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wherein Steele alleged that Cooke had called him names and threatened him with a stick. Cooke did not show up to the first court date, claiming he was sick; the physician, however, personally notified the court that Cooke was okay to attend the second date. There, he claimed Steele owed him money, then resorted to name-calling when Steele produced a receipt. Unimpressed with his conduct, the court sent Cooke to jail. He spent his one night there writing an apology letter; when released the next morning, he promised to apologize to Steele the following Monday.
134:, which he duly did. Cooke then commanded him onto another ship and he refused; he left shortly after, as "he could serve Cook no longer." The nascent government ordered Cooke to return Hendly's belongings from the ship, pay his wages "from the day of shipping to the day of his dismissal", and cover the fixed court costs.
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damages by Grace and prosecuted by the court for impersonating a justice. During his hearing, he verbally abused the officials and was thrown in jail. After deliberation about how to punish Cooke for being in contempt of court, they decided on a more lenient sentence and charged him a £20 fee with a £500
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class and had friends in the upper echelons of society. Eventually, though, his desire to do as he pleased and his disrespect for the court caught up with him when he issued a warrant for fisherman John Grace, who had not yet gone to trial and thus was not required to be in prison. Cooke was sued for
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from Cooke, who agreed to court proceedings until it was clear that things were not going to settle in his favor. When one of Davis' men brought Cooke the court order outlining the cost, he made it clear he had no intention of paying. When confronted by
Cornwallis, he claimed that the unnamed owner
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Commission of the Common Pleas and Inferior Courts, where he served as a Justice of Peace. There, he had a history of verbally abusing, threatening, and disrespecting other justices, culminating in a disagreement with Justice William Steele in 1752,
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would only pay if he or the ship were seized. Infuriated by Cooke's insubordination and disrespect, Cornwallis issued a warrant preventing him from leaving the harbor until he paid the damages and wrote a note of apology. Cooke scrambled to obey so his warrant would not impact his crew from
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Cooke was left off the commission list following the conflict with Steele, but he maintained that his first appointment was still valid, effectively dismissing the legality of the court's authority. Though he was not himself particularly wealthy, he was still part of the
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from London arrived the following year and, along with local creditors, "sued Cook into oblivion." It is unclear whether he returned to
England for a short period or whether he went straight to form a settlement at the mouth of the Mushamush River in what is now
228:. Cooke brought in Swiss, French, and English settlers to occupy the land and started a ship building company. This trade fully occupied the town, so much so that by the 1900s, Mahone Bay residents were supported almost entirely by the industry.
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conducting his business as a merchant. A nearly identical situation happened in
February 1750, again with Cooke on the losing end. Halifax's justice system was in part shaped out of necessity for handling Cooke's behavior.
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141:, entangling the two vessels. When neither crew could get the ships unstuck, a more senior officer on Cooke's ship separated them with an ax. The owner of the other ship, Mr. Davis, approached the court to request
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