Nova Scotia Archives
Spoils of War: Privateering in Nova Scotia
"Schooner Eliza, of New York, prize to the Shelburne, NS privateer Nelson"
14 pages previous page page 5 next page
4 July 1801, Shelburne, 14 pages. Original, answers to questions in the Vice-Admiralty Court at Shelburne upon oath of Thomas Bird, master of the schooner Eliza, 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 699