PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation:

Today in Island History

1770 John Duport is sworn in as the Island's first chief justice. His salary is meant to come from quit rents paid by Island proprietors on their properties. Most don't pay, and when Duport dies a few years later, starvation is listed as one cause.

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