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Source: A Great And Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher; Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005; Page 100.
"Church and his men arrived at Beaubassin in the early daylight of 20 September 1696, but had to await the afternoon high tide before they could land, giving the inhabitants plenty of time to flee into the wood with their goods, some taking the opportunity of firing a few potshots in the direction of Church's vessels. By the time Church led the New Englanders up the trail from the landing toward the Acadian settlement, his men were spoiling for a fight. Ahead they spied a lone fiqure coming toward them, a musket in one hand and a paper in the other. Thinking it might be a trick, Church ordered his men to keep on, and the frightened Acadian turned to run. Halt or be shot, Church shouthed, and with that the man stopped, laid down his musket, and waited as Church's men came up. He identified himself as Germain Bourgeois, oldest son of Jacques Bourgeois, Beaubassin's founder, and he handed Church the paper which he described as "a treaty of neutrality," attesting to the oath of fidelity the inhabitants had sworn to the English monarchs but apparently containing as well a declaration of their intention to remain neutral. Church glanced at the document, "In that case the people had nothing to fear," he declared.
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