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where in the Woods about this River among the Indians pursuing his former practices of obstructing H.M. service and exciting the savages to mischief. To prevent which I thought proper by an order, published at the Mass House to command him to be gone out of the province in a month's time.
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Governor Philipps to the Duke of Newcastle.*
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ANNAPOLIS ROYAL
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January 3rd 1729.
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My LORD DUKE, —
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* * * * * I have appointed the next week for the receiving the submission of the French Inhabitants of this River, and am assured that those of Minas and the other settlements at the head of the Great Bay of Fundi are resolved to follow their example, but the winter being set in, and no possibility of having it done till the Navigation becomes practicable, will see it finished before I set out for Canso and transmit an account thereof.
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Thus far a duplicate of my last.
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As the bringing the French Inhabitants of this Province to an entire submission and due allegiance to the King (who are at this time a great body of people) has been thought a work of very great consequence to its safety and welfare, and therefore takes up a considerable part in His Majesty's Instructions to the Governor; Your Grace will now see by the enclosed Parchments and the progress made therein in less than three weeks, that I have had that matter at heart and my hopes of succeeding not to have been ill-grounded.
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The subscribers thereto are the whole settlement of this River to a man, from Sixteen years of age upwards, whereto they are pleased to express that the good likeing they have to my Government in comparison of what they experienced afterwards, did not a little contribute, and therefore reserved this honor for me; indeed I have had no occasion to make use of threats or compulsion, nor have I prostituted the King's Honor in making a scandalous capitulation in his name and contrary
* Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, was the son of Lord Pelham by Lady Grace Holles, sister to John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and assumed the name of Holles under the will of his uncle. He was born in the year 1693, and after occupying several important posts under the Crown, was appointed one of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State in the year 1724, and again appointed to) the same office in 1746. He held office until 1754, and was succeeded by Sir Thomas Robinson. — Collins' Peerage.
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