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18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND
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TRANSCRIBED DOCUMENTS
APPENDIX TO THE TRANSCRIBED DOCUMENTS
SIGNIFICANT NAMES AND PLACES MENTIONED
IN THE TRANSCRIBED DOCUMENTS THAT INVOLVE SPARROW
NAME OR PLACE |
REMARKS |
Acres, John Edward | Of Halifax; Husband of Sarah Sparrow (m.1803-d. c. 1815); Principal Probate suretier of Sparrow; Administrator of the Estate of Samuel Sparrow (upon the Death of Sarah) |
Acres, Sarah |
(See Sarah Sparrow) |
Adam, W. | . |
Addington | . |
Archer, Henry |
Of Sydney
(1785); Merchant/Trader (1785); Loyalist;
[Note: He delivered 2500 feet of boards to Cape Breton in 1785 [NAC, CO 217, Volume 103, p. 132, December 27, 1785, which Henry W. Perry, of London, acknowledged on August 21, 1786] |
Aubrey, [Frederick?], Dr. |
Cape Breton
Landowner (1787)
[Note: He delivered 1000 feet of boards to Cape Breton in 1785 [NAC, CO 217, Volume 103, p. 132, December 27, 1785, which Henry W. Perry, of London, acknowledged on August 21, 1786] |
Bainbridge, George Esquire | On the 1790 panel hearing the Samuel Sparrow versus JFW DesBarres case in London |
Belcher, AndW | Witness (1798); [Possibly: Of Halifax, Merchant and partnered with Alexander Brymer's nephew (1784-1795); Chief Agent for Brymer's London-based commercial empire (1795)] |
Bennett, Rob | Printer (1790) |
Betsey | At Halifax (May 24, 1785) and to go to Sydney; Schooner; Rundle Master [1785]; Sloop (1785); |
Blenheim | J.F.W. DesBarres, Lieutenant-governor of Cape Breton, assembled 129 settlers (not loyalists) in England, that including disbanded soldiers and tradesmen and placed them (but not himself who went separately to Halifax in another ship) aboard the 600-ton Blenheim. The Blenheim arrived at Louisbourg on November 5, 1784 where it was met by Abraham Cuyler and his Loyalists. Without the Loyalists, the Blenheim sailed to Spanish Harbour, landing at Point Edward, on November 24, 1784. Immediately afterwards the settlers moved into some ancient buildings (barracks) at [Sydney Mines]. (Note: DesBarres arrives on Cape Breton, in Louisbourg, in January, 1785, and then by sleigh, in February, went to Sydney Mines) |
Blowers, Sampson Salter | Harvard Graduated Lawyer; served as attorney (defence) for Rex v. Wemms, et al. at the Boston Massacre Trials (1770); Loyalist (Noted in September 1778 Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts); Good friend of Benedict Arnold whom he again met in Halifax in 1780; Nova Scotia Public Attorney; Attorney General of Nova Scotia (December (1784-1797?); Halifax Attorney (1788, 1790) for Sparrow; Attorney (1792, 1793), Chief Justice of Nova Scotia (1797) |
[Bonner?], Jos | Printer (1790) |
Bridge, Thomas | Halifax Signing Witness; Justice of the Peace [Perhaps the son-in-law of Malachy (Malachi) Salter; Thos. Bridge a merchant of Halifax [1770]] |
Brown, William | Cape Breton Island Master Carpenter of the Public Works (1786-); Loyalist?; Blacksmith (1786); Schallop Owner; Signing Witness |
[Bruser, Rd ] |
Sparrow's 1790 attorney |
Buston, & Tyson |
DesBarres bill held on Buston & Tyson |
Byles, Mather | Halifax Signing Witness. [Perhaps Church of England clergyman, married three times: to Rebecca Walter on 12 May 1761 in Roxbury (Boston); to Sarah Lyde on 10 Feb. 1777 in Halifax, N.S.; and on 2 Oct. 1788, also in Halifax, to Susanna Reid, née Lawlor; In 1776 he fled with the British troops to Halifax, where he lived precariously as chaplain to the garrison and assistant to the rectors of St Paul’s Church. In May 1784 he went to England to press his claims for compensation as a loyalist. Awarded £120 and an annual pension of £100 in the form of “a perfect Sinecure,” the lifetime chaplaincy of the Halifax garrison, he returned to Halifax in May 1785.] |
Camberwell
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Located in Surrey, England. For centuries Camberwell [well of the crooked or cripples] was a village that provided cures for cripples and flowers and fruits to the London, the capital. |
Cannon, Mary ("Polly") | Of Castle Frederick, New Brunswick; Common law wife of Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarre; Administered DesBarres' Nova Scotian estates after he left for England during October of 1773 and Castle Frederick (1773-1827). On her appointment as his agent in 1776 she was given power of attorney in land transactions, and was to consult him only for final decisions. |
Cape Breton Island |
From 1763 to 1784 the island was administratively part of the colony of Nova Scotia and governed from Halifax. In 1784, Britain split the colony of Nova Scotia into three separate colonies: New Brunswick, Cape Breton Island, and present-day peninsular Nova Scotia, in addition to the adjacent colonies of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. The colony of Cape Breton Island had its capital at Sydney on its namesake harbour fronting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait. In 1820, the colony of Cape Breton Island was merged for the second time with Nova Scotia; this being present-day peninsular Nova Scotia. [ http://www.answers.com/topic/cape-breton-island ]. |
