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  Speaker 1: Section seventeen of History of New Brunswick. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain recording by Roger Moline. History
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  Speaker 1: of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher, Section seventeen, Appendix number
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  Speaker 1: two extracts relating to the early transactions in Nova Scotia
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  Speaker 1: and New Brunswick, copied verbatim from papers compiled by a
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  Speaker 1: gentleman who intended to publish an account of New Brunswick,
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  Speaker 1: but was, from unexpected circumstances obliged to relinquish the design
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  Speaker 1: province of the Massachusetts Bay. Notice is hereby given that
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  Speaker 1: a squadron of His Majesty's ships and diverse regiments of
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  Speaker 1: foot should winter in Nova Scotia, which will require large
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  Speaker 1: supplies of fresh provisions to be sent thither from time
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  Speaker 1: to time, not only for the support of the sick
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  Speaker 1: in the hospitals, but for the refreshment of those that
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  Speaker 1: are well, And that His Excellency Governor Lawrence hath given
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  Speaker 1: assurance that the coasters and other trading in refreshments of
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  Speaker 1: that sort shall not only be protected by the Admiral
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  Speaker 1: from pressing, but shall receive both from His Excellency and
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  Speaker 1: the Admiral all manner of countenance and regard A. Oliver, Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: Province of the Massachusetts Bay, Boston, October thirty one, seventeen
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight. The following proclamation, being published in Nova Scotia
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  Speaker 1: and transmitted to this government, was read in Council and
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  Speaker 1: ordered to be published in this Province, Thomas Clark, Deputy Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: by his Excellency Charles Lawrence, Captain General and Commander in
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  Speaker 1: Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of Nova Scotia
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  Speaker 1: or Acadia in America, Vice Admiral of the same, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. A proclamation whereas by the late
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  Speaker 1: success of His Majesty's arms in the reduction of Cape
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  Speaker 1: Breton and its dependencies, and also by the demolition and
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  Speaker 1: entire destruction of Gaspet Mirimachi and of Saint Lawrence and
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  Speaker 1: on Saint John's River in the Bay of Fundy, the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: who have formerly disturbed and harassed the Province of Nova Scotia,
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  Speaker 1: and much obstructed its progress, have been compelled to retire
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  Speaker 1: and take refuge in Canada. A favorable opportunity now presents
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  Speaker 1: itself for the peopling and cultivating as well the lands
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  Speaker 1: vacated by the French, as every other part of that
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  Speaker 1: valuable province. I have therefore thought fit, with the advice
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  Speaker 1: of His Majesty's Counsel, to issue this proclamation, declaring that
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  Speaker 1: I shall be ready to receive any proposals that may
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  Speaker 1: hereafter be made to me for or effectually settling the
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  Speaker 1: said vacated or any other lands within the province. Aforesaid,
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  Speaker 1: A description whereof and of the advantages arising from their
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  Speaker 1: peculiar nature and situation, I have ordered to be published
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  Speaker 1: with this proclamation given in the Council Chamber at Halifax,
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  Speaker 1: this twelfth day of October seventeen fifty eight, and in
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  Speaker 1: the thirty second year of His Majesty's reign, by His
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  Speaker 1: Excellency's command, with the advice of His Majesty's Council Charles Lawrence,
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  Speaker 1: God Save the King, a description of the lands ordered
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  Speaker 1: to be published pursuant to the foregoing proclamation, which consist
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  Speaker 1: of more than one hundred thousand acres of land, interval
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  Speaker 1: and plow lands producing wheat, rye, barley, oats, hemp, flax,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. These have been cultivated for more than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred years past and never fit of crops nor need manuring.
