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Orders to the Lords of the Admiralty, to direct the Commissioners for Sick and hurt Seamen to secure and maintain them.
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As the recall of the two thousand New England troops puts an end to any view which might have been entertained of converting them into Settlers upon the lands left vacant by the transportation of the French inhabitants, We shall remain extremely anxious till We hear What occurs to you with respect to the settlement of those Lands, which appear to Us to be an object of the utmost importance, and on the right Determination of which the future strength and Prosperity of the Colony greatly depend.
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Lieut. Governor Spencer Phips to Governor Lawrence.
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BOSTON, 23 July, 1756.
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SIR, —
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I have just received information that seven boats, with about ninety of the French Inhabitants of Nova Scotia, having coasted along shore from Georgia or South Carolina, whither they had been sent from your Government, had put into a harbour in the southern part of this province. I have hereupon ordered their persons and boats to be secured and three or four of them sent to Boston in order to be examined.
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Your Excellency is sensible that a very great number have already been received and supported here, a number much beyond our proportion in case they were to have been distributed among the Colonies by a rule of that kind, and a number greater than your Excellency originally designed to send here. Notwithstanding this, I am fully of opinion that it would be unsafe to suffer them to proceed any further; the General Assembly is to sit here on the 11th of August, and as his Majesty's Council apprehend they will be very averse to receive this additional number into the Government, they have therefore desired me to write to your Excellency and ask your further care of this people, that so they may not remain a burthen upon this Province, I am with great respect
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Sir,
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Your Excellency's
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most obt. humble servt.,
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To His Excellency
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S. PHIPS.
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To His Excellency Charles Lawrence, Esq. }
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Indorsed — Rec'd in per
9 August.
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