Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

5 December 1808

Petition of Ebenezer Wheaton of Cornwallis, stating that while on duty with the militia he was taken ill and that as a result of the doctor bleeding his arm he has since lost completely the use of the arm, and asking for a yearly sum to help him support himself. Signed. Certificate of Samuel Head, the surgeon of the regiment in which Wheaton was enrolled. That Wheaton was bled by the assistant surgeon "& for all the time he remained in that capacity, either was or pretended to be disabled in his arm in consequence (as he said) of the operation; that last spring of Summer some Months after the Militia were discharged, sd. Wheaton applied to me for assistance & upon examination of his arm there appeared a rigidity proceeding from the place of incision upward which in all probability arose from the pricking of the tendon of the Bicep muscle." Certificate to the truth of the petition, by officers. £10 granted, 24 Dec.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 15 number 116