Cape Breton Island - Mira |
The Mira River (to the French known as the Miré), is located 14 miles south of Sydney |
Cape Breton Island - Sydney River |
Sydney River (originally Spanish River) is located just west of Sydney |
Carr, Samuel | Halifax Signing Witness. |
Castle Frederick | In Falmouth, Cumberland, Nova Scotia,; A place 52 miles from Halifax |
Charleston, South Carolina |
In 1800, Charleston (this spelling was adopted in 1783), was the 5th largest city in North America, behind Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Quebec City. |
Charlotte Street (London) | JFW DesBarres writes (1790) from this location, in the heart of the west end on May 3, 1790. |
Clunes, Alexander | Of Halifax (1786); Carpenter; Sparrow supplied him with building materials |
Cossit, George | Witness (1798) |
Cork & [Co Sears], Mssr or Cork & [Co Sears], Mssr | Cases of Plates & Charts of the Atlantic Neptune were deposited in a warehouse belonging to Mssr Cork & [Co Sears] in 1790; Snow Hill |
Crawley, Thomas | Of Westmount, Cape Breton; Surveyor General of Cape Breton (1803-1809); Surveyor General of Lands (1809-1834) |
Crown - British |
The symbol of the power of the British monarchy; GEORGE III (r. 1760-1820) became heir to the throne on the death of his father in 1751, succeeding his grandfather, George II, in 1760. He was served by two long-lasting ministries: that of Lord North (1770-82) and that of Pitt the Younger (1783-1801). |
Cuenod, Andrew | Halifax Merchant; Nova Scotia Landowner; Owned Two Halifax Houses (1782) sold to Sparrow; To Leave Nova Scotia (1782) |
Cumberland | DesBarres held property here that Sparrow serviced with product; Castle Frederick was a place 52 miles from Halifax |
Cumming, Andrew | Late of Halifax; Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer; Co-Partner with John George Cumming |
Cumming, John George | Late of Halifax; Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer; Co-Partner with Andrew Cumming |
Cuyler, Abraham Cornelius |
Former Mayor of Albany, New York;
Esquire; Cape Breton Island Loyalist; Secretary Registrar and Clerk of
the Council (1784-1787)
"Abraham Cuyler, Esq., former mayor of Albany, residing in London in 1784, laid a memorial before the King stating that he and others were deprived of their property on account of their loyalty to their country and were desirous of coming to Cape Breton. The memorial was favorably received and a number of people styling themselves « Associated Loyalists » sailed in three vessels for Cape Breton, in charge of Colonel Peters, Captain Jonathan Jones and Mr. Robertson, late officers in the Corps of Royal Rangers, and associates of Mr. Cuyler, and arrived at the end of October. About 140 persons, furnished with clothing and provisions from the British Government, and under the charge of Captain Jones and Mr. Alexander Haire, came to Cape Breton by these vessels." ["Laurence Kavanagh," By The Rev. D. J. Rankin," CCHA Report, 8 (1940-1941), 51-76 ] |
Cuyler, William |
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Daywell, Mr. | On the 1790 panel hearing the Samuel Sparrow versus JFW DesBarres case in London |
DesBarres, Joseph Frederick Wallet [Des Barres, Joseph-Frédéric Vallet], Esquire | Born at Basel, Switzerland (1721); At Louisbourg (1758); of Halifax c.1761 to 1773; 1784); While in Halifax, charged by the Admiralty to make accurate surveys and charts of the coast and harbours of Nova Scotia; Of England (1773-1784); While in England, he oversaw the publication of his Atlantic Neptune; At St. Peters/Louisbourg (1784-1785); Of Sydney (7 January 1785); Lieutenant Governor (August 26, 1784-1787) of Cape Breton Island; Suspended February 26, 1787; Quit the Government on October 7, 1787 and sailed for England in the same month; of England (1787-1804); Of Prince Edward Island (1804-1812); of Amherst (1812-1817); Of Halifax (1817-1824). |
Delesdernier, Moses | Gentleman; Late of Halifax; French Swiss; Emigrated to London, England, in 1740, and ten years later came to Halifax with Gideon Delesdernier (brother or his uncle); Landowner; Land agent. |
Deschamps, George | Judge, Common Court of Pleas, Hants County, Nova Scotia |
Diane | Sparrows account books in Halifax were to arrive in England upon this ship in 1790, but did not arrive until 1791 |
Dodd, Archibald Charles | Cape Breton Island Signing Witness; Esquire; Collector of Customs (1787-1794); Private Secretary to Lieutenant Governor Governor Macarmick (1794-1795); Chief Justice (1797-) |
Doe, John | Halifax Supreme Court (Eastern Term - 1785) |
Dolben, Sir William Bart. | On the 1790 panel hearing the Samuel Sparrow versus JFW DesBarres case in London |
Donnelly, Lachlin | Of Halifax (1785); Dealer; Sparrow supplied him with merchandise |
Dorset, Johnson, and Co. | Dorset, Johnson, Wilkinson & Berners, 68, Old Bond Street, Bankers [SOURCE: Kent's Directory for the Year 1794. Cities of London and Westminster, & Borough of Southwark http://www.londonancestor.com/kents/kents-zbanks.htm ] |
Down, Charl Jn | Engraver (1790) |
Drummonds, Messrs |
Of
Charing Cross, London; Bankers; The bank of Alexander Leslie (1785), J.
