An Event Chronology Based on Louisbourg Accounts Not Available in the Archives of the Fortress of Louisbourg, By Eric Krause, Krause House Info-Research Solutions, 2004 - Present

1737

• June 2, 1737
  Pennsylvania Gazette (Fair Use © Accessible Gazette Inc.)

To the Author of the Daily Post of February 18, 1736,7.

The French now attempt universal Trade, and turn their Care to the increasing Plantations. In Africa they have monopoliz'd the Gum, incroach'd upon the English Settlements in Gambia, and outbid them in the Slave Trade. In the East Indies, they have increas'd beyond Imagination. In America they have encourag'd their Sugar Islands, so as almost to ruin ours: They have a great Settlement in South America, which incroaches upon the Dutch and Spaniards. In North America they seem to pursue the Scheme of Louis XIV. for uniting their Colonies from Canada to the Bay of Mexico, thereby surrounding the English, that they may, in Case of a War, render themselves capable of mastering all our Plantations.

They possess Cape Briton in the Mouth of the River Canada, which they have fortify'd very strongly ...