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18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND
MORE ABOUT 18TH-CENTURY
SAMUEL SPARROW
(An Evolving Project - 2001 to Present)
By Eric Krause
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(1) TRANSCRIBED SAMUEL
SPARROW DOCUMENTS
SPARROW'S SYDNEY
54 Charlotte Street Property Maps - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
POST 1749
Not Dated - Property, Lot 29, Dutch
Town, Nova Scotia ----- (Dutch Village/Samuel Sparrow)
Not Dated - Property, Lot 29, Dutch Town, Nova Scotia (A Plan of the Water Lotts in front of Dutch Town) ----- (Dutch Village) - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1750
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1774
SAMUEL SPARROW ARRIVES IN HALIFAX
[1774 or, more likely, 1775 or most probable, 1776]
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NOTE FOR 1774 - 1800:
Nova-Scotia The Halifax Gazette,
and The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle
Only selections from the 1750s-1800s of Nova-Scotia The Halifax Gazette, and The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle are available on line as of January 17, 2017.
Selections reviewed from The Halifax Gazette, and The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle were as follows:
1774 (Sections: January-December)
1775 (Sections: January-October)
1776 (Selections: July, September)
1779 (Selections: January-December)
1780 (Selections: January-December)
1785 (Selections: January-December)
1786 (Selections: January-December)
1787 (Selections: January-December)
1788 (Selections: January-December)
1789 (Selections: January-March).
The
Royal Gazette
and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser
Selections reviewed from The Royal Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser were as follows:
1789 (April-December)
1798 (August-December)
1799 (January-December)
1800 (January-October)
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Samuel Sparrow, by his own admission, arrived in Halifax c. 1774. - Sparrow in Halifax
[See 1776 for an alternate date for Sparrow's arrival]
When Mr. Des Barres Came over to his Government in the year 1784 __ (being then of ten years Establishment as a Merchant in Halifax) I was to unfortunate as to be the person he applied to for the purpose of Supplying his Government with the Necessaries of Erecting Public works at Cape Breton towards establishing a town and Settlement.
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1775
NOTE: PLEASE
SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
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1776
NOTE: PLEASE
SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
According to DesBarres, it was 1776 that Sparrow left Wapping and 1st Arrived in Halifax. Sparrow was a merchant. - Sparrow in Halifax
[See 1774 for an alternate date for Sparrow's arrival]
I am informed that Mr Sparrow began his Career in the year 1776 - He was at Wapping And took a passage in a very low Station, on Board of a Brig then about sailing for Nova Scotia. He insinuated himself to a Man lately discharged from my Service going out in the same vessel with about £ 500 vested in Merchandise. Upon the Vessels arrival at Halifax, the Servant receiving the Appointment of Steward to the Hospital put his Goods in Mr Sparrow Hands to manage, by the means of Which Mr Sparrow started up, trafficked in his own name, obtained Credit, and realised a little Money. But the poor Man who had intrusted him With his property is utterly ruined. It is by Repetitions of similar Sharp-Doings that Mr. Sparrow has emerged.
1779
NOTE: PLEASE
SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
1779, August 24, The Nova
Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle- Just Imported, By Samuel Sparrow
-------- (Samuel Sparrow) [Sparrow Intends Going
To England]
1779, September 14, The Nova
Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle- Just Imported, By Samuel Sparrow
-------- (Samuel Sparrow) [Sparrow Intends Going
To England]
1779, September 21, The Nova
Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle- Just Imported, By Samuel Sparrow
-------- (Samuel Sparrow) [Sparrow Intends Going
To England]
1779, September 28, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle- Just Imported, By Samuel Sparrow -------- (Samuel Sparrow) [Sparrow Intends Going To England]
1780
NOTE: PLEASE
SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
According to T. B. Akins, "History of Halifax City," Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Volume 8, Halifax: Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1895, p. 213, quoted by Allan Everett Marble, Surgeons, Smallpox and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 1993, note 220 (Pages 131-5):
... 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. ...
