By far the best account of this French victory at Mines is that of Beaujeu, in his _Journal de la Campagne du Détachement de Canada à l’Acadie et aux Mines en 1746-47_. It is preserved in the Archives de la Marine et des Colonies, and is printed in the documentary supplement of _Le Canada Français_, Vol. II. It supplies the means of correcting many errors and much confusion in some recent accounts of the affair. The report of Chevalier de la Corne, also printed in _Le Canada Français_, though much shorter, is necessary to a clear understanding of the matter. Letters of Lusignan fils to the minister Maurepas, 10 October, 1747, of Bishop Pontbriand (to Maurepas?), 10 July, 1747, and of Lusignan père to Maurepas, 10 October, 1747, give some additional incidents. The principal document on the English side is the report of Captain Benjamin Goldthwait, who succeeded Noble in command. A copy of the original, in the Public Record Office, is before me. The substance of it is correctly given in _The Boston Post Boy_ of 2 March, 1747, and in _N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg._ x. 108. Various letters from Mascarene and Shirley (Public Record Office) contain accounts derived from returned officers and soldiers. The _Notice of Colonel Arthur Noble_, by William Goold (_Collections Maine Historical Soc._, 1881), may also be consulted. [216] _Ramesay aux Députés et Habitants des Mines, 31 Mars, 1747._ At the end is written “A true copy, with the misspellings: signed W. Shirley.” [217] _Shirley to Newcastle, 24 August, 1747._ [218] “Ainsis Monsieur nous vous prions de regarder notre bon Cœur et en même Temps notre Impuissance pauvre Peuple chargez la plus part de familles nombreuse point de Recours sil falois evacuer a quoy nous sommes menacez tous les jours qui nous tien dans une Crainte perpetuelle en nous voyant a la proximitet de nos maitre depuis un sy grand nombre dannes” (printed _literatim_).--_Deputés des Mines à Ramesay, 24 Mai, 1747._ [219] This probably explains the bad spelling of the letter, the copy before me having been made from the Acadian transcript sent to Mascarene, and now in the Public Record Office. [220] _Les Habitants à l’honorable gouverneur au for d’anapolisse royal_ [sic], _Mai (?), 1747_. On the 27th of June the inhabitants of Cobequid wrote again to Mascarene: “Monsieur nous prenons la Liberte de vous recrire celle icy pour vous assurer de nos tres humble Respect et d’un entiere Sou-mission a vos Ordres” (_literatim_).