SAMUEL SPARROW ~ 
18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND 

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South Lambeth 7^th Janry 1793

          Sir,

For the information of the v Commissioners for Auditing Public Accounts. I have to inform you that the Circumstances relating to the article in M^r. DesBarres Account of 100 lbs Flour and 60 lbs pork Charged therein  £ 432. 2. 6 Currency, are as follows. The Meat amo^t is £ 397. 10 to which must be added 1. 6. 8 for Cartage making together  £ 398 16. 8 H. Curcy is the Sum Received and no more; for the Insurance, and what regards that Article was charged upon presumptions, but as the Insurance was not Effected, He had Credit for so much, Also I gave Credit for the Commission, which concessions I made to obtain a settlement with him.         I beg leave to remark that there are in those Accounts Several Insurances similar to the above.

I did not receive payment in any Special manner, for it was considered in the General Account, without & assigning any particular Bills to that Article

I am sir
       Yours most obed^t. &
                very Hble serv^t

Jn^o Wigglesworth Esq                                                               Sam^l Sparrow

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[Source: DesBarres Papers, Series 5, (M.G. 23, F1-5, Vols. 7-12), Representation of DesBarres' Case, Volume 6, p. 1771, Samuel Sparrow to J. Wigglesworth]

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