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of them as Forces to be employed out of this Province, and that such report could only have risen from weak or evilminded People, and you may still further assure them, that they will be treated at all times with the same degree of Indulgence and protection with His Majesty's other Subjects. And to this you may also add that the Government has not the least Design Either to molest or disturb them on account of their Religion.
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I am with regard
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Sir
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Yours
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MICHL. FRANCKLIN.
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Isaac Deschamps, Esq.,
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or in his absence to
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Winckworth Tongue, Esq.,
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Windsor.
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Lt. Govr. Francklin to Colonel H. D. Denson.
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(Letter Book.)
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HALIFAX, 4 July, 1768.
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SIR, —
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Some of the Accadians who reside in Kings County and at Windsor, who have lately taken the oaths of allegiance to His Majesty, have informed me that they have been warned to Train with the other Militia, which they conceived as a hardship being unprovided with arms, and unable to purchase them immediately, were they to be bought.
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I am therefore to desire that you do Exempt them from Mustering or training, until you have Orders to the Contrary
Mauger, and assistcd Capt. Murray in suppressing the turbulent proceedings of the Acadian French at Pisiquid that year. He was elected a member of Assembly for West Falmouth in July 1761, and the same year was appointed one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for Kings Co., (Hants and Kings then being comprised in one County). In 1768 he was appointed by Lt. Governor Francklin Judge of the Island of St. John (P.E. Island), and in1770 Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in the place of Mr. Duport, appointed to St. John's. On the death of Chief Justice Finucane in 1785, he became Chief Justice of the Province. He was Acting Clerk of the House Assembly in 1772. Judge Deschamps was appointed to His Majesty's Council 6th Oct., 1783. He died on 11th August, 1801, in the 79th year of his age. His son, George Deschamps, received the appointment of Judge of Probate for Hants County on the death of his father. N.S. MS. Doc; N.S. Almanac; Murdoch's N.S., 249, 404, 406, 479, 493.
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