F. W. DesBarres (1793); John
Drummond (1793)
[Note: Fludyer and Drummond [1761]; Harley and Drummond [1776]; Andrew Drummond founded his Drummond's Bank in 1717, and by 1744 he had over 400 accounts in his ledgers and his diverse clientele included English as well as Scottish aristocrats, men of the arts, hospitals and religious and charitable institutions. In 1760, he moved the firm to a commissioned building on the bank's present site on the west side of Charing Cross. Andrew Drummond died in 1769 and a series of subsequent partnership agreements divided the business among three branches of the Drummond family. During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, many important professions and crafts used Drummonds for their banking needs. As well, two of the partners were involved in substantial Treasury contracts (payment of British troops in Canada and America) with the firm also keeping accounts for King George III and his family. The present Royal Bank of Scotland was created through a series of mergers and acquisitions, including Drummonds Bank in 1924 The Ledgers, which contain customers' accounts since the founding of the bank, still exist, housed in the Board Room. There is also an archives.] |
Eaton Street | DesBarres writes from here in 1793 |
Edgeware Road | Home of McKerby |
Fanning, Edmund | Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (September 23, 1783-1786); Lieutenant-Governor of St. John Island [Prince Edward Island] (November 4, 1786 to May 10, 1804); On PEI, Fanning turned to his Nova Scotia Loyalist friends and placement on the civil list in an attempt to govern (1786-1790); Sparrow debt (1789) |
Finucane, Byran, Esq. | Witness; Perhaps Chief Justice of Supreme Court (1778-1785) until his death |
FitzGerald, Gerald | Halifax Attorney (1784/1785) for Sparrow |
Fleet Street |
Fleet Street is named after the Fleet River, a river that flowed into the Thames. It was the centre of London's publishing industry from 1500 until the late-20th century. |
Foller, Edward | England; Proctor |
Frasier or Fraser, Colin | 33rd Regiment; Cape Breton Island Loyalist; Illiterate; Labourer |
Garsoiss?, Thomas | Cape Breton Island Landowner |
General Elliott | Ship Of London, England; In Halifax (1784) - Of interest, on July 21, 1784 (i.e. post visit to Halifax), Peter Lilley (or Lilly), now outward bound in the Good Ship General Elliott [perhaps named after Governor the Right Honorable General Elliott of Gibraltar], made out his will - http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk |
Gibbons, Richard | Esquire; Born about 1734 in England; President of the Executive Council of Cape Breton Island; Chief Justice (1784-); Died in a French prison in Nantes in 1794. |
Gould, H | An official attending the 1790 lawsuit between Sparrow and DesBarres |
Gravois, Joseph | Of
Halifax (1783); a Mariner;
Sued
Sparrow for payment of wages (1783)
[Note: Is this the same Joseph Graveis who delivered 3500 feet of boards to Cape Breton in 1785 [NAC, CO 217, Volume 103, p. 132, December 27, 1785, which Henry W. Perry, of London, acknowledged on August 21, 1786] |
Gray & Ogilvie | DesBarres bill held on Gray & Ogilvie [Financial agents. London, 1775-1798?] |
Grays Inn Coffee House or Gray's Inn Coffee House | Samuel Sparrow versus JFW DesBarres held here in 1790s. [Inquisitions were generally held in taverns and coffee-houses up until the 1880s, when courtrooms started to take over. One of the most popular venues was Gray's Inn Coffee-House, next to the gateway to Gray's Inn in High Holborn, London] |
Green, [Francis] | Halifax County; Sheriff; Second son of Benjamin Green; Loyalist; Returned to Nova Scotia in June 1784 and in November was appointed sheriff of Halifax County, succeeding William Shaw; lost lawsuit to John Stairs in 1787; Temporary treasurer of the province (1793); Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas (1794) |
Haire, Alexander | Cape Breton Island Loyalist; Commissaire of the Cape Breton Loyalists; Chief Surveyor (1787); Member of the Executive Council of Cape Breton Island |
Halifax |
Founded in 1749, ""The town was laid out in squares or blocks of 320 by 120 feet deep, the streets being 55 feet in width. each block contained 16 town lots, forty feet front by sixty deep, and the whole was afterwards into five divisions or wards, called Callendar's, Galland's, Ewer's, Collier's and Foreman's divisions, after the names of the persons who were appointed captains of Militia, each ward being large enough to supply one company." [Akins, "History of Halifax City", The Nova Scotia Historical Society, vol. #8, 1895), p. 10. Salter Street was the south limit; and Buckingham, the north. |
