CHAPTEK XVI. 



1690-1694. 

 THE WAR IN ACADIA. 



State of that Colony. — The Abenakis. — Acadia and New 

 England. — Pirates. — Baron de Saint-Castin. — Pentegoet. 



— The English Frontier. — The French and the Abenakis. 



— Plan of the War. — Capture of York. — Villebon. — 

 Grand War-party. — Attack of Wells. — Pemaquid rebuilt. 



— John Nelson. — A Broken Treaty. — Villieu and Thury. 



— Another War-party. — Massacre at Oyster River. 



Amid domestic strife, the war with England and 

 the Iroquois still went on. The contest for terri- 

 torial mastery was fourfold : first, for the control 

 of the west ; secondly, for that of Hudson's Bay ; 

 thirdly, for that of Newfoundland ; and, lastly, for 

 that of Acadia. All these vast and widely sundered 

 regions were included in the government of Fron- 

 tenac. Each division of the war was distinct from 

 the rest, and each had a character of its own. As 

 the contest for the west was wholly with New York 

 and her Iroquois allies, so the contest for Acadia was 

 wholly with the " Bostonnais," or people of New 

 England. 



Acadia, as the French at this time understood 

 the name, included Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 

 and the greater part of Maine. Sometimes they 



