Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

12 June 1777

Copy of an address by James Tanswell, school-master, to the Assembly, lamenting the commonness of immorality and vice among the youth, and pointing out that only a properly conducted school will preserve the morals of "a set of as fine youths as any part of the globe can boast of".

Reference: Commissioner of Public Records Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 301 number 18