Halifax - Callenders Division |
See Halifax |
Halifax - Careening Yard |
The Halifax careening yard was established in 1758 |
Halifax - County of |
Halifax County, established by Order-in-Council on August 17, 1759, comprised all that part of peninsular Nova Scotia except for Annapolis, Kings, Cumberland and Lunenburg counties. After 1763, Cape Breton Island was formally annexed to Nova Scotia and for a time formed a part of Halifax County |
Halifax - Dutch Town - Dutch Village | In the North suburbs of Halifax and first Settled by German ("Deutsche" corrupted into "Dutch"); First there was the downtown area established in 1749 with, to the south of that, "Irish town"; and, to the north, "Dutch town." |
Halifax - Foreman's Old Division |
See Halifax |
Halifax - Supreme Court of Nova Scotia |
Jonathan Belcher, a New Englander was sworn in as chief justice of the newly established Supreme Court on October 21, 1754. The court began sitting once or twice a year in communities outside Halifax in 1774. |
Halifax - Red Hospital |
Former
Hospital; Number 12, North Suburbs fronting
easterly on Water
Street Leading to the Careening yard; A large house, dating from at
least 1766, leading to the Careening Yard.-
See: Allan Everett Marble, Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799 , p. 133.
[Note: Soon after the founding of Halifax, public works were undertaken to construct an Orphan House, a Workhouse, a Hospital and a Poor House]; In the year 1765 there were two hospitals in the north suburbs, near the beach at the foot of Cornwallis Street called the Red and Green Hospitals. They were there in 1785. One stood on the site of the present North Country or Keating's market, the other stood on property now owned by the heirs of the late H.H. Cogswell. [A. Aikins, History of Halifax City, p. 213.] Keating's market stood at 3 and 5 Cornwallis Street [McAlpine's Halifax City Directory for 1886-87, p. 159]
"In 1765 there were two hospitals near the
Beach at the foot of Hawe's This old store is
probably the one owned by Mr. Hawe and was occupied
In 1880 are records of two houses still to be
seen on this old street, one at [Norman H. Gosse, "Water, Salt, and Sugar," in The Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, 1938 Vol. 17(4), pp. 235-236] |
Halifax - North Suburbs | On the peninsula, this was Halifax central or the core of the city, but is now Halifax's North End |
Halifax - South Suburbs | The south suburbs stretched to South Street |
Halifax - Water Lots | Stood in Front of Dutch Town |
Halifax - Water Street |
South Suburbs |
Hall & Co. |
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Harrison & Co; Harrison, Bainbridge [Rainbridge?] & Co [circa 1793] ; House of Harrison & Co | London Representative for Sparrow [Note: There was a Harrison & Co, 18, Paternoster row, that was a London publisher at this time, and which, earlier, had published some of the maps of Captain James Cook - also a Harrison & Co., Perfumers, 56, Cornhill ]; London Merchants. |
Hatton, William - Water Street, whose premises led to the Navy Yard | Sparrow owned a store and wharf lying opposite Hattons |
Haywood, Robert | Of Halifax; Deceased by 1788 |
[Hintch Ink Fields] | Sparrow/DesBarres Court Case held held here in 1790 [Perhaps address of Gray's Inn Coffee House or near-by] |
Hirnish, Gotlieb | Of Lunenburg in the County of Lunenburg (1787); Dealer; Sparrow sued him re promissory note |
Hockenhull, John | Administrator of the estate of Robert Haywood; Halifax Shopkeeper (1793) |
Hope | Schooner, wrecked without insurance |
Hopkins, Richard | England; Lord Commissioner of the Treasury [- 1794 -]; |
Howe, Lord | He served from 1783 until 1788 as First Lord of the Admiralty during the Younger Pitt's first ministry. |
Hurd, Thomas | Esquire |
Industry | Merchant Ship; Sparrow served on it |
Island of St. Peters (St.-Pierre ) | Sloop Nancy sold there |
Jodrit, John, [Jodrid, John, Jodrid, Jn] |
Master of the Schooner Swallow |
Johnson | Of London |
Johnson | Sparrow valued DesBarres' Impressions here |
Kavanau | Jn Kavanaugh |
Kavanaugh, Jn' | Of Cape Breton |
Kent | England; County |
Kerby [Kirby], John | Of Halifax (1781); Attorney (1789) for Sparrow; Merchant (1790) |
Kerby [Kirby], Edward | Of Halifax (1781); Gentleman Probate Suretier of Sparrow (1815) |
King George III |
See Crown - British |
Kirby, [Kerby?] John | Of Halifax |
[Kriol], Mr | Produced 2 Imperfect Sets of Atlantic Neptune for Sparrow |
Lambeth
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Sparrow, formerly of South Lambert [Lambeth], Surry - Lambeth, which fronts the Thames River, includes: Camberwell, and the Parish of Saint Gilles. Peckham is its neighbour. |
