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Lt. Governor Francklin to Governor Carleton.
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(Letter Book.)
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NOVA SCOTIA, HALIFAX, 18 August, 1768.
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SIR, —
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I had the honor to receive your Excellency's Letter to Lord William Campbell of the 5th of August, 1767, by Mr. Bailly the Priest, whose Conduct has been hitherto irreproachable and to all Appearance bids fair to be of greate benefit to this Province, by quieting the minds of the Indians who began to be very uneasy — and his Mission has this further good tendency of reconciling the consciencies of the Accadians who have lately taken the Oaths of Allegiance to His Majesty's Government.
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By this Gentlemen I am Informed that the Pere Bonaventure Missionary at the Bay de Chaleurs, lies under some censures of the Church of Quebec, and that among other articles he is Charged with having used his endeavours to alienate the minds of the Indians from this Government, and as Justice is due to every man, I think it necessary to acquaint your Excellency that whatever his other faults may be, we have nothing of that sort to lay to his Charge, but on the Contrary Capt. Dean of the Mermaid has repeatedly assured me that he was of great use in preventing differences between the People who Fished thereabouts and the Indians, and had particularly refused his Functions to Such of them as Shewed an Inclination in 1765 to commit Hostilitys against us.
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It is necessary at the same time I should acquaint your Excellency that there are certain Canadians and Inhabitants of Kamouraska and its Neighbourhood who come every Spring to Hunt in the River St. John to the great detriment of the Indians of that River by destroying their Beaver and at the same time they shall fill their Heads with news of their own Invention, which has a tendency to keep up the Idea of the Power of France. If this could be prevented as well as the Traders of Canada from coming into this Government, it would be doing this Province great service, as I am apprehensive of their forming a kind of an Asylum for the Banditti of Both Governments.
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I have the Honor &c.
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MICH. FRANCKLIN.
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To His Excellency
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Guy Carleton, Esq.,
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Governor of the Province of Quebec, &ca.
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