defray the expence of obtaining such order, and the proprietors, as
a mark of their gratitude, and esteem of their patron, gave their town
his name, with a small addition to it, and grants were made to all the
resident proprietors, in or about the year 1765. The Indians had
remained peaceable from 1762 to 1765: in this year they assembled
together, and gave threats of immediately commencing a new war against
the English; and the inhabitants of all the frontiers of the Province
were greatly alarmed, and the commander of Fort Frederick doubled his
sentries on the occasion. The pretexts of the Indians were well known
to be mostly false and frivolous, and the commandant and inhabitants
residing near the garrison, took great pains to persuade the Chiefs to
lay their complaints before the Governor, at Halifax, before they
engaged in a war that would eventually prove ruinous to themselves,
which might be prevented by their stating to Government all the grounds
of the injuries they complained of: after little consideration they
agreed to the proposal, and soon after set out for Halifax, accompanied
by one of the inhabitants. Their business on their first arrival, was,
without loss of time, made known to the Governor, who appointed a time
and place to give the Chiefs a hearing of their complaints. They on
examination, could not in any degree, support their heaviest charges,
and in the end, they admitted they had been misinformed. So that the
result of their complaints, amounted to nothing more than that the
inhabitants had frequently killed some Beavers, Moose, and other
animals, but not far from their houses, which the Chiefs alleged was
their exclusive property; and that it was of the condition of a former
treaty that the English settlers should not be allowed to kill any wild
game in any part of the wilderness, beyond the limits of their farms
and improvements. The Governor informed them in his answer, that all
treaties before that time, should be strictly observed, and that if the
inhabitants had in any instance, done anything contrary to such
treaties, they should be severely reprimanded and restrained from
continuing such practices. The Chiefs replied, that it might be out of
their power to pacify their young men, unless the damage before done to
them should be paid. This brought on an inquiry of the Chiefs, what the
alleged damage amounted to. In their answer they highly overrated as
the inhabitants made it clearly appear,