Salter was tried and convicted for uttering seditions words in February 1777.
 In November 1777, he was also charged with the serious misdemeanour of treasonable correspondence.
Because of poor health, his trial was postponed and hung over him for the last three years of his life.

Later the same year his brig Rising Sun was captured by Salem privateers as prize.
When prisoner in New England, he obtained a pass from the Massachusetts government to settle his family there.
On his return to Halifax later that year, he saw continued court proceedings against him.

Salter has been ranked by historians among the most important entrepreneurs of early Halifax, yet he failed to establish himself securely within its profitable network.

The large house he constructed at the corner of Hollis and Salter streets, about 1760 was eventually purchased by William Lawson and, later demolished to become part of the site of Maritime Place, in downtown Halifax.
Salter was tried and convicted for uttering seditions words in February 1777.  In November 1777, he was also charged with the serious misdemeanour of treasonable correspondence. Because of poor health, his trial was postponed and hung over him for the last three years of his life.
Later the same year his brig Rising Sun was captured by Salem privateers as prize. When prisoner in New England, he obtained a pass from the Massachusetts government to settle his family there. On his return to Halifax later that year, he saw continued court proceedings against him.
Salter has been ranked by historians among the most important entrepreneurs of early Halifax, yet he failed to establish himself securely within its profitable network.
The large house he constructed at the corner of Hollis and Salter streets, about 1760 was eventually purchased by William Lawson and, later demolished to become part of the site of Maritime Place, in downtown Halifax.
Malachy Salter