Nova Scotia Archives

Acadian Heartland

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

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NOVA SCOTIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Promise the sd That he Shall be Discharged from the aforesd Service at the End of the sd Term of One Year upon his Request &c, and also in Your Excellencys Instructions to me of the 27th of March Last You are Pleased to direct that at the End of the Term for which the Soldiers of the sd Regiment were Enlisted, You are to take Care that Such of them as Should be desirous to Return to their Habitations to be Embarked on Board the sd Transports or others to be Provided by the Goverment of Nova Scotia and Sent back to their Respective Homes at the Charge of the sd Goverment. By all which it Manifestly appears to me, That the Men cannot be held after the Expiration of the Year. and it will not be so Elligible to be every Day Discharging Men as their Respective Year is up and applying for Transports for Carrying of them off. Would Therefore Humbly Pray Your Particular orders (as Commander of his Majestys Forces in North America) in what manner and at what Time I am to Discharge this Your Regiment or rather remove them to New England as I Suppose their Pay Can not End till they are returned home and I apprehend Most proper to be discharged there. Upon their Arrival and not before. as to the Men Inlisted here into the Regulars, I was full to Your Excellency in my Last. Since which I was before the Govr. & Council on Some affairs where that matter was Canvisd and I Examined Critically to Some Letters of Transactions at Chignecto. of which I knew Nothing off. As to the affairs of Inlisting Men here, Unduly or Not (unfinished.)