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found their way to St. Pierre and Miquelon—obvi- ously those from St. Peters, East Point, and Three Rivers. A census of these islands taken in 1767 en- rolls eighty-one as from Isle Saint Jean, and some of them can be identified from the census of Sieur de La _ Roque.

The same confusion exists in attempting to esti- mate the number who remained on the island. Lord Rollo stated that he left one whole parish which was distant from Port La Joye. This was no doubt the parish of Malpeque; but there were other habitans up the Northeast River who also escaped deporta- tion. That this is so may be gathered from an entry in Knox’s Historical Journal, July, 1759.

A fleet of transports are arrived from New York and Boston with stores and provisions. . . . By these ships we are informed that M. Bois Hebert (who is now in the country) was at Cape Breton when we were there, and that since our departure, he paid a visit to the island of St. John, and summoned the commanding officer of the fort to surrender, on pain of being put to the sword. To this menace he received the following reply. “Monsieur—you are mistaken. I am not to be terrified by you or your threats, and, if you have any regard for yourself and your raggamuffins, you and they would do better to carry yourselves off while you are in whole bones.” Upon this splendid answer, the Partisan, and his gens de Bois, retired to the woods, where they lay perdue for several days; at length a sergeant and eighteen men were sent out from the fort, on some occasion or other, who unfortunately fell into ambush, and not one of them escaped the scalping knife.