Ce tableau, ainsi que tant d’autres rapports, avait disparu des archives au temps où écrivait le Dr. Brown. Il lui fut fourni par Richard Bulkeley, qui avait été secrétaire du conseil au temps de Lawrence, et qui vivait encore à cette époque (1790)[1] ; Il (Bulkeley) ajoute au bas de ce tableau : « N. B. J’ai commis une sottise en perdant la liste principale de ceux qui se sont embarqués, mais le nombre de per-
- ↑ Dans les Doc. in. sur l’Acadie (C. F. 140) il y a une note au bas de la page qui porte ce qui suit : « Mr. Bulkeley can furnish you with an exact list of all the transports who carried these people away and the number of neutrals as the returns was made to him. — (Note du manuscrit du Dr. Brown.)
trouvait parmi les Brown’s MS. Quelle valeur a-t-il ? — Nous donnons ci-après un tableau d’après le journal de Winslow, relatif au premier embarquement :
« Gentlemen,
Since the foregoing Capt. Murray has come from Pizquid with upwards of 1000 people in four vessels — Taken up coll. Dunniels sloop, who I have supplied with 8½ tun of water cask some of which I bought and some my own and hope you wont forget to charge the government the same, as if bought in Boston in that sloops account, and crédit may account with the money he has. I am now able to give you an account of our embarkation having filled what transports I have and are as follows :
Vessels names | Masters | Numbers | Where bound | |
Hannah | Adams | 140 | Pensylvania | |
Swan | Hazlum | 168 | " | |
Sally and Molly | Purrington | 154 | Virginia | Total 364 |
Mary | Dunning | 182 | Total 831 | |
Prosperous | Bradgton | 152 | Maryland | |
Encheere | Stone | 166 | " | |
Industry | Goodwin | 177 | Total 364 | |
Leopard | Church | 178 | ||
Milbury | 186 | 1498 |
1598 and have 500 left for want of transports Capt. Murray has shipt from Pizquid his whole and are upwards of 1000. W.’sh you every happiness etc.</>
To Messrs Apthorp and Hancock. » — (Journal. P. 178.)