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moreover, that impassioned love of freedom for which since the beginning of the world, God has seemed to reserve such magnificent rewards.

When I see these colonists, with William Pepperell, shopkeeper of Kittery, at their head, set out for Louisbourg with as much religious enthusiasm and as little military discipline as characterized the Crusaders going to Palestine; and when I consider how easily, notwithstanding every likelihood of the opposite event, the great French fortress fell into their hands, I grow pensive, considering on which side, as between then and Louis XV, called the Well-Beloved, the God of armies took His stand.

François Girouard was a resident of Port Royal in 1671, when the census was taken, his age being 50 years. He was married to Jeanne Aucoin, and they had five children, two sons and three daughters. The oldest son, Jacob, aged 23, was married to Margaret Gauterot, whose age was 16, and they had one child, a son named Alexander. Two of the daughters, Madeline, aged 22, and Marie, aged 19, were married, the first to Thomas Cormier and the second to Jacques Belou, and each had one child, a daughter. When the census of 1686 was taken, both of these women were living at Chignecto; Madeline was the mother of nine children, and Marie of three. François Girouard's second son was Germain, who was only 14 years old in 1671. In 1686 he was residing at Chignecto, and had become the second husband of Marie Bourgeois, who was four years older than himself, and who had been first married to Pierre Sire in 1670. The name of the