Port Royal

Founded by De Monts in 1605. The basin had been discovered the previous year, and the land granted to Pout rin court, who named it Port Royal. The early settlement is described in Lescarbot's History of New France . Captured by Sedgwick, under the orders of Cromwell, in 1654; restored in 1668. Again captured by Phipps, 1690, and once more restored to France by the treaty of Ryswick, 1697. Nicholson finally captured the place in 1710, and re-named it Anna polis Royal ( q.v. ). Index : F Capital of Acadia, 270; captured by Phipps, 274. Ch Settlement made at, 32; new settlers arrive under Pout rin court, 36. L Captured by English, 229. Bib. : Cham plain, Voyages ; Lescarbot, History of New France ; Parkman, Pioneers of France .