1781
1782
1782,
January 1, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Sale of Goods ----- (Sparrow)
1782,
March 5, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Payment and Collection
of Debts by Andrew Cuenod and Sparrow's Ownership of Cuenod Properties, of
which one is occupied by Sparrow -----
(Andrew Cuenod and Sparrow) [Sparrow intends by
first good opportunity to take passage to London, on his way homeward]
1783, January 20 - Property and Red Hospital [Cornwallis Street], 1/2 of Ground Lott described as Letter A, No 12, North Suburbs fronting easterly on Water Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Registered January 25, 1783 ----- (William Slater/Lydia Slater to Samuel Sparrow) -- Sparrow, merchant, in Halifax
1783 - 1784
1783, July 22 - April 15, 1784: 1783 Supreme Court Session - Joseph Gravois v. Samuel Sparrow (S.C. 1783) (1) Debt ~ Wages (2) Praecipe (3) Attachment (4) Bail (5) Affidavit (6) Declaration (7) Rule (8) Plea (9) Affidavit for Continuance ----- (Joseph Gravois/ Samuel Sparrow) - [Sparrow absent from the Province, but expected back shortly after April 15, 1784]
1784
1784 Halifax Lots
- North Suburbs - Letter 8, Number 12 (Samuel Sparrow)
1784,
January 20, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - John Rundle Selling
Goods off the GENERAL ELLIOTT at the Store, off Hollis Street, Lately Occupied by Sparrow
----- (John Rundle and Sparrow) - [Sparrow absent from the Province,
but expected back shortly after April 15, 1784]
1784,
December 10 - A Sparrow letter from Halifax to DesBarres re Procurement of
New England Lumber, Bricks and Lime (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W.DesBarres)
- Sparrow in Halifax
1784 - 1786
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1784-1786, Plans and elevations for 28 buildings in Sydney,
Cape Breton Island. On 17
sheets.
The 17 Sheets
(5) F. Provision store; G. magazine for tools and stores;
(6) H. building at the coal-mines, fitted for Lieutenant Governor Des Barres;
(7) I and K. two sheds;
(8) L. smith's forge; M. carpenter's workshop;
(9) N. barracks for 6 companies; barracks and provision stores;
(10) O. brewhouse; P. commissary's provision store;
(11) Q. gaol; R. officers' messhouse;
(12) S. school and temporary chapel; T. comptroller's house and office;
(13) U. shed for working oxen; V. market house;
(14) X. guardhouse; Y. commanding officer's house;
(15) Z. building for accommodation for families of soldiers; a. hospital;
(16) b. root and green cellar; c. sergeant major's quarters;
(17) d. offices for secretary and clerks, for Public Works;
(18) g. building for issuing provisions; h. provision magazine;
(19) f. temporary church and school;
(20) e. temporary government house;
(21) church on octagonal plan, to be erected on the Grand
Circus.
National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 1353 - MPD Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Treasury and Treasury Solicitor MPD 1 Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series of records of the Treasury and Treasury Solicitor, MPD 1/180 21 items extracted from T 1/738. Maps and plans relating to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Detailed descriptions are given at item level.
1784-1786, Plans and elevations for 28 buildings in Sydney, Cape Breton Island. On 17 sheets. (5) F. Provision store; G. magazine for tools and stores; (6) H. building at the coal-mines, fitted for Lieutenant Governor Des Barres; (7) I and K. two sheds; (8) L. smith's forge; London, Public Record office, M., Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Treasury and Treasury Solicitor 1670-1920, MPD 1/180/5-21
SEE ALSO:
These buildings are also described in written detail in the DesBarres Papers, Series 5, M23, F 1-5, Volumes 7-12, Representation of DesBarres Case, 1788-1804 (Published Work After 1787-Before 1794, pp 1554-1626), ff. 1615-1616 [C-1457]
The DesBarres Papers are available at:: http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_104684 -National Archives of Canada Microfilm Reels: C-1455, C-1456, C-1457, C-1458, C-1459, C-1460, C-1461
These buildings are also described in:
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) - pp. 61-63 [1784-1786 - DesBarres - Description of Sydney Buildings]
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1784 - 1787
1784 - 1788
1784 - 1789
1784 - c. 1790
1785
NOTE: PLEASE SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
1785 -
Plan of
the Town of Sydney in the Island of Cape Breton. By J. W. F. DesBarres;
Lieutenant Governor, Cape Breton. [PANS 239-1785]
- MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1785,
May 24, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - For Cape Breton the Sloop
BETSY, For Freight or Passage Apply to S. Sparrow ----- (S. Sparrow)
- Sparrow in Halifax
1785
June 24 - July 16: 1785 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow vs Alexander
Leslie ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Alexander Leslie) [Sparrow in Halifax as of June 24, 1785]
1785, June 26 - Letter of Sparrow, Halifax, re
DesBarres rejection of Sparrows offer of Procurement of New England Lumber,
Bricks and Lime --- Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
- Sparrow in Halifax
1785, August 4 and August 8
- New Settlement on the Island of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia in the Year
1785 - Founding of Sydney by Lt. William Booth, 1785
- MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
[1785, October 1 - 1787, October 13] -------Sparrow Flour and Pork
(£432.2.6); Boards, Shingles, Planks, Bricks (£1,117.4), Provisions
(£547.18.2), and BETSY (£40.17.1); and SYDNEY (£375.7.9) ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)
1785,
October 28, The Halifax Journal - Goods For Sale Advertisement ----- (S. Sparrow)
1785, November 19, Sparrow
Flour and Pork Invoice (£432.2.6) - (Sparrow, DesBarres)
- Sparrow in Halifax
1785, November 28, Mary Cannon - Samuel Sparrow (Cannon/Sparow)
Other financial difficulties also created problems for Mary during this period. The establishment and consolidation of DesBarres' position as governor of Cape Breton had called for large financial outlays and he had relied on the assistance of Samuel Sparrow, a Halifax merchant whom Mary had recommended in 1785 as "a gentleman with whom you may deal with safety"...