Lambert | See Lambeth |
Leake, John Martin | England; Auditor |
Leightheizer, W. J. | Halifax Signing Witness. |
Leslie, Alexander |
Of
Halifax (1785); Merchant; 3rd
party Sparrow held 2nd party Thomas Maxwell bill of exchange drawn
in favour of defaulted 1st party Alexander Leslie |
Lidstone, Thomas | Halifax Signing Witness |
Lloyd, William | Halifax Signing Witness; Supplied Cape Breton Island |
London | It had a population of just under 600,000 at the beginning of the 18th-century. By 1800, with over a million people, it was the largest city in the world and London's suburbs had rapidly encroached upon the surrounding villages. West London was fashionable but slums were the norm on the eastern edge of the city. |
Long, Charles |
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Macarmick, William | Lieutenant General of Cape Breton Island (February 26, 1787 to October 7, 1787 when DesBarres quit the Government - May 27, 1795) |
MacKworsth, Sir Herbert Bart. | On the 1790 panel hearing the Samuel Sparrow versus JFW DesBarres case in London |
MacWorth | See MacKworsth, Sir Herbert Bart. |
Maria | Ship at Halifax (1781) |
Maxwell, Thomas |
3rd party Sparrow held 2nd party Thomas Maxwell bill of exchange drawn in favour of defaulted Ist party Alexander Leslie |
McCarty, Margaret | Cape Breton Island Signing Witness (1787) |
McKerby | 1790 Sparrow/DesBarres Court Case; No 26, Edgeware Road |
McKinnon, H [D or perhaps even W] | Registrar (1799) |
McKinnon, William | Of Carolina, Born in Scotland; Cape Breton Loyalist; Esquire, Land Grants Secretary and Registrar; Secretary and Register of Deeds; Secretary Register and Clerk of the Council (1792-1793) |
McMonasle, Hugh | Of New Brunswick, County of Westmoreland, Estates of Petticoudiac and Memramcook, |
Medcalf, Thomas | Medcalf held a Sparrow promissory note obtained by Robert Heywood |
Millett, William Jr. | Of Halifax (1782); Auctioneer, Merchant |
Monk, George Henry | Attorney-at-law (1788 (Halifax), 1792) |
Moody, James | Merchant; Witness for John Hockenhull |
Moody, J. W. | . |
Morden College |
England,
County of Kent, England, Blackheath; Morden College was built in 1695
for Sir John Morden to accommodate pensioners: "poor, honest, sober
and discreet merchants who shall have lost their estates by accidents
and perils of the seas, or by any other accidents, ways, or means, in
their honest endeavour to get their living by way of
merchandising"; Believed to
have been built a on maze (ancient sacred site); 19 St Germans Place,
Blackheath, London,
SE3 0PW "These with the poor Merchants are to have a Common Table in the Hall, to eat and drink together at Meals; And each have their convenient Chambers and Apartments, with Cellars. The exact Number of such as are to be admitted there, is not appointed; but to be more, and augmented according as the Estate will bear, and the necessary Expences allow of. But it is thought the Number may at least amount to Forty Persons; there being Harbour for that Number. The Number of such as are to be admitted. The
Pension allowed to each Person admitted there, is 20l. per Ann. for
their Commons, Firing and other Necessaries. Each to wear Gowns in the
College with the Badge of the Founder, and to be 50 Years of Age at
least. "
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Morris, Charles, Esquire | Of Halifax; Registrar of wills and probate (1792-1798); Surrogate General of the Probate Court (1798-1802) |
Mugrave, W. | England; Auditor |
Nancy | Sloop; Foreign Built, American vessel, Sold at the island of St. Peters (St.-Pierre ) |
Newman, Timothy | Of Halifax; Trader |
Nepean, Evan, Esquire | London; Under-Secretary, Home Office (1782 to 1795). |
Neptunia | Of London |
Nicole | |
Old Bond Street | Dorset, Johnson, Wilkinson & Berners |
Parliament Street Coffee House | Samuel Sparrow versus JFW DesBarres held here in 1790s. [A masonic lodge, founded 1757 as the Parliament Street Coffee House Lodge. It adopted the name Castle Lodge in 1773 and was subsequently renamed Shakespear Lodge?] |
Parsons, L. | England; Surrogate |
Peabody | Printer (1790) |
Peckham [Peckham,
Camberwell, Surrey]
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England,
Surrey: "Peckham,
on the Surrey side, between two and three miles SE. from London-bridge,
lies for the most part rather low, but on gravelly soil. The large open
common of Peckham Rye, and is neighbour, Goose-green, are on higher
ground; the ascent continuing to Nunhead and Honor Oak, which latter
stands about on a level with the Crystal Palace. Houses are to be had in
the lower part of Peckham at a rent as low as £30 a year, but they are
