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On 4 December 1755 in Annapolis Royal, 232 Acadians were herded aboard the ship Pembroke for exile in North Carolina. The Pembroke was a two-masted, 42 ton ship known as a "snow." It was considered a fast and useful craft. Depending on how it was fitted, it could be used for both naval and merchant purposes.^[1]

The Pembroke was a refitted merchant ship. Governor Shirley and Colonel Lawrence chartered it and six others from the Boston Mercantile firm of Apthrop and Hancock. A flat fee per head, paid on a monthly basis, rented the ships; so it was in the owners' interest to board as many people as possible to maximize profits.^[2]

Conditions aboard these transport ships were bleak. Overcrowding was so severe, people were forced to leave their possessions on shore. Food for the passengers was limited to 1 pound of pork or beef, 2 pounds of bread and 5 pounds of flour for every seven days at sea. Disease ran unchecked. When a person died enroute, their body was tossed into the sea with no record kept of their passing. ^[2]

Of the seven ships involved in this exodus, the Pembroke was unique in having only eight Englishmen in the crew. When bad weather separated the Pembroke from the other boats in the party, the Acadians on board revolted and took control of the ship. They sailed first to Saint Mary's Bay, then on to the Saint Jean river. It was there that they were discovered by the British. Following a skirmish that forced the British to retreat, the Acadians burned the boat so it would not again fall into enemy hands. They then traveled by foot to the village of Sainte-Anne-des-Pays-Bas (today Fredericton) where they spent the winter. Food and supplies were scarce. So, the following summer they migrated again. Some families went to the Miramichi River and to the Bay of Chaleurs, and many moved on to Quebec.

There was a special kinship among these families since they had remained at Port Royal (renamed Annapolis Royal in 1710 by the British) under the English occupation while other residents left after the 1714 census for other villages in Acadia. ^[3]

A map of the Pembroke's journey can be seen in this Storymap created by Mapannapolis.ca

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PRESENCE OF THESE FAMILIES ON THE PEMBROKE IS PROBABLE

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Sources

↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(ship)
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 https://www.acadian.org/history/ships-acadian-expulsion/
↑ Lucie LeBlanc Consentino. Pembroke Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home, Pembroke Passenger List Reconstructed by Paul Delaney and Lucie Consentino, translated by Karen Theriot Reader. Accessed November 2021. Originally published in Les Cahiers de la Société historique acadienne vol. 35, nos. 1 & 2 (Jan-Jun 2004) https://societehistoriqueacadienne.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/3501_total.pdf

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