Roderick MacKenzie served as a British army officer in the First Highland Battalion of Foot. He appears to have been first remarked in the

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on 18 January 1757, under Commandant Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Montgomery. It is unclear whether he "was badly wounded" in the capture of St. John's during the 1762 Battle of Signal Hill, as there were in the Gazette of 1757 three Captains and three Lieutenants with the same last name.

Acadians removed from Nepisiguit

MacKenzie was commanding officer in charge of Fort Cumberland in 1761. As the Acadians in the Gulf of St. Lawrence had not ceased their attacks on British shipping, he was charged by Lieutenant Governor of

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with their removal. MacKenzie arrived at Nepisiguit with approximately 50 Highlanders on 29 October 1761, and did as he was ordered. The pregnant and the ill he did not remove, and he left a few able-bodied Acadians to help them. Smethurst, Gamalielbr>"A narrative of an extraordinary escape out of the Hands of the Indians in the Gulph of St. Lawrence"
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of a publication done at London in the year 1774.

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