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1798
NOVEMBER 6
The purchaser may be ACCOMMODATED with respect to the mode of Payment. ---- Apply to Mr. SPARROW.
HALIFAX, 22 Oct. '98.
The Royal Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser, November 6, 1798
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NOTE:
A William Hatton owned a house, large yard, garden, coach house, stables and outhouses, which premises led to the Navy Yard - The Royal Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser, February 27, 1798
The street upon which William Hatton lived was Water Street - The Royal Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser, July 17, 1798
Sparrow was referring to the hurricane that "came ashore near Halifax Harbor on September 25, 1798
David Longshore, Encyclopedia of Hurricanes (New York, 2008), p. 74
For a description, see The Quebec Gazette, November 1, 1798. "NOVA SCOTIA - Halifax, October 2 ... On Tuesday last, in the forenoon ... One continued scene of devastation and ruin, the whole length of the town, from the King's lumber wharf, to the Navy Yard ..."