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18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND 

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C-1456

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[p. 1209]

31 Dec^r 1790
Grays Inn Coffee House
S^r W Dolben
S^r H Mackworth
M^r Bainbridge
M^r Sansom
M Petrie

Acc^t of Charts & Plates which Sparrow sold from the Packages _ £257.5.7.

Number of Copper Plates taken at Sydney by Jⁿ Rhundle 285 large and small.

That 6 Plates were wanting, by comparing the Plates in the Cases with a Complete Impression of  the work by Sparrow __ who has also assured on Oath that he had no complete Impression.

Impressions in general sold for 1/ a Sheet, Some 2/6, or half a Dollar.

... Rob^t Bennett, printer } to meet at Mes ^M Cock & Co
Jⁿ Wells __ Engr   ___   }  Snow Hill on Monday at
Cha^r Jⁿ Down D^o   ____ } 10 oClock AM.
Peabody __  printer        }

Sparrow asserted that he had Questions to put to Desbarres that would puzzle him most Seriously to answer; and on being desired to put them he said he meant to put these Questions before another Board.

       DesBarres Papers, Series 5, M23, F 1-5, Volume 6, Accounts, 1767-1794, December 31, 1790, p. 1209

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