ON CAPE BEETON. 209 



The preparations for the sailing of the expedition resembled a crusade against the 

 hated French. The conditions of the times were in manj' respects favourable for enlisting 

 men. Not only were the commercial interests of New England deeply at stake in the 

 reduction of the French fort, and in obtaining possession of an island which con- 

 trolled the G-ulf of St. Lawrence, but the religious instincts of the people had been not 

 very long before stirred up by what has ever since been known in colonial history as the 

 "great awakening," which, like reA'ivals in later years, rushed like a powerful wave of 

 religious sentiment, and even of fanaticism, among the masses of the people. Deep in 

 the hearts of the descendants of the Paritan settlers of New England, was a hatred of 

 Rome and its adherents, anc! when the ca,ll was made against Louisbourg, no doubt it was 

 better obeyed than if there had been no stimulus given to the protestantism of the people 

 by the "great awakening," to which Whitfield, at the time in the country, lent the power 

 of his eloqiience.' 



The old Puritan spirit of the colonies asserted itself at this crisis, and supplications 

 went up to Heaven on all sides in the churches and the homes of the people for the suc- 

 cess of an expedition which was to crush Romanism and its superstitious. The troops 

 were volunteers "in the service of the great Captain of our Salvation." The eminent 

 preacher, Whitfield, who was still in America, had not given Pepperrell much encourage- 



4. Brigadier Dsvight's Regiment.— Colonel of Artillery, Lieutenant Colonel Tliomas, Major Gardner. 



5. York County, Colonel Moultou'a Regiment. — Lieutenant-Colonel Dounoll, Major Ellis. Captains John Card, 

 John Lane, Christopher Marshall, James Grant, Charles King, Peter Prescott, Ami R. Cutter, Samuel Rhodes, 

 Bartholomew Trow, Estes Hatcii. 



6. Worcester, Colonel Willard's Regiment— Lieutenant-Colonel Chandler, Major Pomroy. Captains Joshua 

 Pierce, John Terry, John Alexander, David Jlelvin, John Warner, .Jahez Ilouieslead, Joseph Miller, James 

 Goulding, James Stephens. 



7. Essex, Colonel Hale's Regiment— Lieutenant-Colonel Eveleigh, Major Titcomb. Captains Benjamin Ives, 



Daniel Eveleigh, Titcomb, John Dodge, Jonathan Bagley, Jere Foster, Samuel Davis, Thomas Stanford, 



Charles Byles. 



8. Bristol, Colonel Richmond's Regiment.— Lieutenant-Colonel Pitts, Major Hodges. Captains Nathaniel Bos- 

 worth, Tliomas Gilbert, Josiah Pratt, Robert Swan, Ebenezer Eastman, Cornelius Sole, John Lawrence, Natlianiel 

 Williams. Ebenezer Nichols, Weston. 



a Colonel Gorham's Regiment.— Lieutenant-Colonel Gorham, Major Thatcher. Captains Jonathan Carey, 

 Elisha Doane, Sylvester Cobb, Israel Bailey, Edward Demmick, Gershom Bradford, Samuel Lombard. 



10. New Hampshire, Colonel Moore's Regiment— Lieutenant-Colonel Meserve, Major Oilman. Captains 

 Samuel Whitten, William AValdron, True Dudley, Tufton Mason, William Seaward, Daniel Ladd, Henry Sher- 

 burne, John Turnel, Samuel Halo, Jacob Tilton, Edward William.?. 



The colonial fleet was composed as follows: Massachusetts frigate, 24 guns. Captain E. Tyng commodore; 

 Sliirley galley or snow, a two-masted vessel, 24 guns. Captain J. Rous ; Csesar, 20 guns. Captain Snelling. In addi- 

 tion there were the following: One snow and three sloops, 16 guns each ; one sloop, 12 guns; one, 14 carriage guns 

 and 12 swivels ; one, 14 guns ; two, 8 guns each ; a privateer of 20 guns hired from Rhode Island. Massachusetts 

 provided nine of these armed vessels at her own expense, besides one hundred transports Parkman gives the 

 Massachusetis and Shirley only 20 guns, but the actual force appears to have been 24. See Drake, " Five Years' 

 War," 246 ; " Nar. and Grit. Hist of Am.," v. 437, n. ; Parkman, ' Atlantic Monthly' for March, 1891, p. 322. Barry, 

 " Hist of Massachusetts," ii. 141. The whole number of guns was 204, according to Parsons, " Life of 

 Pepperrell,'' 50. 



' "This religious revival began to make itself felt in 1734, under an impulse from Jonathan Edwards, and later, 

 under the nunistrations of George Whitfield, the wild passion— for it became scarce else— spread through the 

 churches and communities of New England." "Nar and Crit. Hist of Am." v. 133-135. "The expedition," says 

 Parkman, ('Atlantic Monthly' for March, 1S91, p. 321) " had, in fact, something of the character of a crusade 

 emphasised by the lingering excitation of the 'great awakening.'" 



Sec. II, 1891. 27. 



