Paul Mascarene
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
Major-General Jean-Paul Mascarene (c. 1684 – 22 January 1760) was a British army officer and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Nova Scotia from 1740 to 1749. During his tenure as governor, he led the colony through King George's War with the Kingdom of France, and rose to the rank of major general. He is best known for repulsing two French attempts to capture Annapolis Royal in 1744 and 1745.
Life
Mascarene was from a Huguenot family, driven from France at the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685. Subsequently, Mascarene was cared for by relatives in Geneva where he was raised and received his education. Moving to England, Samuel Vetch took an interest in Mascarene to use him in relations with French-speaking inhabitants of his territory. In 1711, Mascarene was posted at Boston, Massachusetts, where he met and married Elizabeth Perry, by whom he had four children.
In August 1714, Vetch sent Mascarene and Captain Joseph Bennett, with a detachment of troops to Minas, located in the Grand-Pré region of Nova Scotia, Canada. Mascarene's orders were to be courteous but to collect a tribute worth 6,000 livres from the Acadian inhabitants. Vetch appointed him with a committee, to hear and settle disputes between the Acadians.
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