277; Smith’s Acadia, 219.
[1010] A letter from a gentleman in Nova Scotia to a person of distinction in the continent, describing the present state of government in that colony, 1736, p. 7.
[1011] Boston Transcript, Feb. 11, 1885. In his Acadia, p. 256, he says 15,000 were “forcibly extirpated” [sic], but he probably includes later deportations, mainly from the northern side of the Bay of Fundy.
[1012] Une Colonie féodale en Amérique (Paris, 1877). To this 6,000 Rameau adds 4,000 as the number previously removed to the islands of the gulf, 4,000 as having crossed the neck to come under French protection, and 2,000 as having escaped the English,—thus making a total of 16,000, which he believes to have been the original population of the peninsula. Cf. on Rameau, Daniel’s Nos Gloires, ii. 345
[1013] See Lawrence’s letter to Monckton in the “Aspinwall Papers,” Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xxxix. 214
[1014] Lawrence’s letter to Hancock, Sept. 10, 1755, in N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1876, p. 17.
[1015] There are large extracts from these Archives in the Winslow Papers (Mass. Hist. Soc.). North Amer. Rev., 1848, p. 231. There is usually scant, if any, mention of them in the published town histories of Massachusetts. In Bailey’s Andover (p. 297) there is some account of those sent to that town, and a copy of a petition (Mass. Archives, xxiii. 49) from those in Andover and adjacent towns to the General Court, urging that their children should not be bound out to service. Cf. also Aaron Hobart’s Abington, App. F., and “Lancaster in Acadie and Acadiens in Lancaster,” by H. S. Nourse, in Bay State Monthly, i. 239; Granite Monthly, vii. 239. More came to Boston in the first shipment than were expected, and New Hampshire was asked to receive the excess. N. H. Prov. Records, vi. 445, 446.
[1016] N. E. Hist. and Gen. Reg., 1862, p. 142.
[1017] Jasper Mauduit’s letter to the House of Representatives, relating to a reimbursement of the expense of supporting the French neutrals, 1763. Mass. Hist. Coll., vi. 189. Among the Bernard Papers (Sparks MSS.), ii. 279, is a letter from Bernard to Capt. Brookes, dated Castle William, Sept. 26, 1762, forbidding the landing of Acadians from his “transports.” There is also in Ibid., ii. 83, a letter of Gov. Bernard, July 20, 1763, in which he speaks of a proposition which had been made to the French neutrals then in the province, to go to France on invitation of the French government. “Many of these people,” he adds, “are industrious, and would, I believe, prefer this country and become subjects of Great Britain in earnest, if they were assured of liberty of conscience.” The governor accordingly asks instructions from the Lords of Trade. The number of such people intending to go was, as he says, 1,019 in all, which he considers very near if not quite the whole number in the province. Bernard expressed a hope that he could induce them to settle rather at Miramichi, as he had formed a high opinion of their industry and frugality (p. 86). When some of them wished to migrate to Saint Pierre, the small island near the St. Lawrence Gulf, then lately confirmed to France, the governor and council tried to persuade them to remain.
[1018] See further in Penna. Archives, ii. 513, 581; Penna. Col. Recs., vii. 45, 55, 239-241, 408-410.