Acadia

or Acadie, the name given by the French to a province of their colonial empire in America, consisting of what is now Nova Scotia,. New Brunswick and part of Maine, the important part being Nova Scotia. De Monts settled it in 1604. It was claimed by England. Argall conquered it in 1613. James I. gave it to Sir William Alexander, but he could not hold it. It was in English hands from 1654 to 1657. It was conquered by Sir William Phipps and New England troops in 1690, but retaken in 1691. Further attempts were made in 1704, 1707 and 1710. ‘The last was succe ful, and in 1713 the treaty of Utrecht gave Acadia to England. Under British government the Acadians were accused of abusing their privileges as neutrals. In 1755 several you sand of them were transported, with much harsh treatment, to the British provinces southward. (Long fellow’s ‘‘Evangeline"’ is founded upon. this act of expatriation.) Many made their way to Louisiana, Acre Right, the share owned by any one in the common lands of New England towns. Their value varied in different towns, but was a fixed quantity in each town. In Bill eric a, for instance, a ten-acre lot or right was equivalent to 113 acres of upland and twelve acres of meadow, | and so on in exact proportion. | ‘‘ Acts and Resolves,’ a publication i ued by the government of | Ma achusetts, edited by Abner C. Goodell, Jr. It comprises all the | acts and resolves of the Ma achusetts Legislature from 1691 to 1780, including those obsolete and repealed. Publication began in 1869. | Adair, John, born 1757, died 1840. He was an American general in the war against England, 1812, and commanded the Kentucky troops in the battle of New Orleans.