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such ample testimony of their wish to participate in the lenity of it; His Majesty thinks that this disposition ought to be encouraged by holding out every Advantage that can be given to them consistent, with public safety, and therefore you will not fail to give them the fullest Assurances of His Majesty's favor and protection, and of His gracious intention to compensate them as far as may be for the Deprivation of those benefits they had so rashly forfeited by too obstinate an Adherence to their Prejudices in favor of the Government of France.
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His Majesty considers with Tenderness and Attention, the Situation of those who have made Settlements in Cape Breton under the Protection of temporary Licenses from the Government of Nova Scotia, and Care will be taken that whatever Plan shall be adopted for the Distribution of Lands in that Island, a due Regard be had to their Improvements.
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Lieut. Governor Francklin to Isaac Deschamps. *
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(Letter Book.)
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HALIFAX, 1st June, 1768.
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SIR, —
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It is with great pleasure I find by your letter of the 30 May so many of the Accadians resident in King's County and the District of Windsor, are at length come to a sense of their duty to the King, by taking the Oaths of Allegiance, and I have it in Command from His Majesty to give them the fullest Assurances of His Royal Favor and protection.
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And you may also give them from me the fullest assurances that I totally disclaim and disavow any Intentions to make use
ing the Government was greatly instrumental in preserving the tranquillity of Nova Scotia during the period of the American revolt. In his letters to England he frequently complains of unfair treatment by Mr. Legg, who for several years held the appointment of Governor in Chief. Gov’r. Francklin married a daughter of Joseph Bouteneau, of Boston, who was a grand daughter of Mr. Peter Faneuil of that city. He had several children; the late James B. Francklin, for forty years Clerk of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, was his eldest son, whose only daughter married the Revd. R. F. Uniacke, Rector of St. George's, Halifax. Governor Francklin died at Halifax on 8th Nov., 1782. N.S. MS. Doc.; Council Books; Murdoch's N.S., 2 vol., 413, 461, 504, 564, 568, 571, 591; Nova Scotia Almanacs.
* Isaac Deschamps was of Swiss extraction. He came to Nova Scotia early in life. He was at Fort Edward (Windsor) in 1754, as Clerk to Mr. Joshua
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