page_title: Jeremiah Bancroft
section_title: French and Indian War
hierarchical_section_title: Jeremiah Bancroft / French and Indian War
caption_attribution_description: English: Plan of the western part of the Chignecto Isthmus showing Beauséjour Fort and the surrounding area Français&#160;: Plan de la partie occidentale de l'isthme de Chignecto, montrant le fort de Beauséjour et ses environs
context_page_description: Jeremiah Bancroft was born in Reading, Massachusetts, on July 27, 1725 and died there from smallpox on November 25, 1757. Bancroft was an ensign in the French and Indian War. Bancroft is best known for the diary he kept of his account of the fall of Fort Beausejour and the Expulsion of the Acadians at Grand-Pré.
context_section_description: Jeremiah Bancroft was the ensign in Captain Phineas Osgood’s Company, one of eleven companies comprising the First Battalion of the Regiment of Governor William Shirley of Massachusetts. The Battalion was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel John Winslow (British Army officer) of Marshfield, Massachusetts. It and a Second Battalion had been raised in New England, chiefly Massachusetts, in the early months of 1755 by Governor Shirley and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton. At the time that Captain Osgood’s Company embarked at Boston on the Swan for Chignecto, it numbered 103 officers and men. All together, the assault force consisted of approximately 1,950 New England provincial troops and 270 British regulars.
  The first entry of Bancroft's diary relates to the successful Battle of Fort Beauséjour by an assault military force. The capture of Fort Beauséjour was the only instance in which New France was compelled to yield ground in 1755, a year which was generally disappointing for Great Britain in its undeclared war with France.
  Bancroft’s second entry in his diary relates to a gloomy chapter in Maritime history—the Expulsion of the Acadians of Nova Scotia. More specifically, it relates to operations at Grand-Pré. While several other diaries chronicle events during and after the siege of Fort Beauséjour, including the deportation of Acadians from the Chignecto area, only one other diary is known to record events attending the deportation in 1755 of Acadians living farther south in Nova Scotia.
caption: Fort Beausejour and Cathedral (c.1755)
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