238 MASSACHUSETTS ATTACKS QUEBEC. [1690. 



of the booty included twenty-one pieces of can- 

 non, with a considerable sum of money belong- 

 ing to the king. The smaller articles, many 

 of which were taken from the merchants and 

 from such of the settlers as refused the oath, 

 were packed in hogsheads and sent on board 

 the ships. Phips took no measures to secure his 

 conquest, though he commissioned a president and 

 six councillors, chosen from the inhabitants, to 

 govern the settlement till farther orders from the 

 crown or from the authorities of Massachusetts. 

 The president was directed to constrain nobody in 

 the matter of religion ; and he was assured of pro- 

 tection and support so long as he remained " faith- 

 ful to our government," that is, the government 

 of Massachusetts. 1 The little Puritan common- 

 wealth already gave itself airs of sovereignty. 



Phips now sent Captain Alden, who had already 

 taken possession of Saint-Castin's post at Penob- 

 scot, to seize upon La Heve, Chedabucto, and 

 other stations on the southern coast. Then, after 

 providing for the reduction of the settlements at 

 the head of the Bay of Fundy, he sailed, with 

 the rest of the fleet, for Boston, where he arrived 

 triumphant on the thirtieth of May, bringing with 

 him, as prisoners, the French governor, fifty-nine 

 soldiers, and the two priests, Petit and Trouve. 

 Massachusetts had made an easy conquest of all 

 Acadia ; a conquest, however, which she had neither 



as excessively irritated at the late slaughter of settlers at Salmon Falls 

 and elsewhere. 



1 Journal of the Expedition, etc. 