"... By 1787, however, Sparrow was claiming that DesBarres owed him in excess of £4,000 and, to extract payment, the properties at Minudie and Maccan-Nappan were attached, as well as 5½ shares of land at Falmouth, which DesBarres had conveyed to Mary in 1782. She retained Richard John Uniacke as the attorney for a court appearance in July 1788. 33 In November, she reported to DesBarres that "Your affair was likely to be settled and Mr. Sparrow detected in his unjust proceedings. These creditors of government had left undone nothing where in the Law would abet them but rather exceeded its bound" 34 ......When Samuel Sparrow sued DesBarres in 1787, Waugh had surrendered to Mary all the livestock on the Tatamagouche estate to enable her to pay the debt. ....She [Mary] was naive in her dealings with many associates and after 1790 she was noticeably lax in prosecuting her duties. 76 ...
33 Sparrow vs. DesBarres, 1787, RG39 "C", box 50, PANS. RG39 "J", vols. 8 and 9, Judgment Books, show no rendered decision for the case which was presumably settled out of court, perhaps because Sparrow was, indeed, making unscrupulous demands. The 5½ shares of Falmouth property were deeded to Mary in 1782 for the nominal fee of 5 s., and it was noted that the property was already in her possession. The transaction was not registered until 1786. See Registry of Deeds, vol. 4, p. 383, Hants County. This was the only part of the Castle Frederick estate ever owned by Mary, and the remainder was retained by DesBarres until deeded to his daughters in 1819." Lois D. Kernaghan, "
34 Cannon to DesBarres, 5 November 1788, DesBarres Papers, vol. 6, p. 1126.
76 Her initial confidence in Sparrow is a good example. Amelia DesBarres to DesBarres, 18 August 1802, DesBarres Papers, vol. 19, p. 3814, also notes that Mary was deceived by the sub-agent at Memramcook-Petitcodiac, Mr. Downing, for years.
Lois Kernaghan, "A Man and His Mistress: J.F.W. DesBarres and Mary Cannon" in Acadiensis XI, 1 (Autumn 1981), pp. 23-42, pp 30, 38. - etc.hil.unb.ca/ojs/index.php/Acadiensis/article/download/11188/11924
... The Tatamagouche
property was also attached on three different occasions: by David Hall, for
a debt of some £150, by Neil Robertson for an outstanding £188, and by
Jonathan Tremain and Richard Stout for a claimed £1500 debt. There were
further problems at Minudie, where a Halifax sailor named John Jodrid [Joudrey]
had the tenants' cattle seized by the sheriff, to ensure payment of some
£300 owed him by DesBarres. In every instance, Mary Cannon was left on her
own, as DesBarres' attorney, to defend the properties as best she could;
although Uniacke was again retained for the defense, DesBarres was found
guilty in each suit. ...Lois Kernaghan, A Man and his Mistress: J.F.W.
DesBarres and Mary Cannon, Acadiensis, p. 30 -
https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/viewFile/11188/11924
1785, December 30 - North America: Colonies or States: Cape Breton: W Roberts: encloses list of bills drawn on him by Lieut Governor Des Barres for erecting public buildings - London, Public Record Office, T 1/624/352-355 [future]
- Reference: T 1/624/352-355
Description:NORTH AMERICA: Colonies or States: Cape Breton: W Roberts: encloses list of bills drawn on him by Lieut Governor Des Barres for erecting public buildings
Date: 1785 Dec 30
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
1785 - 1786
1786
NOTE: PLEASE
SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
1786 - Plan of the Town of Sydney in the Island
of Cape Breton. By J. F. W. Des Barres
- Includes copies by Albert Almon, C. Pettigrew and Thomas Crawey - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1786 - Elevation and ground plan of the
Barracks, Sydney, Cape Breton Island. By J. F. W. Des Barres, [Halifax]. MS.
