[Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia]
Sunday the 10th [November] Two of the Inhabitants living just under the Garrison, came early this Morning to inform me of their being between six & seven hundred Men in Arms at their House, most all Night, waiting for a favorable opportunity to attack, that they approached in small partys, near the Fort, during the Night, but found our Centrys so alert, & firing on them, they retired. — Said they intended to send a Summons this day to the Commanding Officer to surrender the Garrison, that among these people, there appeared all the French Acadians of the Country, & Inhabitants of Amherst, Westcock, Joly Gour &c. — One Clough a trading Vessel from Halifax, lying in Bay Vert [Baie Verte], was taken by the bloody Bridge French Acadians. —
1. Proceedings at Fort Cumberland, PRO, Colonial Office, 217/52, 315, DAC Photocopy.
2. H.M. Sloop Vulture.
3. This statement and list of ships are in a different hand; possibly written by General Massey.