And I guess in a (busy?) port like Dartmouth back then, maybe other Jonas Anderson's arrived there...
And now I'm also wondering back then as a country were we prepared to pay to lock them up here, or did we just banish them & put them back on the boat they came here in??.... now I'm curious as to the laws way back then lol....thinking we probably wanted to keep them here to make sure they were punished?...but I don't know for sure....
Perhaps it was hard times & he stole to get food?... Perhaps there was a lot of poverty back in 1823?... I'll have to check out the history of that time..