Military History. 257 



Province of Massachusetts Bay. 



Suffolk ss. 



To the Hon ble Josiah Willard Esq. Secretary 



In pursuance of an act of the Great and Gen 1 Court of the Province 

 afor sd , the following is the account of the Selectmen of the town of Hing- 

 hain in the County afor sd of their expense in the support of the French 

 called Neutrals late Inhabitants of Nova Scotia sent to said town by order 

 of the Committee appointed to dispose of the same, the family sent to 

 sd town wei-e Anthony Ferry & wife & five small children and one single 

 woman in all Eight, this accompt is from the First day of June 17.36 to 

 the tenth day of Nov r 1756 for tools & provisions &c is twelve pounds 

 fourteen Stirling and four pence 



£12: 11: 4 



Daniel Beal ^ Selectmen 

 Enoch Lincoln V of The Town 

 Joseph Thaxter ) of Hingham. 



This family was subsequently increased by the arrival of an 

 aged mother and by the birth of another child. The Ferrys were 

 removed to Boston in 17(30 by order of the committee. Some of 

 the old diaries contain references to the employment, from time 

 to time, of one or another of the Acadians, about the farm-work 

 then in hand. Here are a few extracts : — 



1760 April 18 Two French boys for husking corn 



May 23 Employed the Frenchmen. Charge them with 38 lbs. Salt 



Beef Joseph Brow, Alexander Brow, Charles Trawhaw, Peter Trawhaw, 



John Trawhaw. 



Oct 28 Employ d the old Frenchman Alexander Brow and Peter 



Trawhaw also the other Brows and Trawhaws at Husking for several days 



The fate of these families is lost in the obscurity of history. 

 It is probable that they entirely died off or removed from Hing- 

 ham, for no descendants of any of them are known to exist. 



Among the men impressed and enlisted by Colonel Lincoln out 

 of his regiment for service in Canada in 1759, were, besides 

 Lieutenant Blake, Capt. Jotham Gay and Gideon Hayward, of all 

 of whom he speaks as having been in the Nova Scotia expedition 

 of 1755. Whether there were others or not is not known, as the 

 rolls of Winslow's troops are not to be found. 



After a year of open hostility, England on the 18th of May, and 

 France on the 9th of June, 1756, at last declared war. The 

 capture of Crown Point was by no means abandoned, but the 

 French during the interval had constructed a powerful defence at 

 Ticonderoga, and this too was included in the objects of a new 

 expedition planned by Shirley, who chose John Winslow for its 

 leader. Before the campaign commenced Shirley was removed and 

 the command was first given to General Abercromby, who arrived 

 in June, and then to the Earl of Loudon, who came in July. 



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