Loutre, 15 Oct. 1754; extract in Public Documents of Nova Scotia, 239.
244
Lawrence to Shirley, 5 Nov. 1754. Instructions of Lawrence to Monckton, 7 Nov. 1754.
245
Shirley to Lawrence, 7 Nov. 1754.
246
Robinson to Shirley, 5 July, 1754.
247
Shirley to Robinson, 8 Dec. 1754. Ibid., 24 Jan. 1755. The Record Office contains numerous other letters of Shirley on the subject. "I am obliged to your Honor for communicating to me the French Mémoire, which, with other reasons, puts it out of doubt that the French are determined to begin an offensive war on the peninsula as soon as ever they shall think themselves strengthened enough to venture up it, and that they have thoughts of attempting it in the ensuing spring. I enclose your Honor extracts from two letters from Annapolis Royal, which show that the French inhabitants are in expectation of its being begun in the spring." Shirley to Lawrence, 6 Jan. 1755.
248
Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. This letter is also mentioned in another contemporary document, Mémoire sur les Fraudes commises dans la Colonie.
249
Pichon, called also Tyrrell from the name of his mother, was author of Genuine Letters and Memoirs relating to Cape Breton,—a book of some value. His papers are preserved at Halifax, and some of them are printed in the Public Documents of Nova Scotia.
250
Pichon to Captain Scott, 14 Oct. 1754, in Public Documents of Nova Scotia, 229.
251
Public Documents of Nova Scotia, 223, 224, 226, 227, 238.
252
Public Documents of Nova Scotia, 239.
253
Shirley to Robinson, 20 June, 1755.
254
Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. An English document, State of the English and French Forts in Nova Scotia, says 1,200 to 1,400.
255
Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760.
256
Winslow, Journal and Letter Book. Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760. Letters from officers on the spot in Boston Evening Post and Boston News Letter. Journal of Surgeon John Thomas.
257
"11 June. Capt. Adams went with a Company of Raingers, and Returned at 11 Clock with a Coach and Sum other Plunder." Journal of John Thomas.
258
Journal of Pichon, cited by Beamish Murdoch.
259
On the capture of Beauséjour, Mémoires sur le Canada, 1749-1760; Pichon, Cape Breton, 318; Journal of Pichon, cited by Murdoch; and the English accounts already mentioned.
260
Knox, Campaigns in North America, I. 114, note. Knox, who was stationed in Nova Scotia, says that Le Loutre left behind him "a most remarkable character for inhumanity."
261
Winslow, Journal. Villeray au Ministre, 20 Sept. 1755.
262
Drucour au Ministre, 1 Déc. 1755.
