[24]

In a letter to the French minister, written in 1698, Villebon observes “J’ai recu par mons’r de Bonaventure qui est arrive ici le 20 Juillet la lettre de votre Grandeur et le traite de Paix fait avec l’Angleterre [the treaty of Ryswick]. * * Comme vous me marquez, Monseigneur, que les bornes de l’Acadie sont a la Riviere de Quenebequi.” [Kennebec]. etc.

[25]

The date of Joseph Bellefontaine’s commission was April 10, 1749.

[26]

Ignace Philippe Aubert, Sieur de Gaspe, was born at St. Antoine de Tilly near Quebec in 1714. He was an ensign in Acadia under de Ramezay in 1745 and was with Colombier de Villiers in the attack on Minas the following winter. He died at St. Jean, Port Joly, in 1787. He was grandfather of the author of the “Anciens Canadiens.”

[27]

I am indebted to Placide P. Gaudet for a copy of the original letter of which a translation is given on next page. It is one of the many interesting documents that have never yet been published.—W. O. R.

[28]

This refers, I imagine, to the Acadians on the lower St. John and does not include the colony at Ste. Annes.—W. O. R.