of course small. As the ground rises in situation the rents rise with
it; and though they never attain the standard of such situations as
Sydenham, Richmond, &c., they are considerably beyond what would be
required for houses of the same class at a similar distance on the
northern side of town. Taken altogether, however, the Peckham district
may be considered, as in proportion to its advantages, one of the
cheapest in London. NEAREST Railway Stations, Peckham Rye and Queen’s-road,
Peckham; Omnibus Route, Peckham-road." [Victorian
London - Directories - Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles
Dickens, Jr., 1879:
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to Source
]
In the 1790s and early 1800s, Peckham was a fairly small village within the much larger parish of St. Giles [the patron saint of cripples], Camberwell [well of the crooked or cripples] In other words, Peckham was a hamlet of the parish of St Giles, Camberwell. http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/SRY/Camberwell/WholeGaz1868.html "An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in CAMBERWELL : ..."PECKHAM, a hamlet and suburban district in the parish of Camberwell, E. division of the hundred of Brixton, county Surrey, 3½ miles S. by E. of St. Paul's, London. Until a few years ago it was an inconsiderable village, forming one principal street, but has recently become a suburb of London, containing 28,135 inhabitants, besides 8,154 within the ecclesiastical district of St. Mary Magdalene ... |
Perry, Henry Widmore | Cape Breton Island Loyalist; Commissaire of Stores; Private Secretary to Desbarres (June 24, 1784-October 12, 1787); Examiner of the Public Accounts |
Peters Bay |
St Peter's Bay |
Peters, Dr | Note from Sparrow to Dr. Peters |
Peticodiac Estate | New Brunswick; J. F. W. Desbarres Estate |
Pictoo | Pictou |
Piers and Hill | Halifax Auctioneers (1782) |
Pitt, William, Honourable | England; Prime Minister of Great Britain (19 December 1783 – 14 March 1801); Chancellor of the Exchequer (December 19, 1783 – March 14, 1801); Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer (- 1794 -); First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (- 1794 -) |
Poesch, Louis | Halifax [Merchant](1782) |
Porridge, Mr. | 1790 Sparrow/DesBarres Court Case |
Pott, P. J. L. | England; Notary Public |
[Proad?], John | Witness for John Hockenhull |
Randall, William, Esquire [Possible Variation Rundal] | Of Morden College, County of Kent, England; Nova Scotia Landowner, [Note: William Rundal, North Suburbs, in 1752] |
Rialto | Of London; Ship at Halifax (1781) With Goods for Sparrow as well as for John And Edward Kerby |
Roberts, William, Esquire | London, Charleton Street, Marylebone; DesBarres Personal [Financial] Agent |
Robertson, Neil, Esquire |
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Rodgers, George, Esquire | Cape Breton Island Surveyor (1785-); Superintendent of the Public Works at Sydney (May 1786); Secretary to DesBarres (July 12, 1786-June, 1787); Member of the Executive Council of Cape Breton Island |
Roe, Richard | Halifax Supreme Court (Eastern Term - 1785) |
Rogers, William | Of Halifax; Gentleman Probate Suretier of Sparrow (1815) |
Rundle, John | He occupied a Halifax house owned by Sparrow in 1783; Merchant (1784); Occupies (1784) Store on Hollis Street, Lately Occupied (1784) by Sparrow; Cape Breton Island Property Owner; Coroner (- 1794); Coroner (1791); The parishioners of St. George's Church, Sydney, met on October 2nd, 1786, at 12 o'clock. The appointed Church Wardens chose, among others, Mr. Rundle as a Vestry Man for the year [The Cape Breton Historical Society - Some Papers and Records of the Society 1928 to 1932, No 1, 1932,"The First Seventy Years of St. Georges", p. 12] |
Russell, Thomas | Surrey; Sparrow Acquaintance |
Saint Bride | London Parish (Fleet Street); There is a Medieval Chapel at Saint Bride's Church which is the journalists church. As it was the hub of the publishing industry, generations of British writers from Shakespeare to Dickens knew it intimately. [ http://www.hiddenlondon.com/stbrides.htm ] |
St. George's | Grenada |
St Giles [Saint Gilles, Saint Giles, St. Gilles] [Camberwell (Parish of St Giles), Surrey, London] | Surrey Prish (Camberwell); Parish of St. Giles [the patron saint of cripples], Camberwell. [Parish of Saint Gilles, Camberwell in the County of Surrey] The main burial grounds in use in Camberwell in the early years were the parish churchyards of St Giles and St George as well as the burial ground at Dulwich. |
St.-Pierre | See Island of St. Peters |
Salter, William | Halifax Signing Witness |
Shadds Place | See Shards Place |
