Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

12 November 1811

Declaration of John D. Hawthorn and James Barss, describing how Thomas Perry, master of the schooner Polly, went on a fishing voyage to the Straits of Belleisle, returned to Guysborough, "made" their fish, and then had them all swept away by a tremendous storm, and asking for the bounty for which they had expected to qualify.

Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series A volume 17 number 124