Note 976 — Chapter VII · (continued 2)

Cf. references in Barry’s Mass., ii. 199. The journal of Winslow during the siege in the summer and autumn of 1755 is printed from the original MS. in the Mass. Hist. Soc. library, in the Nova Scotia Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. iv. Tracts of the time indicate the disparagement which the provincial men received during these events from the regular officers. Cf. Account of the present state of Nova Scotia in two letters to a noble lord,—one from a gentleman in the navy lately arrived from thence; the other from a gentleman who long resided there, London, 1756. Cf. also French policy defeated, being an account of all the hostile proceedings of the French against the British colonies in North America for the last seven years, ... with an account of the naval engagement of Newfoundland and the taking of the forts in the Bay of Fundy, London, 1755. (Carter-Brown, iii. no. 1,060.)