[185] _Offres de la France; Demandes de l'Angleterre et Réponses de la France, in Memorials of the English and French Commissaries concerning the Limits of Acadia._
[186] _Mémoire du Roy à ses Plénipotentiaires, 20 Mars, 1712._
[187] _Précis de ce qui s'est passé pendant la Négotiation de la Paix d'Utrecht au Sujet de l'Acadie; Juillet, 1711-Mai, 1712._
[189] _Mémoire sur l'Isle du Cap Breton_, 1709.
[190] _Le Roy à Costebelle, 29 Septembre, 1713._
[191] _Recensement des Habitans de Plaisance et Iles de St. Pierre, rendus à Louisbourg avec leurs Femmes et Enfans, 5 Novembre, 1714._
[192] _Costebelle au Ministre, 19 Juillet, 1713._
[193] _Félix Pain à Costebelle, 23 Septembre, 1713._
[194] Vetch was styled "General and Commander-in-chief of all his Majesty's troops in these parts, and Governor of the fort of Annapolis Royal, country of l'Accady and Nova Scotia." Hence he was the first English governor of Nova Scotia after its conquest in 1710. He was appointed a second time in 1715, Nicholson having served in the interim.
[195] _Narrative of Paul Mascarene_, addressed to Nicholson. According to French accounts, a pestilence at Annapolis had carried off three fourths of the garrison. _Gaulin à ----, 5 Septembre, 1711_; _Cahouet au Ministre, 20 Juillet, 1711_. In reality a little more than one hundred had died.
[196] Passages from Vetch's letters, in Patterson, _Memoir of Vetch_.
[197] _Vetch to the Earl of Dartmouth, 22 January, 1711_; _Memorial of Council of War at Annapolis, 14 October, 1710_.
[198] Costebelle, _Instruction au Capitaine de la Ronde_, 1714.
[199] _Écrit des Habitants d'Annapolis Royale, 25 Aoust, 1714_; _Mémoire de La Ronde Denys, 30 Aoust, 1714_.
[200] In 1711, however, the missionary Félix Pain says, "The English have treated the Acadians with much humanity."--_Père Félix à ----, 8 Septembre, 1711._
[201] This was the oath taken after the capitulation, which bound those who took it to allegiance so long as they remained in the province.
[202] "As he used to curse and Damm Governor Vetch and all his friends, he is now served himself in the same manner."--_Adams to Steele, 24 January, 1715._
[203] For a great number of extracts from documents on this subject see a paper by Abbé Casgrain in _Canada Français_, i. 411-414; also the documentary supplement of the same publication.