 After Louisbourg , the company was stationed first at Fort Frederick ( Saint John , New Brunswick ) , and then at Fort St. Anne , where the company was part of a campaign against Indians and Acadians that had taken refuge there from the ongoing expulsion of the Acadians . These raids were sometimes quite brutal ; the company was known to scalp Acadian settlers . In one particularly brutal incident , Hazen was responsible for the scalping of six men , and the burning of four others , along with two women and three children , in a house he set on fire . Joseph Bellefontaine , a leader of the local militia and the father of one of the women , claimed that he was forced to witness this event in an attempt to coerce his cooperation with the rangers . ( Bellefontaine escaped into the woods with two of his grandchildren . ) General Jeffrey Amherst , who did not hear of the incident until after he had promoted Hazen to captain , noted , " I am sorry that to say what I have since heard of that affair has sullied his merit with me as I shall always disapprove of killing women and helpless children . " 
