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SAMUEL SPARROW ~
18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND
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C- 1456
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(1) SEE ALSO: APRIL 7, 1785 AND MARCH 15, 1786
(2) SEE ALSO: APRIL 7, 1785 AND MARCH 15, 1786
(3) SEE ALSO: APRIL 7, 1785 AND MARCH 15, 1786
[p. 1184]
29 March 1790
Gray's Inn Coffee House
Sundries Ship to Cumberland _
£115. - 1
Do _______________________ 841.17.9
[?]
Sparrow asserted an oath that the
above Sundries amounting to £115. - 1 were for Desbarres own use in Cape
Breton
Desbarres objected to the Lumber
Amount and desired Mr Sparrow to produce vouchers for the Same and
for the Sundries amt to £956.17.9
Mr Bainbridge said that
it is a Confidence usually placed in Merchants [achiy] by Comn to
accept their Invoices as a Charge for the Goods Sent without calling for the
Bills of particulars given in by the Tradesmen of [where] the Goods were
[brought] and that for 25 years he has been in Trade never was asked for Such
Bills of particulars
Desbarres desired Sparrow to
produce the Policy of Insurance on 100 blle flour & 60 Bll
Pork pr Schooner Sydney shipped 19 Novr 1785
[p. 1185]
Desbarres objected to Comn
on Sundry goods
________
Sparrows Mrs Williams
had lodged and boarded at his House at Halifax, [Lie]
________
D. objected to the Cargo (pr
Swallow) £692.10.4 shipd 17 July 1786 - bad Good & enormous Prices
Sparrow Said he had general Orders of Agency
________
10 Nov 1786 pr Schooner
Sydney £296. 17. 6 Sold by Wilkinson to individuals at enormous Prices, Objected
therefore to Comn - Sparrow declared that he had charged no more than
prime Cost & charges, and that Comn was due. And that the residue of
the Cargo had afterwards been Delivered to Desbarres.
Smuggled Spirits were ordered to go from the Isld with the vessel
Sparrow Says that the Goods were sold at Prices 20 to 40 pct lower
than they would have sold and that he had done for benefitting Desbarres
government
________
Sparrow says he attached the
Estates in N Scotia because part of the Plates & Charts were not delivered in
order to make good the want of such Delivery
He valued the Impressions at Mr Johnson on £1700 that what he had
received were incompleat Setts and had only 2 Setts bound
He delivered an Acct of Charts & Plates on his Oath
________
[p. 1186]
10 prct
Damage on Bills not to be allowed, no Law whatever authorising Such a Charge in
Cape Breton
________
Schooner Hope & Cargo £337. - .2
and Sloop Nancy £97.19.8 are fabrications
________
produced Sparrow's Letter of the 10 Dec. 1784 and 20 June 1785 - also a Letter
from Jn' Kavanau of 28 Apr 1785, who Sparrow called a sad fellow now
in Joal for £16000
DesBarres Papers, Series 5, M23, F 1-5, Volume 6, Accounts, 1767-1794, March 29, 1790, pp. 1184-1186