Well today I was reading an article forwarded to my group about
the Deportation. In the article, it talks about a diary of a
English soldier who was sent to Grand Pre in 1755 to oversee the
deportation of the Acadians. This journal recently came to
light. Apparently his diary has lots of little things jotted
down . The soldier was thirty years old and his name was
Jeremiah Bancroft. He wrote the following note the eve of the
Deportation.He wrote about unknown prisoners escaping from the
palisade at Grand pre, he wrote about soldiers fighting among
each other, he wrote about a court martial of a soldier who had
assaulted an Acadian woman and the lashings that were given.
there are desertions,there are thefts not only from the Acadians
but from other soldiers. It was chaotic. There were fatigue and
fears and concerns (against the natives). But on September 5 he
wrote something that gives us a powerful image of happenings
that fateful day. He wrote"In it, he struggles to describe the
reaction of the 418 Acadian