Nova Scotia Archives
Spoils of War: Privateering in Nova Scotia
"Schooner Eliza, of New York, prize to the Shelburne, NS privateer Nelson"
4 July 1801, Shelburne, 5 pages. Typescript of answers to questions in the Vice-Admiralty Court at Shelburne upon oath of Thomas Bird, Master of the schooner Eliza, of New York, relative to her capture by the privateer Nelson on 22 July 1800.
Date: 1801
Reference: Gideon White Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 951 number 699t