Anon. (c. 1730) Mémoire sur /’/s/e Saint Jean (An official in the Marine in France.) [undated] [CEA: J.-H. Blanchard papers, 22.2-8. pp.15-18, citing PAC, Series F, Vol.132, p. 271]

This unsigned memorandum was presumably written in Pan's by an official high up in the department of the Marine. It contains a detailed review of the conditions and history of the grant of l7e Saint-Jean to the Count of Saint-Pierre (made eleven years before), and of the failure of the Count’s Company to fulfil the conditions of the grant. It concludes that the grant should be officially revoked and the island returned to direct government control. The island had in fact been under the de facto control of the French crown (via Louisbourg) since 7 725, though the grant to the Count of Saint-Pierre had never been revoked. The reunion of the island to the royal domain was formally achieved by decree on 1 June 7730 and so the memorandum was probably written just before then. The comment that it contains an the island '3 timber resources could have been based on any of a number of communications from the governor and commissaire at Louisbourg in the previous six years.

Harvey, D. C. (1926) The French Regime in Prince Edward Island. Yale University Press. p. 66.

ll est cependant important de travailler a l'établissement de cette Isle qui pourra dans la suitte estre d'une grande ressource a l'lsle Royalle par les grains et les bestiaux qu'on en pourra tirer pour sa subsistance et que les bois de constructions y sont

Abundant timber. abondants, a quoy l'on ne pourra parvenir solidement tant que la réunion n'en aura point esté faite au Domaine de Sa Majesté.

[CEA: J.-H. Blanchard papers, 22.2—8. p. 18]

It is however important to work for the settlement of this island which can be in the future a great resource for lie Royalle on account of the grain and livestock that can be drawn from it for its subsistance and because timber is plentiful there — which will not be firmly achieved so long as it will not have been reunited to the King's domain.

Abundant timber.

[CEA: J.-H. Blanchard papers, 22.2-8. p. 18]

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