indebted to Placide P. Gaudet for the above extract. Father
Germain was the missionary of the Indians, while Coquart
seems to have ministered to the Acadians. The latter was a
"secular priest," or one not connected with any religious
order.--W. O. R.

Colonel Arbuthnot had reported to Governor Lawrence that the Acadians
begged leave to remain upon their lands on their promise to be
faithful and true to His Majesty's Government. To this he made answer
that they must come down to the Fort and remain there till he could
apply to the Governor to know what should be done; they came down
accordingly, and were to remain at the Fort until his excellency's
pleasure should be known. The poor Acadians were represented to be in
a starving condition. Their case came before the Governor and Council
for consideration on the 30th November, at a meeting held at the
Governor's house in Halifax, and the decision arrived at was this:
"The Council are of opinion, and do advise that His Excellency do take
the earliest opportunity of hiring vessels for having them immediately
transported to Halifax, as Prisoners of War, until they can be sent to
England; and that the two Priests be likewise removed out of the
Province." The resolve of the council seems to have been carried into
effect. In the month of January, Lawrence sent to the River St. John
for the French inhabitants who, to the number of 300, were brought to
Halifax until he could send them to England. Colonel Arbuthnot was the
agent employed in collecting these unfortunate people and sending them
to Halifax, and being a gentleman of a humane disposition he doubtless
found his task a most uncongenial one. Among his assistants was Joseph
Winniett,[47] a member for Annapolis Royal in the Nova Scotia House of
Assembly.

[47] This gentleman afterwards received an order from Mr. Bulkeley,
the provincial secretary, to take for his own use one of the
French boats "forfeited to the Government by the Acadians that
were at Annapolis," as a reward for his services in going up
the River St. John and assisting Colonel Arbuthnot in bringing
in the French. Winniett had a violent altercation with Captain
Sinclair of the Annapolis garrison about this boat. See
Murdoch's Hist. of N. S., Vol. II., p. 409.

CHAPTER XIV.

AUKPAQUE, THE VILLAGE AT THE HEAD OF THE TIDE.

On the west bank of the St. John, a