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  Speaker 1: Also more than one hundred thousand acres of upland cleared
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  Speaker 1: and stocked with English grass, planted with orchards, gardens, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: These lands with good husbandry produce often two loads of
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  Speaker 1: hay per acre. The wild and unimproved lands adjoining abound
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  Speaker 1: with black birch ash, oak, pine, fir, et cetera. All
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  Speaker 1: these lands are so intermixed that every single farmer may
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  Speaker 1: have a proportionable quantity of plow land, grassland and woodland,
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  Speaker 1: and are all situated about the Bay of Fundy, upon
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  Speaker 1: rivers navigable for ships of burden. Proposals will be received
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  Speaker 1: by mister Hancock of Boston and by Messrs Delancey and
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  Speaker 1: Watts of New York, to be transmitted to the Governor
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  Speaker 1: or President of the Council at Halifax. Copy His Majesty's
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  Speaker 1: confirmation of the plan for settling the Province of Nova
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  Speaker 1: Scotia at the Court of Saint James, the sixteenth day
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  Speaker 1: of February seventeen sixty seal, present the King's most Excellent Majesty,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Keeper Earl Gower, Lord President, Viscount Barrington, Lord Steward,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Delaware, Earl of Hindford, Mister Vice Chamberlain, whereas there
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  Speaker 1: was this day read to the Board a representation from
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, dated the thirtieth
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  Speaker 1: of December last, containing an account of the proceedings of
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  Speaker 1: the Governor in Council of Nova Scotia with regard to
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  Speaker 1: the settling of the lands evacuated by the removal of
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  Speaker 1: the French inhabitants from that province, as well as other
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  Speaker 1: tracts of land in the wild and un cleared part
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  Speaker 1: of that country, and also with regard to the terms
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  Speaker 1: and conditions upon which the said Governor and Council have
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  Speaker 1: agreed to make grants of the said lands, and the
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  Speaker 1: said Lord's Commissioners being of opinion that the plan so
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  Speaker 1: laid down by the said Governor and Council will be
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  Speaker 1: a means of the speedy settling the vacant lands in
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  Speaker 1: that province, and therefore proper to receive His Majesty's approbation.
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  Speaker 1: His Majesty has this day took the said representation into consideration,
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  Speaker 1: and is hereby pleased with the advice of His Privy
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  Speaker 1: Council to declare his royal approbation of the said plan
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  Speaker 1: of the said Governor and Council for the speedy settling
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  Speaker 1: the vacant lands in that province, and also of the
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  Speaker 1: terms and conditions agreed upon for that purpose. And doth
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  Speaker 1: therefore order that the Governor or Commander in Chief of
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  Speaker 1: his Province of Nova Scotia, for the time being, Duke,
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  Speaker 1: carry the same into execution, signed w Sharp extract of
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  Speaker 1: a letter from his Excellency, Governor Lawrence to the Agent
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  Speaker 1: for the Province of Nova Scotia at Boston, dated twenty
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  Speaker 1: fourth June seventeen sixty. I am ready to receive farther
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  Speaker 1: proposals in consequence of His Majesty's approbation of our measures,
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  Speaker 1: from any person or persons who will offer themselves to
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  Speaker 1: become settlers in this province, and that all due encouragement
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  Speaker 1: shall be given them to the utmost limits of the
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  Speaker 1: authority with which His Majesty has been pleased to invest
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  Speaker 1: the Governor and Council of this province. Note of Benny
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  Speaker 1: Proposals left with mister Hancock will be transmitted to the
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  Speaker 1: Governor at Halifax. Captain Bragdon informs us that Captain Fisher
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  Speaker 1: in a sloop from Annapolis Royal bound to Fort Cumberland,
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  Speaker 1: was cast away in the Bay of Fire, on board
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  Speaker 1: of which was Lieutenant Tong, an engineer, with a considerable
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  Speaker 1: sum of money, which was lost, together with the lives
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  Speaker 1: of two or three persons on board. Friday last arrived
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  Speaker 1: here the province ship King George, Captain Hallowell from Louisbourg,
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  Speaker 1: and a cruse from Louisbourg. We learned that the armed
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  Speaker 1: vessels lately sent out thence had been at Pictou and
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  Speaker 1: burnt five or six vessels which the enemy took from
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  Speaker 1: us last year and brought off some plunder, and that
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  Speaker 1: the Indians from Saint John, who brought the account of
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  Speaker 1: the five French men of war being in the Bay
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  Speaker 1: of Chaleur, also informed that they had landed four hundred
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  Speaker 1: men in order to attack Fort Cumberland, arrived here. Colonel Arthenau,
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  Speaker 1: who commanded at Fort Frederick in Saint John's River the
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  Speaker 1: year passed. Also several other officers and a number of
