William Shirley

He was joined by a considerable band of Malicites and Micmacs under the Abbe le Loutre, and emissaries were sent out among the Acadians as far as Minas to persuade them to take up arms on the side of the French.

William Shirley, the Governor of Massachusetts, who exercised supervision over the affairs of Nova Scotia, seeing in this a real menace to British power in the colony, raised a thousand New Englanders and dispatched them to Annapolis.

Of these, only four hundred and seventy, under Colonel Arthur Noble of Massachusetts, arrived at their destination.

Most of the vessels carrying the others were wrecked by storms.