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THE ACADIANS BEFORE THEIR MOVAL-When, in 1748, the war ended, the French officials prophesied some signal acts of vengeance on the part of the British against the offending Acadians. On the contrary, they showed great forbearance, and only insisted that all the adult male population should take an oath of allegiance, without any reserve or restriction whatever.

This they would have done if they had been let alone; but they were not let alone. Another war was plainly at hand, and France meditated the reconquest of Acadia. To this end the Acadians must be kept French at heart, and ready, at a signal given, to rise against the English. France had acknowledged them as British subjects, but this did not prevent the agents of Louis XV. from seeking by incessant intrigue to stir them into bitter hostility against the British government. me are two large volumes of papers, about a thousand pages in all, copied from the archives of the Colonial Department at Paris. They relate to these French efforts to rouse the Acadians to

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revolt; and they consist of the journals, dispatches, reports, and letters of officers, military, civil, and ecclesiastical, from the Governor of Canada to a captain of bushrangers, and from the Bishop of Quebec to the curé of Cobequid. They show, by the evidence of the actors themselves, the scope and methods of the machination, to which the King himself appears, in his languid way, as an accessory. The priests of Acadia were the chief agents employed. They taught their parishioners that fidelity to King Louis was inseparable from fidelity to God, and that to swear allegiance to

the British crown would be eternal perdition. Foremost among these apostles of revolt was Le Loutre, missionary to the Micmac Indians, and the VicarGeneral for Acadia under the Bishop of Quebec. His fanatical hatred of the English and the natural violence of his character impelled him to extremes which alarmed his employers, and drew upon him frequent exhortations to caution. He threatened the Acadians with excommunication if they obeyed the King of England. In connection with French officers across the line, he encouraged them to put on the disguise of Indians and join his Micmacs in pillaging and killing English settlers on the outskirts of Halifax when the two nations were at peace. He drew on one occasion from a French official 1,800 livres to pay his Indians for English scalps. With a reckless disregard of the welfare of the unhappy people under his charge, he spared no means to embroil them with the government under which, but for him and his fellow-conspirators, they would have lived in peace and contentment.-DR. FRANCIS PARKMAN, in

Harper's Magazine for November.

A GENTLE REMINDER To the Centinel's patrons residing at a distance, who may happen to be in town. Gentlemen, permit the Centinel to remind you, as you pass, of what the cares of business too frequently occasion your forgetting, that by calling at his convenient post, in State Street, you can very readily obtain the watch words of from and to, the parole of received payment, and the countersign of your very humble servant, THE EDITOR Columbian Centinel, printed by Benjamin Russell, Boston, Nov. 26, 1794. PETERSFIELD

WILLIAM MOULTRIE-Information is desired of William Moultrie, described in American biography as a Revolutionary major-general of distinction in South Carolina, during the War of American Independence, though circumstances appear to have prevented his obtaining that place in American history attained by some of his contemporaries. His conduct at the defense of Charleston appears to rank with any exploit performed by Americans during the war.

Have any monuments been erected to his memory other than naming the fort after him at Charleston? Was he married, and to whom? and has he left descendants?

J. V. MOUTRAY

HAYMARKET P. O.,
SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES

BUCHANAN William Mitchell, his wife, and son William came from Glasgow, Scotland, to Chester, Connecticut, in 1755. His elder brother, James, father of Chief-Justice Stephen Mix Mitchell, had settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, about twenty-five years before. William Mitchell died within the year after his arrival. His wife was Agnes Buchanan, a woman of great strength of mind, and elevation of Christian character. Her son, William Mitchell (2d), remained with his mother and survived her many years.

