Deputy (Acadian)

In September, 1727, Deputies Charles Landry, Abraham Bourg and Guillaum Bourgois were committed to prison for refusing to take the Oath unless upon conditions.

They demanded primarily the right to not be pressed into military service[4] against the French or Mi'kmaq, as well as freedom to practice their religion and keep their lands.

The Deputies were "laid in irons" as Ringleaders and found guilty of "Several enormous Crimes in assembling the Inhabitants in a riotous manner contrary to the orders of the Governmt both as to time & place & likewise in framing a Rebellious paper".

[5] Instead of complying with orders, the Deputies had assembled the inhabitants and "frightened and terrified them, by representing the Oath so strong and binding that neither they nor their children should ever shake off the yoke, so that by their example and insinuations the whole body of the people almost to a man refused them, but upon certain conditions set forth in a paper"[6] In response the other unruly inhabitants were debarred from any fishing activity and denied the security and privileges of English subjects.

[7] The Deputy Landry fell ill while in the fort stockade and was "Reported to be in a very Dangerous State of health & likely to dye Without Some Indulgence from the Government".

"One suspects that the Broussard brothers, probably still living on the haute rivière above Annapolis, kept the untimely death of their brother-in-law in mind when they removed themselves & their families to Chepoudy" [9] and later towards the Petitcodiac River settlement; which will come to be known as a refuge for rebels and an area of fierce resistance.

[11] The first act of Cornwallis' Government, after the organization of the council on 14 July 1749, was an audience of the three French Deputies, who had come down to meet the New Governor.

"It appears to me that you think yourselves independent", Cornwallis responded, "and you wish to treat with the King as if you were so""[14] On 29 July, o. s., (9 August, n. s.), 1749, the following deputies from the French districts arrived at Halifax, viz't.

[15] In March 1750, Gerard, the priest of Cobequid, (now Truro), and the four deputies of that district, viz't., Jean Hebert, Jean Bourg, Joseph Robichaux, and Pierre Gautrot, were examined by the governor and council, as to the stopping of the courier Pierre au Coin, who carried the governor's letters — as to de Loutre's having been there that winter, and the non-attendance of the deputies at Halifax, on which Bourg was liberated, but the rest detained.

: Jacques Teriot, of Grand Pré, Frangois Granger, of Riviere de Canard, Baptiste Galerne and Jean Andre, of Piziquid, petitioned, on behalf of the French inhabitants, for leave to evacuate the province, and to carry off their effects.

[19] Many Acadians were allowed to return to the Province after the 7 years war, on condition of signing the Unconditional Oath and with knowledge that they had lost possession of their property and lands.

[23] Most Acadians who had escaped the deportation and subsequently fought the resistance will be captured after the Battle of Restigouche and live as "banditti" and "ruffians turned pirates" on the fringes of remote parts of New-Brunswick (Acadian Peninsula) and Nova-Scotia until captured by Captain Roderick McKenzie,[24] some that remained or returned clandestinely did not sign Oaths until the 1790s-1800's.

[30][31] In 1736 Joseph Godin and his brother-in-law, Michel Bergeron d’Amboise, went as deputies from the Saint John Acadians to the Annapolis Royal Council.

Boudrot and Paul Oquine; in River Canard there was John Terroit, Oliver Deglass, Jean Granger and Michael Richard.