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ll three are reprinted in _Mass. Hist. Coll., 5th Series_, vi. [88] Hutchinson, ii. 194. [89] The agent of Massachusetts at London, speaking of the three chief offenders, says that they were neither "of English extraction, nor natives of the place, and two of them were very new comers." Jeremiah Dummer, _Letter to a Noble Lord concerning the late Expedition to Canada_. [90] The French naval captain Bonaventure says that the Acadians were forced to depend on Boston traders, who sometimes plundered them, and sometimes sold them supplies. (_Bonaventure au Ministre, 30 Novembre, 1705._) Colonel Quary, Judge of Admiralty at New York, writes: "There hath been and still is, as I am informed, a Trade carried on with Port Royal by some of the topping men of that government [Boston], under colour of sending and receiving Flaggs of truce."--_Quary to the Lords of Trade, 10 January, 1708._ [91] _Council Record_, in Hutchinson, ii. 144. [92] These addresses are appended to _A Modest Inquiry into the Grounds and Occasions of a late Pamphlet intituled a Memorial of the present Deplorable State of New England. London, 1707._ CHAPTER VI. 1700-1710. THE OLD REGIME IN ACADIA. The Fishery Question.--Privateers and Pirates.--Port Royal.--Official Gossip.--Abuse of Brouillan.--Complaints of De Goutin.--Subercase and his Officers.--Church and State.--Paternal Government. The French province of Acadia, answering to the present Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, was a government separate from Canada and subordinate to it. Jacques Francois de Brouillan, appointed to command it, landed at Chibucto, the site of Halifax, in 1702, and crossed by hills and forests to the Basin of Mines, where he found a small but prosperous settlement. "It seems to me," he wrote to the minister, "that these people live like true republicans, acknowledging neither royal authority nor courts of law."[93] It was merely that their remoteness and isolation made them independent, of necessity, so far as concerned temporal government. When Brouillan reached Port Royal he found a different state of things. The fort and garrison were in bad condition; but the adjacent settlement, primitive as it was, appeared on the whole duly submissive. Possibly it would have been less so if it had been more prosperous; but the inhabitants had lately been deprived of fishing, their best resource, by a New England privateer which had driven their craft from the n
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