These deputies are expected about the end of the month perhaps I shall see the replies which they will bring, and you shall then see what the politicians and casuists will have decided upon. De Vergor, has made the finest observations on this petition and I have assisted him in manufacturing some very long letters, in the form of dissertations for the General, the Bishop, and the Intendant. Moses, ever vigilant and active, having had communication through M. You will have known that on the 21st of last month, 83 of the refugees sent two of their deputies to carry their petition to the general of Canada, asking for authority to return to their old possessions, since we cannot give them on our side land suitable for cultivation and stating that those which are offered them are in places disputed by the English - that they are not released from the oath which they have taken to the king of Great Britain and that, if taken among the French, they are threatened with being punished as criminals.

Workmen have just been ordered to finish the fort, and to repair the road to Bay Verte, which is almost impracticable for carriages. This same Moses has since sent some emissaries to the priest Chauvreux, who report that Daudin had been transferred to Halifax and yesterday, Sunday, he preached not less violently than on the preceding Sunday, concerning the persecuted Daudin but he added that he was going to be sent to England. Moses was present and played the part of Aaron.

These poor people retired without compliment. This letter, as you can well imagine I had been prepared at the instance of Moses† himself. Its tendency is to urge them to stay with the French and to establish themselves. De Vergor's clerk read to them the letter, which is in terms more polite. As they seemed in no hurry to enter, the impatient commander went to his door and called them himself, and in order to induce them to enter more rapidly, he threatened to put them in irons, and spoke to them in the harshest manner.Īfter they had got in, M. Monsieur de Vergor* sent a sergeant twice, to summon them a score of them arrived in the fort. He then told these poor refugees to appear, after mass, at the commandant's who had a letter from the general of Canada for them. The vehemence, or rather the petulance, with which he preached, exhausted him to such an extent that he was obliged to go at it twice.

That when they return to the other side, they will have neither priests nor sacraments, but will die like miserable wretches. He afterwards represented to them what they - the refugees - had to expect from the English. The next day - Sunday - Moses preached a most violent sermon, in which he singularly accommodated the British nation, and concluded by saying offensive things to the refugees, whose crimes are, in his opinion, the sole cause of the detention of a holy man. We heard of it in the evening of the 7th by a man of the name of Jacob Michel from Port Royal, who was to bring papers from that priest to Moses, which would have been found, no doubt, had a strict search been made in arresting him. Daudin's affair is causing a good deal of noise. I expected to receive one from you since, and because I am tired of waiting for the pleasure of hearing from you, I am now going to tell you all that I know, for the purpose of inducing you to write. I believe I replied to the letter with which you honored me two months ago. Acadian Ancestral Home:Thomas Pichon, Spy of Beausejour:BeaubassinĪ letter from Thomas Pichon* to Captain Scott.

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