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A half-century of conflict. France and England in North America. Part ...

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APPENDIX. 317" Wherefore if their Chief Governour's Age <strong>and</strong> health,<strong>and</strong> other Circumstances would have permittedbeen Upon the Spott, <strong>and</strong> Assisted <strong>in</strong>him to havethis Service, it wouldI believe have been for the Advantage <strong>of</strong> it, for him to havemade 'em a short Visit at least this year, And if it couldhave been repeated for the two or three proceed<strong>in</strong>g years itwould have been still more so. ..."Shirley to Newcastle, 10th Mat, 1746.(Extract.)"... I th<strong>in</strong>k it my <strong>in</strong>dispensable duty to suggest aga<strong>in</strong>to Your Grace my Fears that the Enemy will soon f<strong>in</strong>d anopportunity <strong>of</strong> snatch<strong>in</strong>g Accadie by some Sudden Strokefrom his Majesty's Government unless the danger is remov'dout <strong>of</strong> the Heart <strong>of</strong> it there by a Removal <strong>of</strong> the most dangerous<strong>of</strong> the french Inhabitants from thence, & transplant<strong>in</strong>gEnglish Families there <strong>in</strong> their room, which I th<strong>in</strong>k verypracticable from hence, hav<strong>in</strong>g lately found means <strong>of</strong>transplant<strong>in</strong>gupwards, I believe, <strong>of</strong> an hundred Families fromthe Prov<strong>in</strong>ce to Louisbourg towards the Settlement <strong>of</strong> it,which yet I dont esteem <strong>of</strong> such Importance to be immediatelydone as the Settlement <strong>of</strong> Nova Scotia with faithfulSubjects." In the meanwhile 'till this can be happily effected & theIndians <strong>in</strong> those parts secur'd <strong>in</strong> the English Interest, I havepropos'd to Mr. Warren that a Detachment <strong>of</strong> 100 Menshould be sent from Louisbourg to re<strong>in</strong>forcethe garrison atAnnapolis Royal, s<strong>in</strong>ce the late Miscarriage <strong>of</strong> 182 out <strong>of</strong>302 <strong>of</strong> the Recruits designed for Annapolis <strong>in</strong> their Passagefrom Engl<strong>and</strong> to the garrison there. N<strong>in</strong>ety-six <strong>of</strong> the Rema<strong>in</strong>der<strong>of</strong> 'em, which came <strong>in</strong> here, I with dithculty havegot recovered <strong>in</strong> his Majesty's Castle William & at the Hospital<strong>in</strong> Boston, & sent a month ago to Annapolis where Ihear they are safely arriv'd, <strong>and</strong> twenty more who are <strong>in</strong> a

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