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| | History of Nova Scotia, Index of Dates, 1654-56. |
 | | July, 1654: General Robert Sedgwick captures Pentagoet, Port Royal, and Le Heve. |
 | | August 16th, 1654: Captain John Leverett was left at Port Royal by General Sedgwick as governor and commander of the forts of St. John, Port Royal and Penobscot; this English possession was to continue from 1654 to 1667. |
 | | Philippe Mius d'Entremont (b.1601) receives from his commander, LaTour, in 1654, one of the few signeurie ever given out in old Acadia, signeurie of Popomcoup (Pubnico), at Cape Sable at the southern end of peninsular Nova Scotia, near present day Yarmouth. |
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