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Extract from Letter Board of Trade to Governor Lawrence, dated March 10, 1757.
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We are extremely sorry to find, that notwithstanding the great expence which the public has been at in removing the French inhabitants, there should yet be enough of them remaining to molest and disturb the Settlements, and interrupt and obstruct our partys passing from one place to another; It is certainly very much to be wished, that they could be entirely driven out of the Peninsula, because untill that is done, it will be in their power, by the knowledge they have of the country, however small their numbers, to distress and harrass the out-settlements, and even his Majesty's Troops so as greatly to obstruct the establishment of the Colony; As to the Conduct of the Southern Colonys in permitting those who were removed to coast along from one Province to another in order that they might get back to Nova Scotia, nothing can have been more absurd and blameable, and had not the Governors of New York and Massachusetts Bay prudently stopped them, there is no attempt however desperate and cruel which might not have been expected from Persons exasperated as they must have been by the treatment they had met with.
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We entirely agree in Opinion with you that in the present situation of things, and vexed and harrassed as the Province is by the Hostilities of the French and Indians, it will be in vain to attempt to induce hardy and industrious People to leave Possessions, which perhaps they may enjoy in peace in other Colonies, to come and settle in a Country where they must be exposed to every distress and calamity which the most inveterate enemy living in the Country, and knowing every Pass and Corner of it, can subject them to; and therefore we do not desire, nor mean to press the measure upon you further than the circumstances of the province & of the times will admit of it.
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Governor Pownall * to Governor Lawrence.
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BOSTON, Janry 2d. 1759.
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SIR, —
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This waits upon you with the compliments and every good of the Season I also congratulate you on the very
* Governor Pownall, afterwards Sir Thomas Pownall, succeeded William Shirley as Governor of Massachusetts in 1757. He was brother to John Pownall, Secretary of the Board of Trade, and partly through his brother’s
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