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  Speaker 1: soldiers belonging to this province, who have garrisoned His Majesty's
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  Speaker 1: forts up the Bay of Fundy and now discharged, arrived here,
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  Speaker 1: being relieved by a number of soldiers lately enlisted in
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  Speaker 1: this province for that service. We hear that the Indians
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  Speaker 1: behave well and still continue to come into the forts
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  Speaker 1: at Nova Scotia and carry on trade very peaceably. Extract
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  Speaker 1: of a letter from Colonel Frye to his Excellency the Governor,
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  Speaker 1: dated Fort Cumberland, Shignecto, March seventh, seventeen sixty. Sir, I
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  Speaker 1: informed your Excellency on my last of tenth December of
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  Speaker 1: the submission of the French peasants residing at Miramachi, Richebucto, Bucktousche,
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  Speaker 1: Petakodiak and Mary mc cook, made by their deputies sent
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  Speaker 1: here for that purpose on the thirtieth of January last.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Maynac, a French priest who has had the charge
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  Speaker 1: of the people at Mirimachi, Richebucto and Buctousche, and a
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  Speaker 1: number of the principal men of those places, arrived here
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  Speaker 1: when they received their submission in a formal manner by
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  Speaker 1: subscribing to articles drawn suitable to the case, whereby, among
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  Speaker 1: other things, they have obliged themselves and people they represent,
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  Speaker 1: to come to baye Verte with all their effects and
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  Speaker 1: shipping as early in the spring as possible, in order
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  Speaker 1: to be disposed of, as Governor Lawrence shall direct. With
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  Speaker 1: the French priest, came two Indian chiefs, Paul Lawrence and
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  Speaker 1: Augustine Michael. Lawrence tells me he was a prisoner in
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  Speaker 1: Boston and lived with mister Hempshaw, a blacksmith. He is
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  Speaker 1: chief of a tribe at Richebucto. I have received their
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  Speaker 1: submissions for themselves and for their tribes to his Britannic Majesty,
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  Speaker 1: and sent them to Halifax for the terms of Governor Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: I have likewise received the submission of two other chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: whom I dealt with as before mentioned, and was in
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  Speaker 1: hopes I had no more treaties to make with savages.
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  Speaker 1: But he told me I was mistaken, for there would
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  Speaker 1: be a great many more upon the same business as
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  Speaker 1: soon as their spring hunting was over. And upon my
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  Speaker 1: inquiring how many, he gave me a list of fourteen chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: including those already mentioned, copy of which I have enclosed,
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  Speaker 1: most of which he said would come. I was surprised
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  Speaker 1: to hear of such a number of Indian chiefs in
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  Speaker 1: this part of America, and mister Maynac further told me
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  Speaker 1: that they were all of one nation, and known by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Mickmax, that they were very numerous, amounting
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  Speaker 1: to near three thousand souls, that he had learned their language,
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  Speaker 1: he had been among them, and found so much excellence
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  Speaker 1: in it that he was well persuaded if the beauties
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  Speaker 1: of it were known in Europe, there would be seminaries
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  Speaker 1: erected for the propagation of it. How that might be
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  Speaker 1: is better known to him than to those who know
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  Speaker 1: nothing of the language. But I think I may venture
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  Speaker 1: to say that if there be so many of these Indians,
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  Speaker 1: as he says there are, I know this province, as
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  Speaker 1: it abounds very plentifully with furs, may reap a vast
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  Speaker 1: advantage by them, provided Canada returns not into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of the French. About the time that mister Maynac arrived here,
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  Speaker 1: there came in eight men, one of whom was a
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  Speaker 1: New england Man, one Irishman, and the rest Italians and Spaniards,
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  Speaker 1: who informed me they deserted from a French frigate that
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  Speaker 1: lay frozen at the head of Gaspe Harbor. The two
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  Speaker 1: former belonged to a vessel commanded by Captain mallelcom of Boston,
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  Speaker 1: who was taken by the above frigate as she was
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  Speaker 1: returning from Quebec, where she had been on a trading voyage.
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  Speaker 1: Names of the Indian chiefs inhabiting the coast of Acadia
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  Speaker 1: Louis Francis, chief of Mirror, Michi, Deni, Winmoet ditto tabogimkek
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  Speaker 1: Etienne Abchabo ditto Pohomouche, Claude Attanaze ditto Gediak, Paul Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: ditto la' ave Joseph Algamore ditto Chignecto, John Knewitt ditto
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  Speaker 1: Pictu Baptiste la Moreau ditto Isle of Saint John's Rani
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  Speaker 1: ditto Nal kigoniasch Jano, Piguida Welwet ditto Keeshpugowick, but tell
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  Speaker 1: Me Aguilette ditto Minas Augustine Michael ditto Richebucto. End of
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  Speaker 1: section seventeen. Recording by Roger Molin