Note 929 — Chapter VII
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The Rev. George Patterson, D. D., of New Glasgow, N. S., contributed in 1885 to the Eastern Chronicle, published in that town, a series of papers on “Samuel Vetch, first English governor of Nova Scotia.” Cf. also J. G. Wilson on “Samuel Vetch, governor of Acadia” in International Review, xi. 462; and The Scot in British North America (Toronto, 1880), i. p. 288. There is also in the Nova Scotia Historical Collections, vol. iv., a memoir of Samuel Vetch by Dr. Patterson, including papers of his administration in Nova Scotia, 1710-13, with Paul Mascarene’s narrative of events at Annapolis, Oct., 1710 to Sept., 1711, dated at Boston, Nov. 6, 1713; as also a “journal of a voyage designed to Quebeck from Boston, July, 1711,” in Sir Hovenden Walker’s expedition. (See the following chapter.)