Collective Violence in Ferryland District, Newfoundland, 1788

• Main Author: English, Christopher
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Schulich Law Scholars 1998
• Subjects: courts; riotous assembly; Ferryland; loss of wages; flogging; banishment; Irish; Protestant; legal history; Westminster; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/dlj/vol21/iss2/7; https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1779&context=dlj

In September 1788 a court found 114 men guilty of riotous assembly in the district of Ferryland the previous winter. This event is remarkable for the number involved (45% of the adult male population of the district); for the number of charges (21% of all civil and criminal actions heard in the dist...