Note 930 — Chapter VII

Sabin, ix. p. 525; Harv. Col. lib., 6374.12. The general authorities on the French side are Charlevoix (Shea’s), v. 224, 227, etc., with references, including some strictures on Charlevoix’s account, by De Gannes. An estimate of Subercase by Vaudreuil is in N. Y. Col. Doc., ix. 853. Cf. Garneau’s Canada (1882), ii. 42; E. Rameau, Une Colonie féodale en Amerique—L’Acadie, 1604-1710 (Paris, 1877); Célestin Moreau, L’Acadie Française, 1598-1755, ch. 10 (Paris, 1873). The English side is in Penhallow, p. 59; Hutchinson, ii. 165; Haliburton, i. 85; Williamson, ii. 59; Palfrey, iv. 277; Barry, ii. 100, with references; Hannay, 272; Mem. Hist. Boston, ii. 105. Nicholson’s demand for surrender (Oct. 3), Subercase’s reply (Oct. 12), the latter’s report to the French minister, and a paper, “Moyens de reprendre l’Acadie” (St. Malo, Jan. 10, 1711), are in Collection de Manuscrits (Quebec, 1884), ii. pp. 523, 525, 528, 532. There is in the cabinet of the Mass. Hist. Soc. (Misc. Papers, 41.41) a diagram showing the plan of sailing for the armed vessels and the transports on this expedition, with a list of the signals to be used, and instructions to the commanders of the transports.