Attack at Mocodome The " Attack at Mocodome " ( present - day Country Harbour , Nova Scotia ) occurred during Father Le Loutre ’ s War on February 21 , 1753 when two English died and six Mi ' kmaq . There are differing accounts of the battle . British accounts blamed the English for the incident while the Mi ' kmaq blamed the English . Regardless , the battle ended any hope for the survival of the 1752 Peace Treaty signed by the British and chief Jean - Baptiste Cope . Historical context . Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710 , Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi ' kmaq . By the time Cornwallis had arrived in Halifax , there was a long history of the Wabanaki Confederacy ( which included the Mi ' kmaq ) protecting their land by killing British civilians along the New England / Acadia border in Maine ( See the Northeast Coast Campaigns 1688 , 1703 , 1723 , 1724 , 1745 , 1746 , 1747 ) . To prevent the establishment of Protestant settlements in the region , Mi ' kmaq raided the early British settlements of present - day Shelburne ( 1715 ) and Canso ( 1720 ) . A generation later , Father Le Loutre ' s War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on June 21 , 1749 . By unilaterally establishing Halifax the British were violating earlier treaties with the Mi ' kmaq ( 1726 ) , which were signed after Father Rale ' s War . The British quickly began to build other settlements . To guard against Mi ' kmaq , Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements , British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ) , Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ) , Dartmouth ( 1750 ) , Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ) . There were numerous Mi ' kmaq and Acadian raids on these villages such as the Raid on Dartmouth ( 1751 ) . There was a raid on those in the Dartmouth area in 1749 ( See History of Dartmouth ) . In response to the raids , Governor Edward Cornwallis offered a bounty on the head of every Mi ' kmaq . The British military paid the Rangers the same rate per scalp as the French military paid the Mi ' kmaq for British scalps . After eighteen months of inconclusive fighting , uncertainties and second thoughts began to disturb both the Mi ’ kmaq and the British communities . By the summer of 1751 Governor Cornwallis began a more conciliatory policy . On 16 February 1752 , hoping to lay the groundwork for a peace treaty , Cornwallis repealed his 1749 scalp proclamation against the Wabanaki Confederacy . For more than a year , Cornwallis sought out Mi ’ kmaq leaders willing to negotiate a peace . He eventually gave up , resigned his commission and left the colony . With a new Governor in place , Governor Peregrine Thomas Hopson , the first willing Mi ’ kmaq negotiator was Cope . On 22 November 1752 , Cope finished negotiating a peace for the Mi ’ kmaq at Shubenacadie . The basis of the treaty was the one signed in Boston which closed Dummer ' s War ( 1725 ) . Cope tried to get other Mi ’ kmaq chiefs in Nova Scotia to agree to the treaty but was unsuccessful . The Governor became suspicious of Cope ’ s actual leadership among the Mi ’ kmaq people . Of course , Le Loutre and the French were outraged at Cope ’ s decision to negotiate at all with the British . The Battle . According the two British involved in the ordeal , Connor and Grace , on February 21 , 1753 , nine Mi ' kmaq from present - day Antigonish ( Nartigouneche ) in canoes attacked their schooner Dunk from Canso , Nova Scotia which had a crew of four at present - day Country Harbour , Nova Scotia . The Mi ' kmaq fired on them and drove them toward the shore . Other natives joined in and boarded the schooner , forcing them to run their vessel into an inlet . The two English men witnessed the Mi ' kmaq scalp and kill two of their crew . The Mi ' kmaq took the two others captive for seven weeks . After seven weeks in captivity , on April 8 , the two English men killed a Mi ' kmaq woman and child and then four other Mi ' kmaq men . Afterward , they managed their escape . According to Mi ’ kmaq accounts , the English schooner first went to Jedore and robbed the Mi ’ kmaq of forty barrels of provisions . Mi ’ kmaq then apprehended the four English men , who , in turned , killed the Mi ’ kmaq people for scalp money . The English schooner accidentally was shipwrecked , some of the crew drowned . They reported two men died of illness while the two others , despite the Mi ' kmaq hospitality shown them , killed the six Mi ' kmaq for the scalp bounty . In response , Mi ' kmaq natives were reported to have gone to Halifax to complain about how to keep their provisions safe during fishing season . A French officer at Louisbourg did not believe the Mi ' kmaq account of events . If Connor and Grace were only motivated by scalp money as the Mi ' kmaq asserted , it is unclear who would have paid them for Mi ' kmaq scalps given Governor Cornwallis had stopped the bounty on Mi ' kmaq scalps the previous year . Aftermath . In response , on the night of April 21 , under the leadership of Jean - Baptiste Cope and the Mi ' kmaq Attack at Jeddore in which the Mi ' kmaq attacked an English schooner . There were nine English men and one Acadian who was the British interpreter . The Mi ' kmaq killed the English and let the Acadian named Anthony Casteel off at Port Toulouse , where the Mi ' kmaq sank the schooner after looting it . Cope ' s peace treaty was ultimately rejected by most of the other Mi ' kmaq leaders . Cope burned the treaty six months after he signed it . Despite the collapse of peace on the eastern shore , the British did not formally renounce the Treat of 1752 until 1756 . References . Primary Sources Secondary Sources Footnotes