Those
not killed were sent as prisoners to the Micmac settlement. Most of
the prisoners, according to Ralph E. Metford an early historian were
sent to Richibucto.
Some years later after this the Richibucto
Micmacs condemned one if their numbers to be stoned to death. In 1730
he had been convicted of some treasonable correspondence with the Mohawks.
After a regular and formal trial the
criminal was taken to a Point three miles from the harbor entrance.
He was bound hand and foot on a great rock and stoned to death.
Cooney, the early historian quoting Gaspesia,
page 237 said," His head was broken on the rock and there still remains
blood-like veins in the boulder" They buried him near the edge of the
woods opposite the large rock on which he was killed.
The Richibucto Micmacs fought steadily
against the English until 1755 when the Expulsion of the Acadians took
place. Realizing that the French were beaten when they saw them driven
out of the country, they came forward and took the oath of allegiance,
and promised to cease offensive operation against the English.
The Richibucto Chief at that time was
Augustine Michael, who along with Jacob Augustine played a historic
role in the conquest of Canada.
These two leaders of the Micmac tribe
having made a treaty with the British felt duty to inform the English
of any hostile move on the part of the French, and it was these Micmacs
and the Micmac of Louisburg who informed the British of the French Fleet
in the Bay Chaleur in 1760.
And with that last battle of May, 1760
were crushed the hopes of the French for the conquest of Canada- it
marked the end of the seven year war. Ralph E. Metford, tells what happened
in that era that the Micmac under the leadership of Jacob Augustine
fought with Byron in the last battle between the French and English.
This is what the Historian Metford refers to when he wrote "This Indian
leader of the Richibucto Micmac, Jacob Augustine, played a historic
role in the conquest of Canada".
Among the many Micmac Legends is one
found in a bound volume of the New York Albion published more then 135
years ago. Contained therein are many quaint Micmac stories. One of
them describes the origin of the Micmac tribe in Eastern Canada.