We know practically nothing of the events which took place in Placentia between the appointment of Du Perron as governor in the autumn of 1662 and the arrival of the reinforcements in 1663. We have only found two of the governor's letters, and they dealt with nothing but the state of the fort in 1662. As far as the historian, Million, is concerned, he tells us of the mutiny in which the young governor was one of the victims and he describes the state in which Gargot must have found the colony. Almost everything had to done over again. The fort had been pillaged and abandoned, Du Perron and his relatives had been assassinated and of the 30 soldiers sent as a garrison a few months earlier there were only eight survivors who were trying to reach the English posts.
Fortunately, quite large reinforcements arrived in 1663. A memorandum written on January 20, that is before the second voyage of Gargot, which took place in June, mentions the dispatch of 20 more soldiers and 50 other people which included 20 fishermen's families. Including the provisions and tools, the expenses amounted to 14,554 francs and 16 sous. Bellot dit Lafontaine then took the place of Du Perron as governor.