I shall have the orders
for assembling ready written for your approbation, only the day blank,
and am hopeful everything will succeed according to our wishes. The
gentlemen join me in our best compliments to you and the Doctor."
On the next day, Sunday, Winslow and the Doctor, whose name was
Whitworth, made the tour of the neighborhood, with an escort of fifty
men, and found a great quantity of wheat still on the fields. On Tuesday
Winslow "set out in a whale-boat with Dr. Whitworth and Adjutant
Kennedy, to consult with Captain Murray in this critical conjuncture."
They agreed that three in the afternoon of Friday should be the time of
assembling; then between them they drew up a summons to the inhabitants,
and got one Beauchamp, a merchant, to "put it into French." It ran as
follows:--
By John Winslow, Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel and Commander of His
Majesty's troops at Grand Pre, Mines, River Canard, and places
adjacent.
To the inhabitants of the districts above named, as well ancients
as young men and lads.
Whereas His Excellency the Governor has instructed us of his last
resolution respecting the matters proposed lately to the
inhabitants, and has ordered us to communicate the same to the
inhabitants in general in person, His Excellency being desirous
that each of them should be fully satisfied of His Majesty's
intentions, which he has also ordered us to communicate to you,
such as they have been given him.
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