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Having certain information that one LeLoutre* a French Priest at Chinecto is the author and adviser of all the disturbances the Indians have made in this Province, and that it is he, as their chief, excites, directs and instructs them and provides them from Canada with arms, amunition and every thing necessary for their Purpose.
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As all the Inhabitants of Chinecto, thro' his instigation, have harbored and assisted the Indians, and have never given the least Intelligence to the Government, forgetting
* Louis Joseph De la Loutre was sent to Canada, by the Society of Foreign Missions at Paris, in the year 1737. We find him acting as Missionary to the Micmac Indians in Nova Scotia, as early as 1740-1, — Governor Mascarene having addressed a letter to him in January of that year. He was a most determined enemy of British Authority in Acadia, and continued to act in conjunction with Father Germain and others, as emissary and correspondent of the French Governors at Quebec, until his departure from the country in 1755. He appears to have been constantly engaged in instigating the Savages to acts of hostility against Mr. Mascarene's Government. In 1743-4, he headed a body of Abenaqui Indians in an attack on the fort of Annapolis Royal, "treacherously surprising and killing all the English whom he caught without the fort, destroying their cattle, and burning their houses," until prevented by the arrival of a reinforcement to the relief of the Garrison. — Mascarene's letter to Secretary of State.
He went to Canada in the summer of 1745 and returned to his mission in September, having first visited the River St. John to incite the Indians there to hostilities. About this time he received directions from the Government of Canada, to commuuicate with the French fleet, then off the coast of Cecadia, by signals furnished him. Despatches from the commander of the fleet were on that occasion entrusted to his care. Large sums of money, fire arms, ammunition, and other supplies were frequently furnished him by the French Government, for distribution among the Indians and Acadian French Inhabitants. His principal residence was at Missiquash, near Fort Lawrence, in Cumberland, from which he was in the habit of proceeding down the Bay, and by the river Shubenacadie to Chebucto, where he communicated with Due D'Anville's fleet which took refuge there in 1746. — N.Y. Paris Doc.
In March, 1746, by means of his Indians, he intercepted the letters of the Governor of Louisburg to Governor Mascarene at Annapolis, and sent them to Quebec; and, in July following, he assisted the officers of a French Frigate,
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