Nova Scotia Archives

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

JOURNAL OF COLONEL JOHN WINSLOW.

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the Continent your Honour will Judge the Consequense that must arise from any Authority whatsover that Prevents the Kings willing Subjects to go to its Relief, and as the Transportes are here ready to receive those three Companies of Men, and Eighteen Hund others Lying at the Kings Expense with their Provisions and Stores on Board You Certainly cannot hesitate, But will give Countenance to the Officers appointed to raise these Troops, and give Such Orders as to you seems proper that they may immediately march to their Duty. And as this is a matter that nearly Concerns His Majesty Service (and as Govr Shirley is out of the Province) my Character is at Stake with it, I am obliged to transmit an Account of these things, to the Secretary of State, to the Board of Trade, and Secretary at Warr. I have also Sent inclosed for your Perusal some Paragraphs of the Articles of Warr and on the whole assure myself that we shall meet with no Difficulty from your Quarter, but that you will use the Proper Measures in your Power to preserve to his Majesty the Valuable Province of Nova Scotia on the Protection of which the Prosperity of his Majesty Government under your Command, as well as this greatly depends.

You, Sir, will be so good, as to Pardon the Liberty I have here taken which my Concern for his Majesty Service has led me to do, and to be assured that with the Greatest Regard I am Your Honrs.

Very Humble Servant

To the Honble. Thomas Fitch,
Govr & Commander in cheif of
his Majests. Colony of Connecticut.

JOHN WINSLOW.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 14th, 1755.

SIR,

Yesterday in the afternoon I was favoured with your Letter of the 12th Instant wherein you signify a Concern, that the Regiment whereof you are Leiut. Coll. destined for Nova Scotia does not meet with the Same Treatment as Govr. Shirley's own Regiment, and Sr William Pepperells: for both these Regiments I had his Majess. Commands to assist in filling them up to One Thousand Men each, Govr. Shirley had my General Orders to the Colls. of the respective