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The story shall be told in Monckton's own words: "Nov'br ye 4th, The party returns without any Prisoner, having been at the Village of Grimrose which they found had been but lately deserted by the inhabitants. "Give orders for landing. Having got a body of about 700 Men on Shore, we march to the further end of the Village, being about a league.
This letter will be found in the Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. II., pp. 135-145. Many of Mr. Graham's remarks savor of exaggeration and in reading the extract above this fact should not be lost sight of. Saturday, the 4th of November, was an unhappy day for the poor Acadians living at the little village of Grimrose the site of the modern village of Gagetown.
Captains Danks and Brewer were sent with their companies to burn some houses near what is now Upper Gagetown. After burning the houses they marched their troops down the "Neck" towards the village of Grimrose and on their way came across three or four Frenchmen who were driving off about forty head of cattle.
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