-
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1786 - Elevation and ground plan of the Court House, Sydney. Cape Breton Island. [By J. F. W. Des Barres, Halifax.] MS. About 7 feet to 1 inch. - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
Note: Possibly
misdated at the Library and Archives of Canada as 1813:
http://data6.collectionscanada.ca/exec/getSID.pl?f=e/e097/e002418374&cat=sid&X110=&l=e&p=1&t=na03
- NMC-992 -
NMC-993 -
NMC994
1786 - Elevation and ground plan of
Schools, teachers' houses, etc. Sydney, Cape Breton Island. [By J. F. W. Des
Barres, Halifax]. MS. About 7 feet to 1 inch.
-
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1786, May 9 -
Sparrow took the oath as an Executive Member /Nominated as a Justice
of the Peace/ and nominated for the Public Accounts Committee, Cape Breton Island,
where Sparrow moved in Council for a Committee to examine the Accounts (19th
November 1784 to the 24th March 1786) & report ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
- Sparrow arrives in Sydney from Halifax in the Spring of 1786, According to
DesBarres
NOTE: Sparrow was a
member of the Executive Council of Cape Breton for some period during the tenure of DesBarres,
starting with his entry on May 9, 1786 until his last meeting of September
24, 1787
1786, May 11 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow
1786, May 15 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
1786, May 17 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
1786, May 23 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
1786, May 27 - Memorial of
John Dacres, Agent to the Navy Victualler, asking that rum purchased (from
Samuel Sparrow and John Fallian Son) may be moved into the victualling stores ----
Samuel Sparrow
1786,
June 2 - Crown Land Grant to Henry Archer to Block 27, Lot A - GO TO HENRY
ARCHER
1786, June 5
- Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
1786, June 5 - Executive
Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow) - According to DesBarres, Sparrow goes to Halifax sometime in June
1786, July 9 - A PLAN of The TOWN OF
SYDNEY IN THE ISLAND OF CAPE BRETON C.O. Nova Scotia No. 61 by DESBARRES -- 54 Charlotte Street Building
-
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1786, July 12 -1786,
December 24 -- Samuel Sparrow Charge for Provisions (£547 18 2), and Boards and Nails
(£40
17 1) ---
(Samuel Sparrow)
1786, July 25 - 1786, October 10: 1786 Supreme Court Session - Samuel
Sparrow v Alexander Clunes (S.C. 1786) (1) Goods sold & Delivered (2) Acct
(3) Affidavit of Debt (4) Capias (5) Praecipe ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Alexander
Clunes)
- Sparrow "of Halifax,
Merchant," in Halifax on September 15, 1786 and on September 22, 1786
1786, October 19 -Payment on July 15,
1786 Invoice for Provisions Shipped on the SWALLOW ( £493.2.5)
... Engraving of the plates had begun in 1774 and is claimed to have been completed in 1780. As DesBarres' salary had been stopped in 1779, and as his habitual financial problems became ever more acute, it seems unlikely that he continued employing engravers after that year. Certainly no production could have continued after October 1784 as on the 16th of that month DesBarres sailed from England to take up his post as Lieutenant Governor of the newly-established colony of Cape Breton, taking the plates with him. An estimate based on later musters suggests there were some 251 full-size plates as well as numerous smaller ones, Even ignoring the extra weight these must have added to the Governor's baggage the decision to take them seems a curious one. It was, or should have been, a peak period for the marketing of his atlas and he was unlikely to find facilities for reprinting in Cape Breton. One possible explanation is that sales of his atlases were not proceeding all that briskly and that ample stocks remained unsold in London. A representative sample of plates weighed in the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, resulted in an average figure of 7.5 kilograms for a large plate and an approximate total for the whole collection of 2,100 kilograms, or 4,600 lbs., of copper ...
Underfunded and on inhospitable territory DesBarres found it a struggle to keep his colony viable. Both supplies and money soon ran short and the Governor was reduced to negotiating credits on his own assets. A principal creditor for the shipping of necessities was a Mr. Samuel Sparrow of Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the Autumn of 1785 Sparrow visited the Governor at Sydney, Cape Breton's newly-founded capital, in order to negotiate a contract for the supply of provisions. DesBarres first offered him a mortgage on his lands in Nova Scotia but Sparrow showed little enthusiasm for this offer. Instead he expressed an interest in The Atlantic Neptune. If DesBarres would put the work into his hands "his mind would be rendered perfectly easy, and he would engage to make any future supplies which might be wanted". According to DesBarres, Sparrow stated that the charts were greatly in demand, "a treasure which lay buried". He wished to be entrusted with the sale of them which would "procure the means of amply supporting all the Exigencies of the Infant Colony". DesBarres was in no position to argue; a bargain of sale was drawn up allowing Sparrow to approach the Admiralty with an offer to purchase the whole collection. The first £5,000 plus a half of any-excess on that figure was to be credited to DesBarres against the cost of provisions supplied. The plates, together with "a large quantity" of impressions were delivered to Mr. Sparrow on board his ship and they started on their way back to London after their first brief residence in North America.
