An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . orture, anddeath ; or, if spared, they were dragged by long marches throughtrackless forests, suffering intolerable hardships. Many were car-ried to Louisbourg, where they were purchased as an article of mer-chandise. The French professed themselves actuated solely by awish to save them from the dreadful fate that otherwise awaitedthem; yet these tender feelings, it was observed,
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . orture, anddeath ; or, if spared, they were dragged by long marches throughtrackless forests, suffering intolerable hardships. Many were car-ried to Louisbourg, where they were purchased as an article of mer-chandise. The French professed themselves actuated solely by awish to save them from the dreadful fate that otherwise awaitedthem; yet these tender feelings, it was observed, never preventedihein from extortiiiji most exorbitant ransoms. There is great rea NEW BRUNSWICK. 177 son to believe, that no means were employed to conciliate this unfor-lunate and injured race. It was determined to treat them, not asregular enemies, but as traitors and rebels; and that they might berivalled in barbarity, a price was put upon Indian scalps. Another circumstance which placed the colony in an uneasy situation, was the boundary contests with France. The history of thiftaffair, however, which brought on the bloody conflicts of the SevenYears War, will come under our notice in a subsequent chaptei. II. NEW BRUNSWICK. EW BRUNSWICK did not exist asa separate colony, until 1783. Pre-vious to this, the French had claimedit under the title of New France, aspart of Acadia, and the English, intheir turn, as part of Nova the latter province was cededto the British government, Francestill claimed New Brunswick aspart of Canada; but the peace of1763 settled these conflicting claims, by giving the whole provinceto England. Still, it was left unoccupied except by a few Acadians,who had sought refuge among its forests from the relentless perse-cution to which they were exposed. In 1762, some families from
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