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Antoine Landry
Pierre X Richard ancien
Joseph X Granger
R LeBlanc
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Des Mines
Ie 10 d'Octobre 1744
A Bourg Notaire des Mines Je Veut bien Messieur en Vostre Consideration satisfaire avos demande ce 13 e 8 bre 1744
Le Che de Ganne
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At a Council held at the place aforesaid May 2nd, 1745, The Same Members present Otho Hamilton Esq excepted.
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His Honor acquainted the Board that on information given him that some intelligence was come from Mines and known by several of the inhabitants without any of them having come to give any notice of it he sent out in the night a party of 50 men with the fort Major and two officers to bring those of the inhabitants of the Cape whom he should find could make a discovery of the aforesaid intelligence, who accordingly brought Mrs. Mary Gautier, Francis Raymond, James Raymond, Joseph Raymond, Peter and Joseph Landry and Paul Suratt, who being kept apart and severally examined upon Oath (all but Paul Suratt) deposed as by their several depositions upon file will appear, the substance whereof is that Pierre Le Prince son of John Le Prince, an inhabitant up this river, came to Nicholas Gautier's about a week ago and asked Peter Gautier to go up the river with him pretending he wanted him to assist in making a canoe of a tree they had fallen on said Gautier's father's ground — that the said Le Prince had reported at Gautiers that Charles Raymond and Peter Landry were at Le Basques who were informed that there were 300 Canadians and 300 Indians at Mines Commanded by several Offiœrs with an Engineer and Surgeon that old Suratt either died their or was killed by the Indians — that Renne LeBlanc was also killed — that Gautier's schooner had been employed in transporting the said Canadians from Chignecto across the Bason of Mines — that a fleet of English vessels had been seen standing to the eastward along the Cape Sable shore about a month ago — that it was near a month since the enemy up the Bay had received any news from Lewisbourg — and that by their last accounts they daily expected a fleet from France — that the two lads beforementioned had privately made three several journeys this spring from Mines into this river — that Peter Gautier had cautioned said deponents from publishing the arrival of the aforesaid lads and what they reported.
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After some consultation it was resolved that Paul Suratt who had not ingenuously declared what he knew but appeared by having been prompted to it by ill advice, to have receded from what he had in the morning declared to the fort Major, should be kept in prison as well as Mrs. Gautier
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