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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)
brooded over the plates which he buried at the mouth of every remarkable creek. We know, thus they murmured, it is done to steal our country from us; and they resolved to go to the Onondaga council for protection. Croghan's Ms. Account of his Transactions, &c. &c. On the northeast, the well informed La Galissoniere took advantage of the gentle and unsuspecting character of the Acadians themselves, and of the doubt that existed respecting occupancy and ancient titles. In 1710, when Port Royal, now Annapolis, was vacated, the fort near the mouth of the St. John's remained to France. The English had no settlement on that river; and though they had, on appeal to their tribunals, exercised some sort of jurisdiction, it had not been clearly recognised by the few inhabit- chap. II.} 1749. ants, and had always been denied by the French government. It began to be insinuated, La Galissoniere to Col. Mascarene, 15 January, 1749. that the ceded Acadia was but a part of the peninsul