Mrs. Lamb's "History of the City of New York," and Barrett's "Old Merchants of New York," speak of Thomas Buchanan, of Glasgow, a merchant of high standing in New York from about 1763 to 1815, who was associated in

business with Walter Buchanan. Thomas Buchanan seems to have been born about 1744. His birth-place was the same as that of these Mitchells. He was

a cotemporary of William Mitchell (2d), born in 1735, who died in 1816, and of Chief-Justice Stephen Mix Mitchell, born 1743, who died 1835. Mrs. Agnes (Buchanan) Mitchell died in 1785 at the age of eighty-five; she was consequently a cotemporary of Thomas Buchanan for thirty years in this country. From these facts a relationship between them may be fairly conjectured. If any kinship existed, he would probably have been more or less associated with her family, and that of her husband's brother, James Mitchell. The coincidence may be mentioned, that Chief-Justice Stephen Mix Mitchell had a son Walter.

The only son of Thomas Buchanan died unmarried. His daughters married Peter P. Goelet, Robert R. Goelet, Thomas Hicks, Samuel Gifford, Thomas C. Pearsall.

This statement is made in the hope that the descendants of Thomas Buchanan may have his pedigree. If so, does it mention an Agnes Buchanan, who might be the person referred to above? Kindly address

MRS. EDWARD ELBRIDGE SALISBURY, NEW HAVEN, CONN.

PAGE, REV. BERNARD-Can any one give any account of this clergyman after 1776? Previous to this time he preached in the Wyoming region of Pennsylvania, is named in the letters of Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith, and in "Bolton's Westchester, N. Y.," as late as 1775; but after

that it has so far been impossible to trace him. H. E. H.

GREYCOURT-Can any reader of the Magazine throw light on the origin of this name that of a hamlet in Orange County, New York? Eager's "History of Orange County" (pp. 518, 519) gives a very dubious etymology. The descendants of Robert Ludlow, who settled in Orange County, have, however, quite another derivation. Robert Ludlow, of Newburgh, it should be said, was the grandson of that Charles Crommeline who purchased an interest in the patent known as the "Wawayanda Patent," embracing Greycourt. Mr. Eager, the historian, says, "Daniel Cromline" was the purchaser of the interest, but this must be an error, for Daniel Crommeline was a son of Charles Crommeline, and only two years of age at the date of the Greycourt settlement (A.D. 1716). Besides, this very Daniel, early in life, appears to have gone to Holland, where he founded a famous banking house, until lately existing, and which at one time.

was the correspondent of Messrs. Brown and Ives, of Providence, and of many other old American East India merchants.

Charles Crommeline, not Daniel, as Mr. Eager states, built the Greycourt house in 1716, and the son of his daughter, Elizabeth (married to the second American Gabriel Ludlow) subsequently went up to the Wawayanda Patent and settled there, marrying Elizabeth Conkling, of Orange County.

Now, the descendants of Charles Crommeline and Robert Ludlow have a fixed tradition that it was Charles Crommeline who named "Greycourt," and that he so named it after a village in the circle of Grey, in upper Saône, France, from near which the Crommelines, who were Huguenots, originally came. Whether this family tradition is well-founded or not, it has found its way into print, and perhaps some of your readers may readily furnish the facts? Either Mr. Eager's history, or the Orange County Ludlows are wrong? HISTORICUS

ARCHIBALD MCPHEADRIS, merchant, of Portsmouth [iii. 379] In reply to a call in your valuable Magazine for information concerning a family who intermarried with the Livingstons of New York, I submit the following paper:

Archibald McPheadris married in 1718 Sarah, dau. of Lieutenant Gov. John Wentworth and sister of the later Gov. Benning Wentworth. He built the brick mansion, now known as the Warner, house in Portsmouth, in 1716-1718, after wards owned by Jonathan Warner, whose second wife was the daughter of Mc Phea

dris. He was one of the most enterprising merchants of his day, and besides his vast commercial interests, was an extensive land owner. land owner. He received at Portsmouth large consignments of foreign products and manufactured goods, the which (after supplying Portsmouth and its vicinity) were sent to Boston and distributed in other directions for a market. He formed a company, of which he was the life, for the making of iron on Lamprey River, a branch of the Piscataqua, and encouraged the immigration of skilled workmen for the smelting, etc.,