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JOURNAL OF COLONEL JOHN WINSLOW. |
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HALLIFAX, 11TH AUGUST, 1755.
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SIR.
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as I have already pointed out to you as Perticular as Posable what is Necessary to be Done in the Instructions herewith Sent I have Nothing Further to add, but that you must Collect ye Inhabitants togather in order to their Being Transported in the Best Maner in your Power Either by Stratagem or Force as Circumstances may requirer, but above all I Desier you would Not pay the Least attention to any remonstrance or Memorial from any of the Inhabitants, whatsoever who may be Desierous of Staying behinde, but Embarke Every Person if Possable according to the Instructions herewith Sent without any further application to me. If you Should Finde there is more People then there is Vessels Provided will Contain, Reckoning Two Persons to Each Tun, you are lmmediatly to Send an Exspress to acquaint me therewith, but Make No Delay in the Emharkation upon that account.
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Thoh the Inhabitants by your Instructions are allowed to Carry with them their household Furniture yet they Must Not put on Board Quantities of useless Rubbish to Encumber the Vessels; the Inhabitants and their Bedding Must at all Events be Embarked, and if afterwards there is room for other articles Suffer them to Carry what they Conveniently Can.
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you must order the Masters of the Transportes to take Care that at the Time of Sailing they have their Proper Quantity of water that is to Say that all their water Cask be Full.
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I Send you the Form of an address to the Governours on ye Continent.
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I am Sir your Most Obediant Humble
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Servant,
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CHAS. LAWRENCE.
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On His Majestys Service To Colo Winslow, and in his absence to Capt Alexander Murray.
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August 30th. Last Evening Capt. Murray Arived and Brought with him the afore resights Commissions & Instructions & Letters and with whome I Consulted Methods for removing the whole Inhabitants of the Villages of Grand Pre, Mines, Rivers Cannard, Habbertong and Gaspereau, and agreed that it would be Most Convenient to Sight all the Male Inhabitants of sd Villages to assemble at the Church in this Place on the 5th of September next to hear the King's Orders, and that at the Same time Capt. Murray to Collect the Inhabitants of Piziquid, and Villages adjatent to Forte Edward for the Same Purpose, and wrote Colo Lawrance this Day our Determination, and after Capt.
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