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Minutes of H. M. Council, 1736-1749. |
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in Saveing the Vessell and Cargo in which the said crew were killed he was Told That if he could so do and carry her to Canso with all That can be sav'd of the Cargo That upon his Applying to the owner or claimer, If there or in Their Absence to the Judge of the Admiralty, That he would certainly have all the Lawfull Satisfaction he could Require And a "Copy" of said Minute being Ordered to be Translated into french and Given to said Clearemont for his Present satisfaction his Honour the President by And with the Advice and consent of the Board Thereunto subjoin'd his following warrant for Said Clearemonts Proceeding and Acting as he had Promiss'd.
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To wit. In consequence of the above Minute I do Hereby by and with the Advice and consent of his Majesty's said Council Authorize Empower and Warrant you the said Antoine Gilbert alias Clearemont to Act do and Perform to the Uttmost of your Power Everything Therein Contain'd and That with all Expedition you Bring hither, if you can Possibly Take and Apprehend all the Malefactors or anyone or more of them mention'd in your Declaration, you shall for your So doing be Rewarded as therein Promiss'd Upon your so Bringing the Chief or anyone or more of said; Malefactors here to Justice. Given at his Majesty's fort of Annapolis Royal The fifth Day of May in the Seventeenth year of The Reign of his Majesty George the Second of Great Britain France and Ireland. King Defender of the Faith and so forth and in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and forty four.
Extract by his Honour the Presidents Command
Wm Shirreff, Secy.
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The Declaration of one Antoine Gilbert Taken by an Interpreter who thereby Relates as follows, Vizt. Antoine Gilbert alias Claremont, from Louisbourg Winter'd Last fall at the Grand Pre of Mines from whence he Return'd to the Eastern Coast about Easter to see in what Condition The Effects he had Left There were in, That at Theodore he mett with six Indians Belonging to Chickabenakady Tribe, of whom the Chief Called Renne Madogonouit was one and Told him, The said Claremont That they had Taken an English Vessell, whereof the Masters Name was Rich or Ridge "Belonging to one Tasker, And that They had killed the whole Equipage Except a Boy, the Number killed being five and that the said Chief Told that he Took out his Commission and said to the Rest That were with him, That his Commission Order'd him to kill the Englishmen. Whereupon They Immediately fell upon Them and put Them to Death that the Boy who speaks french Told him to the Same purpose what the Chief and the other Savages had Done, And That he had Engrav'd upon a stone an account of what had Pass'd and Befallen him and the Vessell, That such English as might Come There might know their fate which the Indians suspecting They Broke the Stone in Peices and Threw it into the sea or River That being Thus Inform'd he made what Dispatch he could to Inform the Government here and Says That if the Government will Instruct and
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