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At a Council held at the aforesaid place the same Members present, on Wednesday 19th June 1745.
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One of the Deputies of Pisaquid, Pierre Landry, appeared before the Council, and Joseph Le Blanc, in behalf of the Grand Pree, but not a Deputy, with one of the Deputies of the river Canards, Joseph Hebert with Melanson not a Deputy, and all the Deputies of this river, to whom after the Commander in Chief had taken notice of some of the districts not sending the proper persons they ought to have done, (as being no Deputies), represented that it was notorious that there were several among them that had been officious towards the enemy, and had gone so far as to discover even all the effects that belonged to the English, by which means the enemy were enabled to possess themselves of these said effects, and by giving them intelligence of the circumstances of the garrison, and other means whereby the enemy had been encouraged on some attempts to the prejudice of the garrison, especially surprising some of the Company of Rangers on Goat Island.
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That it besides was known that all the plunder the enemy had made by seizing the two schooners which came from Boston (the property of His Majesty's British subjects) was dispersed and bought up by the inhabitants of Mines; upon which Joseph LeBlanc said that what was bought up by the inhabitants of Mines was in order to be returned to the British proprietors, as well as the three prisoners they had redeemed out of the hands of the enemy, which they offered to bring and surrender here. * * * * * *
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P. MASCARENE.
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At a Council at the place aforesaid the same Members present, on Thursday, 27th June, 1745.
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Appeared before the Commander in Chief and His Majesty's Council for this Province, Jean Terriot and Jean Potier, Deputies of Chignecto, bringing a letter signed by several of the inhabitants of said place, importing in substance that as they prepared themselves according to the orders received last fall, to come here the beginning of this year, they were hindered by the arrival of a detachment of Canadians and Indians,
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