In July 1787 DesBarres was recalled to London, arriving in April 1788 in disguise in order to escape his now numerous creditors, including Samuel Sparrow. The latter's high expectations of the value of The Atlantic Neptune had, not been realised. Sparrow had announced himself as the new owner but failed to interest the Admiralty in its purchase. All Sparrow did succeed in doing was to sell a number of single charts, mostly at one shilling a sheet, but some at two shillings and sixpence.
A Committee of Arbitration was appointed to sort out the ex-Governor's financial transactions and between March 1790 and May 1791 this continued to meet in various inns and coffee houses in the City of London. On the whole the ex-Governor seems to have survived these hearings with his reputation intact and most of his expenditures were met. When the case of Samuel Sparrow came up the Committee ordered an audit of the unsold stock and plates,
This revealed a printed stock of: -
20 superior sets, complete. 4 volumes each
4 sets which want the 3rd & 4th volume
6 sets of Nova Scotia in sheets.Of the plates, packed in cases in a warehouse at Snow Hill near St. Paul's Cathedral, there were 286, both small and large. Of these 202 were described as "good" and eighty-four as "bad". Mr Sparrow claimed that these represented all he had received at Sydney and that on comparing them later with a complete set of impressions in his possession he had found six missing. The outcome of the arbitration left DesBarres repossessed of his collection, possibly by now to Sparrow's relief. DesBarres himself appeared a shade less enthusiastic; he would probably at this juncture have preferred £5,000.1 [The National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, DesBarres Papers, MG 23, Fl, Series 5, Volumes 4-6]
Throughout the years that followed, his efforts to capitalise on The Atlantic Neptune continued, but with little success. On his appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island in 1804 his son, James Luttrel DesBarres, continued to work in London to improve the family finances. In 1813 the Admiralty was once more approached to buy the plates, a quite extraordinary figure of £40,000 being quoted as the price. This time, however, the family were not only dealing with a professional Hydrographic Office but with a man [Captain Thomas Hurd] in charge who nursed a strong antipathy to the ageing Joseph ... [Christopher Terrell, "A sequel to The Atlantic Neptune of J.F.W. DesBarres: the story of the copperplates," in The Map Collector, Number 72 (Autumn, 1995), pp. 1-9. Thanks to Gillian Hutchinson, Curator of the History of Cartography, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, who informed me of the existence of this article and to Mike Klein, Senior Reference Librarian, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. for providing me with a copy.]
In 1948, Lord Inverchapel, Britain's ambassador to Washington, revealed that DesBarres's copper plates from the Atlantic Neptune were being distributed among the appropriate American libraries and historical societies along the Eastern Seabord according to the territories they showed. "The Quarto: Prepared in the Interests of Book Collecting at the University of Michigan", UM Libraries, No. 15, March 1948, p. 4.
Of interest: A DesBarre copperplate, once in Sparrow's hands, that did not survive into a 20th century inventory was DesBarres' chart of Charles Town, South Carolina [Christopher Terrell, "A sequel to The Atlantic Neptune of J.F.W. DesBarres: the story of the copperplates," in The Map Collector, Number 72 (Autumn, 1995), p. 6] So - Was this the reason that Sparrow as in Charlestown, South Carolina, in 1799, to sell the missing plate that perhaps he had not turned back in 1791?
1786, October 28 - J. F. W.
DesBarres, Cape Breton Island, Made Over the Impressions and Plates of his
Works to Samuel Sparrow, Merchant of Halifax, and Desires of the Admiralty a
5000 Pounds Consideration for the Said Neptunia ----- (J. F. W.
DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)
1786, October 28 - J. F. W.
