Excerpt from Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of EvangelineYet this is lieutenant-colonel John Winslow, great grandson of 'one of the founders of the Plymouth Settlement. Could he forget that his ancestors ¿ed from persecution, and came to this country to find peaceful homes?It was not his place to make reply, or reason why when receiving orders, however, and it seems that the task imposed was a distasteful one, as, at the time of the banishment, he earnestly expressed the desire to be rid of the worst piece of service 'he ever was in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.