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18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND 

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C-1457

http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c1457/275?r=0&s=5

http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_104684

Letter from Messrs. Dorset, Johnson, and Co. to Charles Long, Esq. 5th May, 1792

... Protested Bills ... in their said Letter of  the 19^th December  1789, were pleased to desire that we should cause immediate Payment to be made of all Such Bills as should be presented to us, or of such Sums as Governor DesBarres should admit to be justly due thereon ... in the years 1784, 1785, 1786 and 1787 ... with an interest at the rate of Five per Cent from the time they became due to the day of Payment ... The Articles of Expense No. 44 & 45, fall under this description, together with that, relating to Mr. Sparrow, who brought new Charges, amounting to several thousand Pounds, and  more against the Service which Lieutenant DesBarres refused, whereupon he was arrested, and an arbitration took place, which took up nearly Two Years, for the Necessity of which reference may he had to the Arbitrators, who, we understand, have addressed their Lordships thereupon ...

DesBarres Papers, Series 5, M23, F 1-5, Volumes 7-12, Representation of DesBarres Case, 1788-1804, May 5, 1792, p. 1618   

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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 -Page 65

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