"About this time, the country
was visited with a dreadful famine, which not only prevailed at Burch Town,
but likewise at Chebucto, Annapolis, Digby and other places. Many of the
poor people were compelled to sell their best gowns for five pounds of
flour, in order to support life. When they had parted with all their clothes,
even to their blankets, several of them fell down dead in the streets,
thro' hunger. Some killed and eat their dogs and cats, and poverty and
distress prevailed on every side, so that to my great grief I was obliged
to leave Burch Town, because I could get no employment."
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