10 October 1786 - His Majesty’s 28-gun frigate HMS Pegasus commanded by His Royal Highness Prince William Henry (1765-1837) - the future King William IV - ...
Image believed to be HMS Pegasus in St. John’s harbour, Newfoundland in 1786. James S. Meres. Wikipedia Creative Commons. - Contributed- His Majesty’s 28-gun frigate HMS Pegasus commanded by His Royal Highness Prince William Henry - the future King William IV - arrived at Halifax from St. John’s Newfoundland, en route to the West Indies, where he would serve on the North American station under Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson.
- The Port Roseway Gazetteer and the Shelburne Advertiser began its first issue in October 1784. Published by James Robertson junior, who had come from a family of publishers, with his father, Alexander Robertson, and uncle James Robertson Sr., being publishers of the New York-based The Royal American Gazette.
A second competing paper would also begin in Shelburne the following year with the first issue of the Nova Scotia Packet and General Advertiser in April. Published by James Humphreys, who had been the former publisher of The Pennsylvania Ledger . Cartcel was hanged two days later. He “…was the first of at least 133 men and women, mostly men, who were brought to court in mainland Nova Scotia between 1749 and 1815 because they allegedly killed or assisted in the killing of, another human being.”- On this date, Edward Jordan, committed piracy and murder on board the Three Sisters off Cape Canso.
The passenger steamer SS Caribou. Archives and Special Collections, Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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