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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
1731
From the Free Briton, April 15.
A LETTER on the Bill now depending in Parliament,
concerning the British Sugar Colonies in America.
To Francis Walsingham, of the Inner Temple, Esq;
... Methinks I see 300 Sail of Vessels, either left to rot, or sold our Rivals; and at least ten Times that Number of Men left to starve, or go into the Service of the French, or turn Pirates. Methinks I see many Thousands of Fishermen under the Necessity of obtaining French Rum, French Brandy, and other Necessaries, because they can have them cheapest from cape breton. Methinks I see many of the industrious French encouraging our Fishermen and Sailors, the best in the World, to reside and live among them. Methinks I see our best and most profitable Northern Colonies, ruined by the French,, who must increase and flourish in proportion to any Restraints we lay upon our Trade. ....
[July 15, 1731]
... If they could be supplied no other way, there might be a Colour for this Pretence; but, put an End to this Trade, and they will soon find out another Market to buy at, as they did to sell at, when they were drove out of their Trade to Barbadoes: They have cape breton, Canada, and other Northern Settlements of their own, as also the Bay of Apalachy and Mississippi, which the French Government would be glad to improve. ...
Boston, July 26.
... A French Sloop bound from Cape Francois to cape breton, one Le Part Master, put in here on Tuesday last to recruit, having as they say, been taken by a Spanish Pirate in their Passage, who plundered them of most of their Provision and Cloathing, and the left them....