Rollo, Andrew (fifth Lord Rollo) (1758) Letter to Admiral Boscawen, Commander in Chief of His Majesty '3 
     
     Fleet in America. 10 October 1758. [CEA: typescript in the Placide Gaudet Papers: 1.35-25, citing: PAC: 
     
     Chatham Manuscripts Vol. 96, pp. 94-96.] 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     After the fall of Louisbourg on 26 July 7758 a British force under Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Rollo lb. 7700, d. 
     
     7 765) was dispatched to occupy lie Saint-Jean, and to proceed with the deportation of its population. Rollo arrived 
     
     on 1 7 August and appears not to have moved beyond Port La—Joie where he oversaw the construction of Fort 
     
     Amherst. In a letter to the commander of the British fleet, Admiral Edward Boscawen, then at Louisbourg, he 
     
     includes a second—hand comment on the woods of the island. The actual source of the comment is a Captain Hill 
     
     - identified by Placide Gaudet from the 1 76 7 army list as Captain Ralph Hill.1 Hill was obviously familiar with the 
     
     Thames in England — his birthplace, Richmond, is on the Thames — and it was natural for him to compare the more— 
     
     wooded North-east River (soon to be called the Hil/sborough) to a river with which he was already familiar. 
     
    
   
   
    
     REFERENCES: 
     
     Henderson, T. F. (1897) Rollo, Andrew (fifth Lord Ro||o). Dictionary of National Biography, XLIX: 169. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Harvey, D. C. (1926) The French Regime in Prince Edward Island. Yale University Press, pp. 188—190. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Your opinion is very right of Establishing a Post betwixt the Head of the River Grond 
     
     He the Hi/lsborough River], and the head of ye Rivers St Peter & Tracadee which are 
     
    
   
   
    
     all within ten miles of each other. 
     
     More wood than 
     
    
   
   
    
     along the I heard a Capt" in the Army here (who I sent up the River) Hill 1of Warburtons he was 
     
     Thames. born near Richmond compare it to the Thames, only too much Wood. 
     
    
   
   
    
     1. If this Captain Hill is the same person as the Captain Ralph Hill mentioned in Gamaliel Smethurst's account 
     
     (1774), his connection with the Island of St. John extended beyond 1758. Smethurst writes (p. 27): "The 
     
     commanding officer [on the island], Captain Ralph Hill, had given me a grant of some land, which I looked 
     
     upon only as temporary” — this was presumably at St. Peters where Smethurst says he ”attempted a 
     
     fishery” which ”employed most of the people on the island". From Smethurst's account, this ’grant' must 
     
     date from before 1767, and may be before December 1763, the date of his journey from Fort Amherst 
     
     described in the journal. Captain Hill is not listed in either the Dictionary of Canadian Biography or of 
     
     National Biography.