Voices of the People

Nova Scotia House of Assembly Petitions and Correspondence

11 February 1812

Petition of John D. Hawthorn and James Barss, describing how they 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 18 number 8