Shards
Place or Shard's Place
This
plan shows land in Peckham owned by Charles Shard in 1830. His land is
shown coloured green. |
A
small terrace of houses off Meeting House Lane, near the centre of
Peckham, Surrey. Shard was the name of a landowning family in the
district. In the Surrey Collection in the Lambeth Archives Library there is a map of the Estate of William Shard in 1775. The Shards were Peckham landowners, and this map shows all the small strip fields which William Shard held in Peckham North field. - http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol07/vol07_09/07_09_229_231.pdf |
Sherlock, George William, Esquire | Halifax County Justice of the Peace; Merchant (1792, 1793) |
Sheriff of Cumberland | [Charles H. Chandler was sheriff of Cumberland for 38 years and was succeeded in turn by his son Joshua who held it for 28 years - one of these?] |
Slater, Lydia | Nova Scotia Co-Landowner (with William Slater); Estranged wife of William Slater |
Slater, William | Halifax Merchant; Nova Scotia Landowner; Signing Witness |
Smith, John | Esquire, Sydney Merchant; Cape Breton Island Landowner; Provost Marshall (1791-1792) |
Snow Hill | London (1790); Warehouse belonging to Mssr Cork & [Co Sears] in 1790; Snow Hill |
South Lambert
[South Lambeth]
http://archivemaps.com/mapco/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry. |
England, County of Surrey |
South Carolina | By the 1750s, rice and indigo had made the planters and merchants of the South Carolina lowcountry the wealthiest men in what would become the United States. Government encouragement of white Protestant settlement in townships in the interior and migration from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina were to give the upcountry a different character: smaller farms and a larger percentage of German, Scots-Irish, and Welsh settlers. By 1790, this part of the state temporarily gave the total population a white majority, but the spread of cotton plantations soon again made African American slaves the majority ... South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the United States Constitution in 1788, and in 1790 moved its seat of government from Charleston to the new city of Columbia in the state's midlands. [http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/history.htm ] |
Sparrow, Samuel, Esquire | Of South Lambert [Lambeth], County of Surrey, England; Late of Shadds Place, Peckham, Parish of St. Giles (Camberwell), County of Surrey; Halifax Merchant (c. 1774-); Sometime Holder of Power of Attorney; Agent for DesBarres; Sydney Merchant; Member of the Executive Council of Cape Breton Island; Cape Breton Island Justice of the Peace; On the ship Industry; Of South Carolina, Late of Charleston (d. c. 1799) |
Sparrow, Sarah | Wife of Samuel Sparrow (m. ?- d. c. 1799; Wife (m. 1803-d. c. 1815) of John Acres. |
Spiller, R, Esquire |
DesBarres bill held on Spiller |
Stairs, John | Of Halifax; Merchant: Stairs sued Francis Green in 1787 for allowing a man Stairs had confined to debt to escape in 1786 and won; bankrupt c. 1789; Debtors prison; Masonic friends bailed him out of prison; Departed for Philadelphia 1793 |
Stansbury, Elizabeth | Sister of Samuel Sparrow |
Steele | . |
Sterns | Assistant to George Henry Monk (1788) |
Stephens |
. |
Stephens, Philip, Esqr. |
Sir Philip Stephens (1723-1809) was Secretary to the Admiralty for 32 years from 1763 to 1795. He was a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty from 1795 to 1806. |
Stout, Richard, Esquire | Of Halifax; Of a Loyalist family; Of Cape Breton (c. 1788); Cape Breton Merchant; Partner and local Cape Breton agent in the Firm, Tremain, Stout and White (- 1790 -); Member of the Executive Council; Surrogate General; Assistant Secretary and Clerk of the Council; Deputy Provost Marshall; Provost Marshall; Deputy Secretary |
Stuart, J | Witness (1798) |
Supreme Court of Halifax | The Supreme Court of Halifax was established in 1754 (Jonathan Belcher the first Chief Justice) and it initially heard cases only in Halifax. The court house stood at Northup's Corner, northeast corner of Buckingham and Argyle Streets. In 1774, a circuit for the Court, to Horton, Amherst and Lunenburg, was established. |
Surrey | England; County; Located South of London - The county of Surrey included the present-day London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth until 1889. |
Swallow | Schooner (1785) |
Swayne [Benjamin Swain? Loyalist] | [Carpenter] |
Sweet, Richard, Esquire | Cape Breton Island Surveyor (1785-); Member of the Executive Council of Cape Breton Island |
