overnment as
commissions of their remaining peaceable, at the same time all the
French families, then in scattered settlements on the north side of
the bay were ordered to leave the Province. They all obeyed the
mandate: but in a few years, many returned, one after another, and
became quiet subjects.

REMARKS.

_On the state of that part of ancient Nova-Scotia lying north of the
Bay of Fundy, now in the Province of New-Brunswick, prior to the year
1754._

The French Government in defiance of former treaties continued to erect
forts around the harbour of Saint John, and to send troops for the
defence of this part of the country (considering it theirs) and to
employ the natives to harass and murder the settlers in the district of
Maine, thus for many years preventing the settlement of that part of
the British dominions as far west as that district or province
extended; and the French more recently built a Fort and named it
Beau-Sejour, at the head of the bay: from which place they supplied
with arms, &c. the tribes of Indians who inhabited the coasts on the
Gulph of Saint Lawrence and the rivers that fall into the same. The
Indians were also employed to check and prevent the settlements of the
Country called Minas, Cobequis and other parts of the Province on the
Peninsula of Acadia or Halifax. To prevent the continuance of such
depredations, the British Government sent an expedition in 1754, to
take possession of this fort, which was not obtained till after an
obstinate resistance from the French, who for some years after it was
reduced, continued to fortify their settlements on the banks of the
river St. John, at Passamaquoddy, and to employ the natives in the
service, to prevent the English from extending their settlements
eastward of the river Kennebeck and the inhabitants were continually
harassed, and often murdered by savages frequently sent by the French
for that purpose at Kennebeck and many miles westward for a long course
of time. In the year 1758, an expedition was sent from Halifax or
Boston to reduce the only remaining French forts of any considerable
strength, north of the Bay of Fundy; situated on the west side of the
river, below the falls, within the present limits of the city Saint
John. But the French commander, having received notice of this
expedition some time before its arrival, removed all the light stores
further up the river, sunk all his heavy guns as reported by