[185] _Offres de la France; Demandes de l'Angleterre et Reponses de la France, in Memorials of the English and French Commissaries concerning the Limits of Acadia._ [186] _Memoire du Roy a ses Plenipotentiaires, 20 Mars, 1712._ [187] _Precis de ce qui s'est passe pendant la Negotiation de la Paix d'Utrecht au Sujet de l'Acadie; Juillet, 1711-Mai, 1712._ [188] _Memoire du Roy, 20 Avril, 1712._ [189] _Memoire sur l'Isle du Cap Breton_, 1709. [190] _Le Roy a Costebelle, 29 Septembre, 1713._ [191] _Recensement des Habitans de Plaisance et Iles de St. Pierre, rendus a Louisbourg avec leurs Femmes et Enfans, 5 Novembre, 1714._ [192] _Costebelle au Ministre, 19 Juillet, 1713._ [193] _Felix Pain a 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 a ----, 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] _Ecrit des Habitants d'Annapolis Royale, 25 Aoust, 1714_; _Memoire de La Ronde Denys, 30 Aoust, 1714_. [200] In 1711, however, the missionary Felix Pain says, "The English have treated the Acadians with much humanity."--_Pere Felix a ----, 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 Abbe Casgrain in _Canada Francais_, i. 411-414; also the documentary supplement of the same publication. [204] _La Ronde Denys au Ministre, 3 Decembre, 1715._ [205] _Costebelle au Ministre, 15 Janvier, 1715._ [206] _Governor Mascarene to the Secretary of State, 1 December, 1743._ At this time there was also a blockhouse at Canseau, where a few soldiers were stationed. These were then the only British posts in the province. In May, 1727, Philipps wrote to the Lords of Trade: "Everything there [at Annapolis] is wearing the face of ruin and decay," and the ramparts are "lying level with the ground in breaches sufficiently wide for fifty men to enter abreast."