Sydney | The Metropolis of Sydney (Work began November 19, 1784); Located on the South West Arm of Sydney Harbor, it was founded by United Empire Loyalists in 1785. Originally known as Spanish Bay, Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres, lieutenant-governor of the colony of Cape Breton, renamed it Sydney in honour of the Hon. Thomas Townshend, first Viscount Sydney. |
Sydney | Schooner (1785); John Wilson Master |
Sydney - [Bladein?] |
. |
Sydney - Amelia Street |
North End |
Sydney - Charlotte Street |
. |
Sydney - Esplanade |
. |
Sydney, Lord; also Thomas Townsend | Home Secretary (1784) |
Sydney - North Charlotte Street |
. |
Sydney - South Charlotte Street |
. |
Sydney River - South West Branch of Sydney River | One of the two branches of the River where there was settlement, just beyond the Town of Sydney |
Sydney River - North West Branch of Sydney River | One of the two branches of the River where there was settlement, just beyond the Town of Sydney |
Swallow | Schooner |
Taitt, David, Esquire | Of West Florida and Carolina; Cape Breton Island Loyalist; Provost Marshall (1784-); Surveyor (1785-1787); Cape Breton Island Signing Witness (1787) |
Taylor, Mr. | Assisted DesBarres at his 1790 England court case |
Todrid, Jn [Joduit, John] |
. |
Townsend, Gregory | Halifax; Commissary of Stores and Provisions for Cape Breton Island |
Townshend, John Thomas | England; Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (-1794-) |
Tremain [Tremaine]& Co. | Firm, Tremain, Stout and White ( - 1790 -); Jonathan Tremain; loyalist; of Halifax (1786); Halifax merchant |
Twaddle, John | Yoeman; Witness for John Hockenhull; Labourer (1793) |
Uncle, Thomas | Esquire; Loyalist; Collector of His Majesty's Customs at Sydney |
Underwood, William | Halifax Signing Witness; Illiterate |
Uniacke, Richard John jr. | Of Nova Scotia; Lawyer; Born (1753) at Castletown, County Cork, Ireland, of landed gentry; Arrived in Nova Scotia via Philadelphia (1774); Returned to Ireland (1777) to complete his law studies; Settled in Halifax (1781); Appointed solicitor general for the province (1781); Elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1783); Advocate general of the Vice-Admiralty Court (1784); Became Speaker of the House of Assembly (1789); Halifax Attorney for John George and Andrew Cumming (1797); Appeared for Mary Cannon (1787); Attorney General (1797-1830) |
Venture, Mr. |
. |
Wakeham, Thomas Junior | Mariner of St. John's Newfoundland (1788, 1791) |
Wapping |
John Marius
Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England
and Wales, 1870-72:
WAPPING, a parish in Stepney district, Middlesex; on the Thames, at the
London docks, 2 miles ESE of St. Paul's, London. It forms a low strip
along the river's bank; was overflowed or marshy till the time of
Elizabeth; was then reclaimed, embanked, and converted into meadow and
building site; had only one street in the time of Charles II.; was the
scene of Judge Jeffries' capture in a sailor's disguise in 1688; formed
part of Whitechapel parish till about 1695; became all occupied with
streets or with appurtenances of London harbour; is now occupied, over
considerable space, by part of the London docks; suffered demolition of
many houses for dock extension prior to 1861.
See British-History's Map - # 24 - St. John Wapping WAPPING, St. John, Church Street [1617, out of Stepney 1694] gutted in WW2, tower remains, small church built in ruins, parish united to St. Peter, London Docks. |
Wells, Jn | Engraver (1790) |
Wendham |
. |
Whiston, Robert | Whiston Wharf (1781); Randall claimed (1782) it was granted to Whiston in error and it belonged to him |
White, Joseph | Of Ketch Harbour, County of Halifax (1785); Fisherman; Supplier of fish to Sparrow October 5, 1784-August 12, 1786 |
Wigglesworth, John, Esquire | Of England; Inspector General |
Wilkinson, Samuel |
. |
Wilkinson, John | Banker |
Wilkinson,
John [Is John W. Wilkinson?] |
From London; Milliner and Mantua Maker (1785) |
Wilkinson, W. John [Is John Wilkinson?] | Cape Breton Island Supplier; Sparrow Agent/Clerk (1785); Super Cargo; Distressed Lame Man Receiving Welfare (1796) |
Wilkinson, John [Is John Wilkinson?] | Desbarres would appoint a John Wilkinson to his Council. |
Williams , Mrs | Had lodged and boarded at Sparrow's House at Halifax |
Wilson, John | Master (1785) of the Schooner Sydney; Of Sydney (1799); merchant; Cape Breton Island Landowner (1799) |
Witts, Broome Phillips, Gentleman | Of London; Sparrow Acquaintance; Broome Phillips Witts of Friday Street, Cheapside, London, silkweaver |
Wood, Daniel Jun | Halifax Signing Witness; Clerk; Halifax Attorney (1789, 1792, 1793) |
[Source: The Transcribed Documents (1749-1817) and expanded upon using many other sources]