spring officers from Joie would eoir.e in the name of the King to take an account of the seed that they sowed ;:nd in the Autumn these same liceneed - >•." l-vis 'iVjll »! ' •/« to el; eve th« pr r *cad Inns 3 f * '• •- i r hi • dlj *on crO] B, leaving them V i-ely sufficient to rust'-in life throughout the cruel winter. Some of the women of T>aye de la Fortune determined to cvidc the unjustice; as fast as the grwin was threahud they would conceal a portion of it in their clothing and carry it away to the woods, where they would hi0a it and thus secure nn extr;: ttDi-t. After some years, seeing that there was no other course open for them thev submitted to the inevitable, took the Oath of Allegiance and were graciously permitted to have undisputed possession of the fruits of their ir-d-slry. Tiiey however, made proviso that thejr should .irvrr take up arms agaiufct the king, of . Over thirty years lad come and gone when h new calamity hefel these poor Acndians who would seem to 'he specially loved hy the almighty, judging from the frequency with which he laid his chastening hand upon them. In the yerr 1733, the proprietor of Township Forty Three, William Townshend and Englishman came to claim the land surrounding Fay Fortune from which he proposed to evict tie Acudia.it in or"«r to estatlish a protestant colony of Din^welle and others \vho were at t3:e time settled at 5t. Peters hut who had laid longing eyes on the "ITaDoths vineyard" at Sale de la Fortune. The Acadian settlers refused tc acknowledge !'r. Townshend'8 claim to the land on the ground of their leing possessed of a letter of recommendation from the British Officer who had administered to them the oath of allegiance, 7V l s paper specified that they were reinst-ted in their property as securely as when tli^y held it under Louis XVI . "r. Townshend however took d different view of the natter; le resorted to 1-w ■nC. having more resources, .-it his iivVT.an' than the poor Aeadiyns, g; ined his c.'je and chliged them to leave Bay Fortune . The greater nuriT<»r vent to