Significant Historical Happenings By Year: 1706-08.
- -1706-
- May 12/23, 1706: Marlborough defeats the French at Ramillies.
- Costebelle is appointed governor at Placentia and shortly thereafter marries.
- La Ronde, the privateer, comes to Boston on the business of prisoner exchange.
- Baptiste is released at Boston and returns to Beaubassin.
- Louis Damours is released as a prisoner at Boston and returns to Port Royal.
- October, 1706: Subercase arrives and takes up his duties as governor at Port Royal.
- During 1706, Jean-Chrysotome Loppinot is granted a seigneury at Cape Forchu (Yarmouth).
- -1707-
- By the Union Act of 1706, Scotland and England were formed into one country, Great Britain. Their is widespread opposition to the bill; the Jacobites raise their heads once again.
- January 12th, 1707: Baptiste, marries the widow, Marguerite Bourgeois at Beaubassin.
- 1707: Bonaventure's wife, Jeanne Janniere, comes to Port Royal.
- In June and then again in August of 1707 Colonel John March of New England lays siege to Port Royal.
- August, 1707: Morpain sails into Port Royal with two prizes in tow, one a slave-ship and the other ladened with foodstuffs.
- October 31st, 1707; Castin (jr.) marries, at Port Royal, Marie Charlotte (b.1690), the daughter of Louis Damour. It should be noted that Louis Damours was released as a prisoner at Boston, in 1707.
- 1707: Baptiste is released at Boston and returns to Beaubassin.
- During 1707, Francois de Beauharnois de La Boische, Baron de Beauville (Intendant of New France) is granted a seigneury at Port Maltais (Port Medway); this would be the last seigneury granted in Acadia.
- -1708-
- Mar, 1708: The French make an attempt to land the pretender on the shores of Scotland, but are frightened off by the ever vigilant British navy.
- May, 1708: A general election in the new United kingdom, the first when both Scotland and England went the polls at the same time.
- July 11, 1708 (NS): Marlborough's victory at Oudenarde.
- Sep, 1708: Port Mahon in the Island of Minorca is taken by the British.
- Early in 1708, La Loire, a French man-of-war, arrives at Port Royal.
- May 9, 1708: Louis Damours (Louise Guyon's brother-in-law) is buried at Port Royal.
- Louise Guyon leaves Port Royal and returns to Quebec.
- 1708, summer: Subercase considerably improves the defences at Port Royal.
