By the summer of 1784 racial tensions were building. Many white soldiers were discovering that it was almost impossible to find work. Almost nobody had received farm lots, and settlements like Port Roseway were filled with large numbers of unemployed soldiers with nothing to do and no prospect of finding work. The people of Shelburne were under the impression that they would be have their land surveyed and secured much sooner than actually was the case. People who had been told that Port Roseway was fertile, easily cleared land were bitterly disappointed. Benjamin Marston, the chief surveyor, wrote in his diary about the mood in the town just before the riot. He knew people were unhappy and that something was about to happen.
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