DesBarres, Cape Breton Island, Made Over the Impressions and Plates of his
Works to Samuel Sparrow, Merchant of Halifax, and Desires of the Admiralty a
5000 Pounds Consideration for the Said Neptunia ----- (J. F. W.
DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)
1786 - 1787
1786, October 24 - April 16, 1787: 1786 Supreme Court Session - Samuel
Sparrow v Joseph White (S.C. 1786) (1) Debt (2) Praecipe
(3) Capias (4) Affidavit & Account (5) Bail AND Accounts September 1784 -
December 1, 1786 ----- (Samuel
Sparrow/Joseph White) - Sparrow, "of Halifax,
Merchant," in Halifax on November 27, 1786
1786, October 24 - 1787, April 10: 1787 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow v John George and Andrew Cumming (S.C. 1787) (1) Debt (2) Capias & Praecipe (3) Affidavit of debts & Accounts (4) Bail (5) Rule to Plead ----- (Samuel Sparrow/John George Cumming/Andrew Cumming) - Sparrow, "of Halifax, Merchant," in Halifax on March 24, 1787
1787
NOTE: PLEASE
SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH
1787 --- Members of Council, Cape Breton and Examination of DesBarres
Accounts By Council---- (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)
1787 - Mira, Cape Breton Island -----
(Crown to Samuel Sparrow)
1787, July 17
- Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ------ (Samuel Sparrow)
1787, July 23
- Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
1787, July 24
- Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
1787, July 24
- List of Bills drawn by DesBarres -Sparrow's Provisions: £337 17 0 - (Samuel Sparrow)
1787, July 24, - Payment For Articles (£337.17.0) Shipped on Schooner
SYDNEY, J. Wilson Master, by Sparrow (Samuel Sparrow/Wilkinson)
- Sparrow in Sydney as of July 24, 1787
1787, September 1 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel
Sparrow)
1787, September 20 - Executive
Member, Cape Breton Island ------(Samuel Sparrow)
1787, September 22 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel
Sparrow)
1787, September 24 - Executive
Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
1787, October 12 - Samuel Sparrow Noted As Being Absent From The Old and New Council (Samuel Sparrow) - Sparrow perhaps not in Sydney
In 1787, from Cape Breton Island, "... DesBarres departed for Europe, having chartered an old brigantine to convey him thither. Having been warned that those who claimed money from him [he had kept the Sydney colony going pretty much on his own signature], because of the bills which had been dishonoured, were waiting to have him arrested, he sailed to the Island of Jersey where he arrived on December 7th. He sent a requisition to Lord Sydney asking for a guarantee of immunity from arrest so that he might safely visit London, but this was refused [Sydney, who was to get DesBarres the job as Cape Breton's governor, but just a few years earlier was to desert DesBarres]. He, thereupon, went secretly in disguise to England and reached Whitehall in April, 1788." (John Webster Webster, The Life of Joseph Frederick Wallet Desbarres (Shediac, N.B.: Privately printed, 1933), p. 42.)
The new Governor Macarmick arrived in Sydney on October 10, 1787. "William Macarmick," Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5 (University of Toronto/Université Laval, 1983).
"An exact survey of
the city’s of London,
Westminster ye borough of Southwark ...”
in
1746 by John Rocque
1787, October 20 - Executive Member, Cape
Breton Island -Removed For Absences ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
- Sparrow perhaps not in Sydney
1787, October 21 - Sydney: Had called on the
principal gentlemen of the island to assist him in Council; Sparrow's
attendance has always been uncertain, he has never been a resident he has
been informed, but he does not wish to declare the seat vacant until he
receives instructions ---(Macarmick
to Sydney) - Sparrow perhaps presently not in Sydney and requests a year's leave [so
that his council seat would not be declared vacant] to go to England
1787, October 27 - Samuel Sparrow Noted As Being Absent From The Old
and New Council (Samuel Sparrow)
- Sparrow perhaps not in Sydney
1787,
October 27 - At a Council .... Lieutenant governor was then pleased to
nominate ... Justices of the Peace ... For the County of Sydney ... Samuel
Sparrow .... For the County of Louisbourg ... Samuael Sparrow .... For the
County of Saint Peter .... Samuel Sparrow ... ----- (Samuel Sparrow) -
Sparrow was not in attendance and
perhaps not in Sydney
1787, November 27 [1787, November 24] - Halifax: Asserts his right to a
seat in the Council of Cape Breton, from which he had been removed on the
ground that he was not a resident - He Claims He Has House and Some Freehold
Estates - Claims he is creditor of near 5,000 Pounds of DesBarres ----- (Sparrow to Sydney)
- Sparrow in Halifax, Going to London
1787, December 17 - Letter of Sparrow to Mrs. Cannon re his Account (£88.12.0 + 4.8.7 = £93.0.7) ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Mary Cannon/J.F.W. DesBarres) - Sparrow in Halifax
1787 - 1788
1787,
October 18 - 1788, April 1: 1787 Supreme Court Session - Samuel
Sparrow vs. G. Hirnish (S.C. 1787) (1) Debt-Note (2) Praecipe
(3) Attachment (4) Affidavit (Samuel
Sparrow/G. Hirnish) - Sparrow "of Halifax, Merchant,"
in Halifax as of November 6, 1787
