- Author
- Sener, Samuel Miller,
- Date of Publication
- 1897
peremptory decree was issued that
the Acadians were to be banished, and
that 7,000 of them were to be seized ; 500
to be sent to North Carolina ; 1,000 to
Virginia ; 2,000 to Maryland ; 300 to
Philadelphia ; 200 to New York ; 300 to
Connecticut, and 200 to Boston. The
colonies thus selected were not notified