The New Hampshire Gazette

Dec. 20. An Officer lately arrived from Quebec declares that the inhabitants, particularly the women, upon our troops entering that city, were ready to destroy themselves and children, for fear of the English, who, they said, they were taught to believe by their priests, would butcher them in the most savage manner, so soon as they should get possession of the place; but the women, finding themselves treated with tenderness, and their children saluted after the English custom, as a token of love and friendship, immediately changed their opinion; and when notice was given that the transports were ready to receive such of the inhabitants as chose to go to Old France, upwards of 200 families who petitioned to be sent thither by the first embarkation, solicited permission to reside under the English government, which was immediately granted.