1788, October 3 - New Brunswick Peticodiac Estate - Samuel Sparrow Cape Breton Island creditor against the Peticodiac estate of J. F. W. DesBarres

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18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND

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.[f. 153]

Spring Gardens 3d. Oct: 1788 ....

Executions are now levied on my Several estates hereafter mentioned.

By [f. 154]

In the
Province
of
Nova Scotia

In the
Province of
New Brunswick

{          By Tremain & Stout for two
{Thousand Pounds, and M^r Neil
{Robertson for one Hundred and
{Sixty five Pounds on my Tateme-
{gouche Estate _____
{     By Jⁿ Jodrit, on my Minudie
{Estate for five Hundred Pounds
{      By Sam^l. Sparrow for four thous-
{& forty Pounds, on my Peticodiac
{Estate

I have the Honor to be
with great respect

Sir-

                         Your most obedient and
                                  most humble Servant
                                         J. F. W. Des Barres

Evan Nepean Esq

Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, Original Correspondence (CO 217), Colonial Office, Cape Breton "A", Macarmick, 1788, M.G. 11, C.B., Vol. 5, October 3, 1788, pp. 153-154 (Col. Cor. C.B. Vol. 64, October 3, 1788, p. 431)

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[f] The property, here alluded to, consisted of several Tracts of Land, Situate in the Province of Nova Scotia, in the Purchase of which in the year 1761... DesBarres had laid out upwards of Twenty thousand Pounds.

The Creditors for Supplies to the Public Service, having obtained Judgments, respectively levied Executions, and, not only the Cattle and Produce were sold by the Sheriffs' Officer and carried off the Premisses; but the Property of a considerable l'art of the Soil was also conveyed to them according to the Laws of that Province. (Vide, Judgments obtained and exhorbitant seizures made, by John Jodrit, Niel Robertson, Tremaine and Company, Samuel Sparrow, Hall and Company, James Kavanaugh, &c: &c: for only Ł. 11,641 14s. 11d.);No Remittance whatever has been received since the Period of the said Executions and Seizures from the said Property - the Proceeds thereof, (reduced by these Derangements) has been applied towards defraying Law Expences, repairing Devastations, and reinstating the Tenants...

several of my Estates, which, since 1787, have been seized by sundry Creditors to me for the Public Service in Cape Breton, via. Tatmegoushe, Castle Frederick, Menaudie, &c ...

A statement submitted by Lieutenant Colonel DesBarres, for consideration [microform] : respecting his services, from the year 1755, to the present time : in the capacity of an officer and engineer during the war of 1756 : the utility of his surveys and publications of the coasts and harbours of North America, intituled, The Atlantic neptune : and his proceedings and conduct as lieutenant governor and commander in chief of His Majesty's colony of Cape Breton (1796) - https://archive.org/details/cihm_94770 -Pages 84

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