Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

14 February 1811

Memorial of John Martin and other debtors in the Halifax jail. "That your Memorialists Labour under the great disadvantages from…being neither able to provide for themselves (while confined) in Jail nor for their Familys without – And…people have been put in Jail who either had no friends in Town or whose place of Residence were in some distant part of the Country; destitute of Money to Subsist themselves and unprovided with Bed Cloathing, such People have been dependant upon their fellow Prisoners for a Share of the Provisions their friends have with difficulty been able to send them – and their Bed Cloaths to the risk of their Health." Asking relief. Signed with 6 names.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 17