The chief French accounts
are _Entreprise des Anglois contre l'Acadie, 26 Juin, 1707_; _Subercase
au Ministre, meme date_; _Labat au Ministre, 6 Juillet, 1707_;
_Relation_ appended to Diereville, _Voyage de l'Acadie_. The last is
extremely loose and fanciful. Subercase puts the English force at three
thousand men, whereas the official returns show it to have been,
soldiers and sailors, about half this number.

[120] Penhallow puts the French force at five hundred and fifty.
Jeremiah Dummer, _Letter to a Noble Lord concerning the late Expedition
to Canada_, says that the havoc committed occasioned a total loss of
L80,000.

[121] _Saint-Ovide au Ministre, 20 Janvier, 1709_; _Ibid., 6 Septembre,
1709_; _Rapport de Costebelle, 26 Fevrier, 1709_. Costebelle makes the
French force one hundred and seventy-five.

[122] Some of the French officials in Acadia foresaw aggressive action
on the part of the English in consequence of the massacre at Haverhill.
"Le coup que les Canadiens viennent de faire, ou Mars, plus feroce qu'en
Europe, a donne carriere a sa rage, me fait apprehender une
represaille."--_De Goutin au Ministre, 29 Decembre, 1708._

[123] Patterson, _Memoir of Hon. Samuel Vetch_, in _Collections of the
Nova Scotia Historical Society_, iv. Compare a paper by General James
Grant Wilson in _International Review_, November, 1881.

[124] _Instructions to Colonel Vetch, 1 March, 1709_; _The Earl of
Sunderland to Dudley, 28 April, 1709_; _The Queen to Lord Lovelace, 1
March, 1709_; _The Earl of Sunderland to Lord Lovelace, 28 April, 1709._

[125] _Journal of Vetch and Nicholson_ (Public Record Office). This is
in the form of a letter, signed by both, and dated at New York, 29 June,
1709.

[126] _Thomas Cockerill to Mr. Popple, 2 July, 1709._

[127] Joncaire in _N. Y. Col. Docs._, ix. 838.

[128] Mareuil in _N. Y. Col. Docs._, ix. 836, text and note. _Vaudreuil
au Ministre, 14 Novembre, 1709._

[129] "If I had not accepted the command, there would have
been insuperable difficulties" (arising from provincial
jealousies).--_Nicholson to Sunderland, 8 July, 1709._

[130] Forts Nicholson, Lydius, and Edward were not the same, but
succeeded each other on the same ground.

[131] _Memoire sur le Canada, Annee 1709._ This paper, which has been
ascribed to the engineer De Lery, is printed in _Collection de
Manuscrits relatifs a la Nouvelle France_, i. 615 (Quebec, 1883),
printed from the MS. _Paris Documents_ in the Bo