1787, October 30 - 1788, March 7: 1787 Supreme Court Session - Samuel
Sparrow vs. F. W. DesBarres (S.C. 1787) (1) Debt-note (2) Praecipe
(3) Attachment (4) Appearance (5) Affidavit ----- (Samuel
Sparrow/F. W. DesBarres) - DesBarres Absent Debtor as
of October 30, 1787; Mary Cannon Out of the Province as of March 4, 1788
1787, October 30 - 1788, July 2, 1788: 1787 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow v F. W. DesBarres (S.C. 1787) (1) Debt-Note (2) Praecipe (3) Attachment (4) Affidavit (£4041; £5000) -----(Samuel Sparrow/F. W. DesBarres) - DesBarres Absent Debtor as of October 30, 1787; Mary absent debtor July 2, 1788
1787 - 1790
1788
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1788 - J. F. W. DesBarres
defense expense account against Samuel Sparrow Cape Breton Island Mary
Cannon Cumberland law
suit (£ 18. 15. 8) ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)
1788, January 15, The Nova
Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - ALL Persons indebted to Samuel
Sparrow, Esqr, late of Halifax, John and Edward Kerby acting for him ... -----(Samuel Sparrow)
- Sparrow Has probably Left Halifax by January 15, 1788
1788, June,
The Town Of Sydney In June, 1788
-
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1788, June 17
- A Petition from
Colonel Abraham Cornelius Cuyler for Two Lots (Colonel Cuyler)
MAP,
PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1788, October
8-16, The Town Of Sydney in October, 1788 --- (William Dyott and Prince
William Henry, The Future King William IV)
- The town of Sydney consists of about fifty houses situated on the banks of
Spanish River, and surrounded to the very sides of the buildings by almost
impenetrable wood.
1788, October 28 -
London: His distressing situation owing to his not being able to obtain
payment for supplies to Cape Breton, ordered by DesBarres; gives details
(Upwards £4000) ----- (Samuel Sparrow to Evan
Nepean) - Sparrow in London as of October 28, 1788
1788,
October 28 - Plan of Sydney Harbour, and Plan of the Town of Sydney (N.S. 97
C.B. T 14 - Beaton Institute) -
MAP,
PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1788 - 1790
1788,
April 15 - 1790, October 18: 1788 Supreme Court Session - John Hockenhull vs. Samuel Sparrow (S.C. 1788) (1) Debt-Note (2) Praecipe
(3) Capias (4) Bail (5) Declaration (6) Warrant of Attorney (7) Rule (8)
Pien (9) Affidavit (10) Venire (11) Praecipe (12) Dubpoena (13) Verdict
- Concerns a disputed Promissory Note of Sparrow dated September 14, 1786----- (John Hockenhull/Samuel Sparrow)
- Sparrow in Halifax on September 14, 1786; Sparrow in
Halifax on April 16, 1788?; Sparrow not in Halifax on October 17, 1788?
1789
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1789, April
16 - London: Cannot get a settlement of his claims; has been arrested for
£400, on a bill endorsed by him for DesBarres. Would an interview with Pitt
help him? He could be of use in respect to the finances of Cape Breton -----
(Samual
Sparrow to Evan Nepean)
1789, December 2 - Sparrow Suit: On DesBarres Estates (Sterns/Samuel Sparrow)
1790
1790 - 1791
1791
1791, April 8 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case
Hearings (Atlantic Neptune; Estates: Minudie, Macan & Napan, Township of
Cumberland) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
1791, August 27 - Board of
Arbitration Award (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)
1791, September 7 - Arbitration Which Lasted Nearly 2 Years (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)
1792
1792 - A
Plan of the Two Branches of Spanish River, with the Town of Sydney, and
Settlements adjacent. By William Cox; Acting Surveyor General of Lands, Cape
Breton. [PANS 239-1792] - MAP,
PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1793
Circa 1793 - The Complaints through the House of Harrison,
Bainbridge &
Company ~ J.F.W. Desbarres
Circa 1793 - DesBarres Accuses Sparrow of
Slander (Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)
1793, January 7
- South Lambeth, England, Flour/Pork creditor claim listing against J. F. W. DesBarres ----- (Samuel Sparrow
to J. Wigglesworth) - Sparrow in South
Lambeth
1793, February 15 - The Complaints or Representations of
Samuel Sparrow, framed by, or transmitted through the House of Harrison &
Company merchants in London. ~ Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. Desbarres
1794
1794,
May 1 - Samuel Sparrow, asking E Napean to suggest a specific situation for which he may apply
----- (Samuel to Evan Nepean)
1795
1795, July 10 - Map of the Town of Sidney In Mr. Miller's of this 10.th of July 1795 - Kindly presented to his Grace the Duke of Portland, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, by his Grace's most obedient and humble Servant. James Miller Sidney July 10.th 1795 N.S. 164 - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1796
1797
1798
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1798, January -
Birth of Joseph Sparrow (Samuel Sparrow, Sarah Sparrow)
1798, October 9, The Royal Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser, Brig
Industry, Street, London
1798, October 23, The Royal
Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser, To Be Sold, THAT large and
Substantial Store and Wharf, opposite to Mr. HATTONS ... HALIFAX ....
