Significant Historical Happenings By Year: 1691-93.
- -1691-
- October 7th, 1691: By a charter given by William and Mary the colonies known as Plymouth, Massachusetts, Maine and Nova Scotia were turned into one identity, The colony of Massachusetts.
- Mid-October 1691: Villebon, and Bonaventure arrive from Quebec on the St. Johns to set up the governor's new headquarters.
- As for the English, who thought by conquest that they owned Acadia, they appointed Col. Edward Tyng to be the English Governor of Acadia.
- During 1691 Mathieu Des Goudins granted seigneury at Musquodoboit.
- -1692-
- The witch trials at Salem, Massachusetts.
- From December, 1691, through to May 1692, Baptiste, the Acadian privateer, had taken eight English ships off the coast of America.
- Port Royal has became a free port, during these times she was full of intrigue, with; both the French and the English coming and going; both learning the secrets of the other.
- February, 1692: The French and their native allies make winter attacks on the outlying New England settlements.
- An army of 30,000 French and rebellious Irish troops are quartered in Normandy readying themselves to cross the channel and invade England.
- Off the coast of France the Anglo-Dutch fleet engages the French fleet: the Battle of Barfleur ensues (La Hogue) and the French fleet is scattered. William's English throne is saved, and, from that moment on, France "ceased to exist as a great naval power; for though her fleet was soon recruited to its former strength, the confidence of her sailors was lost ..." (Green, vol. IX, p. 74.)
- November 29, 1692: Villebon comes up the coast from Mount Desert to winter at Beaubassin.
- Lieutenant Costebelle is posted to Placentia; he was shipped wrecked enroute.
- -1693-
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