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BNL.747.007
5 Mar 1747:11,12 (2342)
Boston. On Thursday night last Capt. Benjamin Godthwait
arrived here express in the ordnance packet from Annapolis
royal, with the following advices,
That on Saturday the 31st of January, before daylight, a
party of Canadians, French inhabitants of the Island of St.
John's in Bay-Vert . . . having made a march of three weeks
from Schegnecto in the excessive severity of the late
season, and where the roads were thought impassable, arrived
at the Grand Pre' in Minas, and surprized the detachment of
our troops . . . and not one day's provision in bread, they
judg'd it most advisable to accept of honourable terms from
the enemy, which were most readily granted 'em; the
substance of which we hear is as follows, viz. "That they
should have all their arms, accoutrements and cloathing,
with six days provisions, a pound of powder, and a
proportion of ball for each man, and march out with their
drums beating and colours flying, and proceed to his
Majesty's garrison at Annapolis-Royal without molestation; .
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