ECLATECISSEMENTS SUR LA QUESTION ACADIENNE SI 



APPENDICE 



Documents inédits sur l'Acadie. 



Extract op a letter from Mr. Adajis to Capt. Steele/ Jan. 24, 1714-15. 



Annapolis Eoyal, Jan'J' 24th, 1714-15. 



Sir, 



I lost the opportunity of writing to you by Alden and Leavi.s, I)eing then at Mines, we were in 

 hopes here upon the General's arrival, he would pay oflf the garrison and settle the place on a good 

 footing, but on the contrary, put us in the greatest confusion, jJuU'd down the flbrts. Drove away 

 the ffrench, and carry'd away all the English he cou'd that the place is now almost desolate : In Short 

 if his commission had been to destroy the country, he could not have diseharg'd his trust to better 

 purpose than he did, he employ'd all his time here in pursuing his implacable malice against Gov'' 

 Vetch, when in truth he did the T<]nglisli interest in this country more damage in the two months he 

 was here, than Governor Vetch cou'd have done in all his life, if he had been as bad as he wou'd fain 

 make the world beleive he was. He has stopt all I owe (-fovernor Vetch in his own hands in Wheat & 

 Peas, I deliver'd for the use of the Garrison, a copy of which have sent to madam Vetch, as he us'd 

 to curse & Damm Governor Vetch & all his friends, he is now serv'd himself in the same manner, but 

 with this diiference, that it was only he and two or three others who thought to get into his favour 

 thereby, that revil'd Gov' Vetch, but there is hot one soul in the place french or English (save 2) 

 but hate and abhor his name. 



Endorsed: Extract of a letter fiom M.Adams to Capt. Steele, at Boston dated at Annajjolis 



Royal, January the 24th, 1714-15, relating to Col. Nicholson's misbehaviour there. 



Rec" I May 20th, 1715. 

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II 



Letter from Cdl. Vetch to the Board of Trade.' 



March 9, 1714-15. 

 Mt LoRi^p, 



I could not but judge it my duty out of a trew concour for the publick good : to put your Lord- 

 ships in mind of the circumstances of the country of Nova Scotia, the french inhabitants being in a 

 manner obliged to Leave the country by the treatment they received from Mr. Nicolson while 

 Gov' there ; as well be made appear to your Lordships by the atlidavits of some persons lately come 

 from thence : to which I humbly pray your Lordships to be refei-red : what I am now to Intimate to 

 your Lordships is, that as the season of the year now advances, unless some speedy orders are sent 

 to prevent the Inhabitants removal with their catle and effects to Cape Brittoun as it will wholly 

 strip and Ruine Nova Scotia so it will att once make Cape Brittoun a populous and well stocked 

 colony, which many years and great expense could not have done directly from France, as I already 



' Public Record OflBce. — Col. Records — Nova Scotia, vol. 1. 

 ' Public Record OfiSce — Col. Records — Nova Scotia, vol. 1. 



