vice-admiralty prize court

By 1752 he was living in New London, Connecticut, where he was marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court.

The Vice-Admiralty Court accepted the explanation and ordered Mauger’s rum returned.

Two years later he was appointed a surrogate judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax.

Prizes condemned by the Vice-Admiralty Court often needed repairs.

All three vessels made port at Halifax, where an inquiry took place before Alexander Croke*, judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court.

Thirty-three prizes taken under his command were disposed of before the Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax.

On 22 Oct. 1819 he succeeded his father as advocate general of the Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax.

Wallace also served briefly after the War of 1812 as judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court.

In addition to being chief justice and councillor, Blowers served as judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court between 1821 and 1833.

However, thanks to his friend and patron, Governor John Parr*, he was made advocate general of the Vice-Admiralty Court the same year.

In April 1779 he was appointed registrar of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Rhode Island and he also served as paymaster to at least two provincial regiments.

Three years later he emerged from a scramble of applicants to become master of the rolls and judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court.

Only the eldest son, also George Okill Stuart*, lived to maturity; he became mayor of Quebec City and judge in the Vice-Admiralty Court there.

He was later successful: the goods and the schooner from which they had been landed were seized and sold by order of the Vice-Admiralty Court sitting in Charlottetown.