Attack at Jeddore The Attack at Jeddore ( Isidore ) happened on April 21 , 1753 off Jeddore , Nova Scotia during Father Le Loutre ’ s War . The Mi ’ kmaq killed nine of the British delegates and spared the life of the French - speaking translator Anthony Casteel , who wrote one of the few Captivity narrative s that exist from Acadia and Nova Scotia . 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 ) . On 22 November 1752 , after several years of fighting , the leader of the Shubenacadie Mi ’ kmaq village under the chief Jean - Baptiste Cope reached a peace agreement with Nova Scotia Governor Peregrine Hopson in Halifax . Cope did not speak on behalf off all the Mi ’ kmaq people . Most of the other Mi ’ kmaq people , even those in his local community , denounced the treaty . The Attack at Mocodome occurred on February 21 , 1753 when two English died and six or seven Mi ' kmaq . Both sides blamed each other for the incident . In response , Cope requested time , political support , and presents to distribute to his compatriots as tokens of British respect . In response to Cope ’ s invitation , a delegation of 9 soldiers and one translator left Halifax in a sloop under the command of Bannerman to sail east to meet a group of Mi ’ kmaq leaders that Cope had assembled . They planned to exchange presents and advance the negotiations for an expansion of the peace . The Attack . On the night of April 20 , the British delegation met Jean - Baptiste Cope at the mouth of a river at Jeddore , in which there was a Mi ’ kmaq village up stream . They slept overnight and the next day four Mi ’ kmaq men and one woman , Cope not among them , came to the ship . They invited Captain Bannerman to come to get provisions from the village . The captain followed their directions , and sailed up stream into an ambush . A team of warriors seized the delegation and took it to the Mi ’ kmaq village on the bank of the river . Casteel reported the Mi ’ kmaq killed Captain James Bannerman and the other eight British in front of him . He reported that he watched the warriors cure and mount the scalps of his companions . ( One month later at Chignecto , Le Loutre paid Mi ’ kmaq warriors 1800 livres for eighteen British scalps . ) Chief Étienne Bâtard was among the Mi ' kmaq and is reported to have helped save Casteel . Casteel reported that Cope burned the treaty that was signed less than six months earlier . The Mi ' kmaq ransomed Anthony Casteel to the French and let him off at Port Toulouse , where the Mi ' kmaq sank the schooner after looting it . Consequences . According to historian Geoffery Plank , this incident reminded the British that individuals were not always what they seemed : Despite the collapse of peace on the eastern shore , the British did not formally renounce the Treat of 1752 until 1756 , when Lawrence declared another bounty for the scalps of Mi ’ kmaq men . Even more fuel was given to the conflict when the British decided in May 1753 to unilaterally establish Lunenburg , Nova Scotia .