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were again in jeopardy, but were eventually confirmed. In 1662 created by Charles II a baronet of Nova Scotia, and again appointed governor. In 1667 Nova Scotia was ceded to France, and in 1670 forced to resign his claims to the territory. Afterwards settled in Boston, finally returning to England. =Index=: =F= English governor of Acadia, 1656, 268. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Murdoch, _History of Nova Scotia_. =Tessoueat.= =Ch= Algonquian chief, 10, 75, 77. =Tetes de Boule.= =Hd= Indian tribe trading at Three Rivers, 54. =Tetu.= =Hd= On Haldimand. 291. =Theatre.= =F= At Quebec, 336. =Hd= Allan Maclean's effort for, 306-307; attempt to produce Moliere's _Les Fourberies de Scapin_, 307. =Themines, Pons de Lauziere, Marquis de= (1552-1627). Marshal of France. =Index=: =Ch= Temporary viceroy of New France, 123. =Thierry-Desdames.= =Ch= Company's clerk at Quebec, 121, 138; sent to St. Barnabe Island, 173. =Thom, Adam.= Born in Scotland. Educated at King's College, Aberdeen. Came to Canada, and practised law in Montreal. Appointed recorder of Rupert's Land, 1838, and arrived in the Red River Settlement the following year. Also legal adviser to the governor of Assiniboia. His arbitrary conduct made him extremely unpopular, especially among the French half-breeds, and he was compelled to retire from the bench in 1849. The following year reinstated, to try a complicated case of defamatory conspiracy, but the verdict proved so unsatisfactory that Governor Caldwell procured his permanent removal, and had him appointed clerk of the court. Resigned this office in 1854, and returned to Scotland. =Index=: =MS= Governor Simpson makes him recorder of Red River, 1839, 245; opposes Papineau in Lower Canada, 245; his newspaper letters signed "Camillus," 245; on Durham's staff, 245; returns with him to England, 245; his influence in Red River affairs, 246; the "stormy petrel," of the Settlement, 247; returns to England, 1854, 247; his connection with Simpson's narrative of his journey round the world, 249. =Bib.=: Bryce, _Manitoba_ and _Hudson's Bay Company_; Ross, _Red River Settlement_; Begg, _History of the North-West_. _See also_ Red River Colony. =Thomas, John= (1725-1776). Born in Marshfield, Mass. Surgeon in a regiment sent to Annapolis Royal, 1746; and in 1747 surgeon, and afterwards lieutenant, in Shirley's Regiment. In 1759 promoted colonel of Provincials, and in 1760 commanded a regiment at the capture of Mont
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