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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
ass the infant settlements, the English governor dealt still more summarily. The land on which you sleep is mine: such was the message of the implacable tribe; Micmac Indians to Governor Cornwallis, 23 September, 1749. I sprung out of it as the grass does; I was born on it from sire to son; it is mine forever. So the council at Halifax Resolutions of Council, Halifax, 1 October, 1749. voted all the poor Red Men that dwelt in the peninsula These Micmacks include the Cape Sable, St. John's Island, Cape Breton and all inhabiting the peninsula. Cornwallis to the Board of Trade. to be so many banditti, ruffians, or rebels; and by its authority Cornwallis, to bring the rascals to reason, Cornwallis to the Board of Trade, 17 October, 1749. offered for every one of them taken or killed ten guineas, to be paid on producing the savage or his scalp. Proclamation against the Micmac Indians, 2 October, 1749. But the source of this disorder was the undefined state of possession betw