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5. That the Courier I sent to the priest, was carried away by some of the rebel French to Chinecto. I have likewise intelligence that may be depended on, that the French have actually raised some kind of Fort at Chinecto upon the River Tintamar.
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Your Grace will be more and more convinced of the necessity of securing that Isthmus, by a Fortress, and a strong garrison. It would have been happy for this Province, if it had been done last Summer.
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I shall follow His Majesty's Instructions, with regard to the Inhabitants taking the Oath of Allegiance; but I propose to defer pressing them upon that head, till we see what can be done at Chinecto, and what settlers came from England; by that time, I hope to have a good blockhouse at Piziquid; then I will demand a peremptory answer.
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If the French Inhabitants remain in this Province, I shall desire, above all things, that some method may be found of supplying them with Priests from Germany or Italy. The French missionaries, paid by France, will do every thing in their power, to alienate the minds of the People. * * *
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I am &c
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ED: CORNWALLIS.
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His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
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Part of a letter from Abbe Maillard to Girard, dated at Beaubassin, 3 May 1749. On juge a propos de prendre des Precautions pour se maintener en possession de Beaubassin Messrs de la Galessoniere and Bigot ont envoye a cet effet un Detachement de Francois et des Sauvages hyberner dans la riviere de St Jean pour etre a portee de se rendre en tems et lieu a Beaubassin. Ce detachment est command par Boisbert. Les ci-dessus nonmes ecrivent au Commandant Futur de Louisburg pour envoyer aussitot que faire se pourra munitions, Provisions et Hommes.*
* Antoine Simon Maillard was sent out to Canada by the Society of Foreign Missions at Paris, about the year 1734, and afterwards became a missionary to the Indians and French of Acadia and Cape Breton. He received a written approval from Governor Cornwallis as a cure in the Province in October, 1749. He was Vicar General at Louisburg for several years; and after the capture of that place in 1758, he remained among the Indians and French at St. Peter's, in Cape Breton, and in the eastern part of Nova Scotia, until 1759, when he was invited by the Government to settle at Halifax, and to use his influence to quiet the Micmacs, for which service he received an annual stipend. Though in early life he united with the other priests in opposing British authority, he afterwards became a strenuous supporter of the Government under which he lived, and was much respected at Halifax, where he lived on terms of friendship and intimacy with the principal inhabitants, particularly with the Rev. Thomas Wood, assistant minister of St. Paul's, to whom he imparted a know-
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