SAMUEL SPARROW ~ 
18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND 

Return to the Samuel Sparrow Home Page

TRANSCRIBED DOCUMENTS 
[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Atlantic Canada Newspaper Survey

© CHIN 2003. All Rights Reserved
http://daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/BASIS/acns/user/www/SF 

• Newspaper Name: NOVA SCOTIA GAZETTE AND THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE 
• Newspaper Volume Number: 11
• Newspaper Issue Number: 792
• Newspaper Page Number: 1
• Newspaper Column: 1
• Date Continuation Appearance: 17810814; 17810821; 17810828; 17810904; 17811003; 17811016

• Date First Appearance: 07 August 1781

• Illustration : NO 
• Subject - General Context: MARKETING, RETAIL; PROPERTY, MOVEABLE; TRADE, FOREIGN 
• Group/Announcement/Type: PRODUCT 
• Product Category Code: DEFFBT; DEPHG; DEFM; DEOET; DEMEP
  Product Sub-Category Code: FD; LIGHT; CL; HOUSE; FOOT; BED; FASH; COS; TFAB; ORN; TOOL; STAT; PAP 
• Product Transaction: FOR SALE; IMPORTED, STATED 

• Place-Country/Province/State: NOVA SCOTIA
• Place-Municipality: HALIFAX
• Place-County: HALIFAX COUNTY

• Person/Business: SPARROW, S. 
• Occupation: MERCHANT
• Vessel Name: RIALTO

• Description: JUST IMPORTED, IN THE RIALTO, BY S. SPARROW,...N.B. S. SPARROW BEGS LEAVE TO OBSERVE, THAT HE EXPECTS BY THE MARIA, A LARGE AND VALUABLE ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS. 
    
• Food/Feed/Beverage/Tobacco: JUICE, LEMON IN PUNCHIONS (SIC)
    
• Fabricated Materials: DRILLINGS, RUSSIA; DIAPER, RUSSIA AND HAMBRO; CALLICOS, PRINTED; DIMITIES, FIGURED AND CORDED, BORDERED FOR PETTICOATS; CORDS, ONE HALF ELL AND YARD WIDE DUTCH; QUILTING, MARSAILLES; LAWNS, PLAIN AND FIGURED; GAUZE, ELEGANT; TIFFANIES; RIBBONS; MODES; SARINETS; SATTINS; LACE, BLACK, BLOND, THREAD; EDGINGS, BLACK, BLOND, THREAD; CANVAS, GREEN FOR WINDOW BLINDS; HABERDASHERY, ALL SORTS; CRAPES, AN ASSORTMENT OF NORWICH; CALLIMANCOS, AN ASSORTMENT OF NORWICH; TAMMIES; POPLINS; LUSTRES; BUNTING, FOR SHIPS COLOURS; GLOBES 
    
• Other Equipment/Tools: TELESCOPES; QUADRANTS; COMPASSES; INSTRUMENTS 
    
• Personal Household Goods: LINENS, IRISH, THREE QUARTER AND ONE HALF YARD WIDE; TABLE-CLOTHS, DIAPER, ALL SIZES; BED BUNTS; COUNTERPANES; HANDKERCHIEFS, LAWN, CHECKED, PRINTED, LININ; UMBRELLOS, SILK; PERFUMERY, ALL SORTS OF; SHOES, FRENCH HEEL, WOMENS, CHILDRENS; FANS, WOMENS, FRENCH; STAYS, WOMEN'S, GIRLS; PETTICOATS, STUFF; HATS, MENS, WOMENS SATTIN AND MODE; GLASS BY THE PACKAGE; EARTHEN WARE BY THE PACKAGE; CANDLES, MOULD AND DIPPED PER THE BOX; MOULDING, GOLD FOR ROOMS 
    
• Misc/End Products/Other: STATIONARY, ALL SORTS OF; PAPER HANGINGS, BLUE, PEAGREEN AND LEMON COLOURED, A VARIETY OF FIGURED; CHARTS, AN ASSORTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL, NAUTICAL 

• Province of Origin: NS
• Contributor: GRI87 SSHRCC
• Cataloguer: MACDONALD, SHELDON
• Transcription Date : 15 April 1988
• Record Number: 88-1644
• Unique Record Identifier: 26055

Return to the Samuel Sparrow Home Page