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Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768

JOURNAL OF COLONEL JOHN WINSLOW.

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Board, their Subsistance is Carryed to Villoge where on the Top of Every tide the Boats from Each Vessel are ordered to attend to receive it, and a French man in Each Boat to See that Everyone has his proper Due that is brought for him by his Family, in this Manner have we Scuffled (throh thoh with abundance of Complaints from women & children that they are Starving &c.) to this Day. I Should be Exstreamly Glad to See Mr. Saul and the Fleet who I am Informed arived at Chignecto on the 20th of August. what Detains them I Cant tel. I had the Honr. of a Letter from Colo, Monckton of the 5th of September, in which he does not mention anything of Transportes Coming from that Quarter, and Only Informs that the Embarkeation of the Inhabitants Goes on Slowly and that he is Fearfull he Could not Supply us with any Provissions &c. have recd of him Four Barrels. of Powder Balls Flints &c answerable So as to that Pointe I am will. I had before the reception of yr. Excellency's Employed Fifty men a Day for four Days past to Gather in ye Harvest to whome I Ventured to Promise pay, and the French women & Boys assisted with their Cattle to Get it in to the adjatient Barns and for Getting of it out would Propose to your Excellency that it Might be Theresd by the Bushell as I beleive it would be Cheapest for the Goverment to do it that way rather then by Day Labour & would propose 3d Sterling a Bushell for weat, 1½d for Oates. and is Something Less then I pay at Marshfield, as to Provissions for our party I Deliver One half Fresh and the Other Salt in Meat Kinde, are Exstreamly put to it for the article of Salt. donte Know where to find a peck in the Country. Shod be glad of a Supply. Bread is the Most Essential thing we want for althoh we are Surrounded with wheat yet Cant obtain one Bushell of Meal as the Streams that Carry the water Mills are Low and the winde Mills Cant Grinde So Fast as the Inhabitants now Collected Consume. molasses I have recd Only Six Hhds from Chignecto, one of which I Sent Captain Murray, and the whole wonte Near pay our Back allowance, as to Pease we have enough here, Porke, Bread, Rice & Molasses is what we want.

I have taken a list of all the People that were in my Custody, their numbers of Men, women, Boys, Girls, Cattle of all Kindes, Given in by Every Individual Person Excepting the number of the Deputys wch are now arivd and send you an Exact account and an Estemation of the Deputys which I Cant be answerable for is Quite right, have Inclosed the actual & Computed State, to which I refer. as to Neat Cattle here Very Fue of them are fit for Slaughter but as the Graine is almost out of Grand Pre Imagin we may well Fat four Hundred Bullocks in that Inclosier under our Immediat Inspection, a Little Cost being Lade out on the Fences, and I am Informed as Many at Cannard &c and as Soon as the Corne is out of Grand Pre Shall Send People Skild in Cattle to Pick out those Suitable for Beaf; what is to be Done with the Other Cattle of all Kindes, your Excellency will Direct. Shall be as Carefull in Every regard of Exspense to the Goverment as if the whole