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SAMUEL SPARROW ~
18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND
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MAY 9, 1786
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Manuscript Group 11, Colonial Office
220,
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Sessional Papers,
Minutes of Executive Council, 1786
(Transcripts of Colonial Office Records)
(M.G. 11, C.O. 220, C.B. "B", Vol. 2)
ff. 113-117
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At a Council holden at Sydney the 9th Day of May 1786.
Present
His Excellency the governor
} Richard Gibbons President }
The Honble } Richard Sweet
}
} Alexr Haire
} Esquires
} George Rodgers
}
His
His Excellency the Governor was pleased to call to this Board as a Member of His Majestys Council Samuel Sparrow Esqr who being present took the Oathes prescribed by Act of Parliament and Subscribed the Declaration likewise took the oath of a Councellor and his seat at this Board accordingly
Present
His Excellency the governor
} Richard Gibbons President }
} Richard Sweet
}
The Honble } Alexander Haire
} Esquires
} George Rodgers
}
} Samuel
Sparrow
}
His Excellency the Governor was pleased to nominate the Honble Mr Sparrow one His Majestys Justices of the Peace for the Island of Cape Breton and its dependencies ....
His Excellency the Governor laid before the Board all the accounts of the Expenditure of the Public Money from the 19th Novr 1784 to the 24th March 1786 inclusive with all the Vouchers in support of the same to be Inspected examined into and audited ---
Whereupon it was moved by the Honble Mr Sparrow that a Committee be appointed to examine the said Accounts and report thereon to the Board -- Whereupon it was Unanimously resolved and ordered that ----
} Alexr Haire }
The Honble } George Rodgers } Esquires
) Samuel Sparrow }
be a Committee for that purpose ....
[Source: National Archives of Canada, MG 16, 18, Cape Breton, B, Volume 2, May 9, 1786, pp. 113-114; RG 1, Cape Breton, Executive Council Minute Books, 1785-1820, Volume 318: Minutes of Council of the Island of Cape Breton from July 1785 to 16th July 1787. Collected and Bound by The Commission of Public Records, Halifax 1862 - Microfilm Reel PANS 15398]
C-1456
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In May 1786 Sparrow moved in Council for a Committee to examine the Accounts & report - Sparrow (Haire being absent) & Rodgers, reported - the Council approved and confirmed - this Sparrow says, may have been done ignorantly and wickedly - ...
[Source: DesBarres Papers, Series 5, M23, F 1-5, Volume 6, Accounts, 1767-1794, May 31, 1790, pp. 1195-1196]
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