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subject. In 1632 the Company of New France granted the Bay and 
River St. Croix to De Razilly, and in 1635 they granted the territory at 
the mouth of the St. John to LaTour. Both of these grants are fully 
described and mapped in the preceding Monograph of this series (“ His- 
toric Sites of New Brunswick,” 307, 308). Their bounds were perfectly 
distinct and recognizable, but they lapsed into oblivion and never pro- 
duced any effect either upon any boundaries which exist to-day, or upon 
any later boundaries whatever. 
After the death of De Razilly in 1636, his rights in Acadia devolved 
upon his brother, who sold them to Charnisay. Thus Charnisay claimed 
Port Royal, LaHave and St. Croix, and immediately became aggressive 
as to his rights in Acadia. This led to disputes with LaTour, and the 
subject having been ‘referred to the King of France, he, in a letter to 
Charnisay in 1638, established boundaries between the two lieutenants 
as follows :— 
; vous soyez mon Lieutenant général en la côte des Etchemins, à 
prendre depuis le milieu de la terre ferme de la Baie Francoise, en tirant 
vers les Virgines, & Gouverneur de Pentagoet; & que le charge du sieur de 
la Tour mon Lieutenant général en la côte d’Acadie, soit depuis le milieu de 
la Baie Francoise jusqu’au détroit de Canseau. Ainsi vous ne pouvés chan- 
ger aucun ordre dans l’habitation de la rivière Saint-Jean, faite par ledit 
sieur de la Tour, qui ordonnera de son ceconomie & peuple, & comme, il 
jugera à propos; & ledit sieur de la Tour ne s’ingérera non plus de rien 
changer és habitations de la Héve & Port Royal, ni des ports de ce qui y 
est. 4 
(Memorials of the English and French Commissaries, 711.) 
TRANSLATION. 
You shall be my lieutenant general on the coast of the Etchemins, begin- 
ning from the middle of the terra firma of the French Bay, '[Fundy] and 
thence towards Virginia,—and governor of Pentagoët ; and that the charge 
of the Sieur de la Tour, my lieutenant general on the coast of Acadie, shall 
be from the middle of the French bay to the strait of Canseau. Further, you 
are not empowered to change any arrangements in the settlement on the 
River St. John, made by the said sieur de la Tour, who will direct his busi- 
ness and his people according to his judgement: and the said sieur de la 
Tour shall not attempt to change anything in the settlements of Lahéve and 
Port Royal, nor in the ports thereto belonging. ... .* 
The bounds here set, although not clearly stated, would seem, never- 
theless, to be unmistakable, giving to LaTour the peninsula (the present 
Nova Scotia) and to Charnisay the mainland (the present New Bruns- 
wick and part of Maine) ; but as we shall presently see, a different inter- 
pretation was afterwards given to these boundaries. Another very 
important fact to be observed is that the name Acadia is confined to La- 

1 This letter is given in part in translation in Murdoch, I., 93. 