-----(Samuel Sparrow) - Sparrow in
Halifax since at least October 22
1798,
December 1 -
Samuel Sparrow of Halifax - Property Deed, Sydney River, Lots 10, 11, and 12, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow,
of Halifax, to John Wilson, of Sydney)
- Note: "Samuel Sparrow of Halifax"
still residing in Halifax as of this date
1799
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----
-----
"This View of Sydney In The
Island of Cape Breton ...", 1799.
Painting by John Hames / National Archives of Canada / C-024939
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1799, July 7 - My Chief motive
for writing this, I am much disposed and fearful of treachery, however, I
trust In providence (Samuel Sparrow)
- Note: Samuel Sparrow now in
South Carolina
1799, July 7 - The Will of Samuel Sparrow - South Carolina
- I leave at my death all my property to my Wife Sarah Sparrow
(Samuel Sparrow) - Sparrow in South Carolina
1799 - 1804
Sparrow's Will: England and South Carolina In Maps and Plans - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1800
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1801
1801,
November 20, Sparrow
Invoice of 33.5.10 and £ 492.2.6--- Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
1801, November 28, Sparrow Invoice of £ 492.2.6 --- Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
1802
1802,
February 12, Sparrow Invoice of
33.5.10 --- Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
1802, February 12, Sparrow Invoice of 33.5.10 --- Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
1803
London, England,
St. Bride, Fleet Street
MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
1804
1806
1807
1810
1813
1814
1815 - 1818
1815, June 12 -
1817, August 19: J. Edward Acres Sydney,
Cape Breton Island probate certificate of registry for the estate of Samuel
Sparrow, Registered August 19, 1817 ----- (Samuel Sparrow/J. Edward Acres)
- Acres in Sydney as of August 19?
1815, June 14 - £500 Bond by John Edward Acres, James Crowdy, Bethel Wetton - Letters of
Administration to the Estate of Samuel Sparrow - To Produce Inventories by
January 11, 1816 and January 11, 1817 (Samuel Sparrow, John Edward
Acres, James Crowdy, and Bethel Wetton) - Acres in
Sydney as of June 14
1815, September 11 - £400 Bond by J. Edward Acres, Edward Kerby, William Rogers - Letters of Administration to the Estate of Samuel Sparrow ----- (John Edward Acres, Edward Kirby, William Rogers, Charles Morris) - Acres "of Halifax" in Halifax as of September 11
1817
1818
1819
1823
1823, January - "Halifax, Jan., 1823, Acres, Painter." - John Edward Acres - Acres in Sydney early 1815; In Halifax From about September, 1815, till 1816 or later; In Sydney about 1817; In Halifax sometime before 1823 until 1828
1826
1827
1827, July 3, Samuel William Little Acres, Son of John Edward Acres, Late of Kensington, Pawn Broker
1828
(2) APPENDIX TO THE
TRANSCRIBED DOCUMENTS
(3) SAMUEL SPARROW LINKS
Krause House Info-Research Solutions Research: Canada and United States Research Trips in Support of Sparrow Research (Another Site)
(4) J. F. W. DESBARRES LINKS/USEFUL DOCUMENTS
(5) SECONDARY SOURCES
(6) USEFUL LINKS - GENERAL
Photo No: 36.121; Collection: NS Museum of Cultural History Photographer: Gauvin & Gentzel; Date Taken: 1936; Description: Modern Copy, Original At Public Archives Of N.S. - "Former Residence of Dr. Thomas Beamish Akins, Historian, 285 Brunswick Street, Halifax, NS" - T.B. Akins’s house at 2151 Brunswick Street is Halifax’s oldest dwelling according to Elizabeth Pacey, Historic Halifax, 1988 - Is there a similarity to the original Jost House? See also: http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/builtheritage/exhibit.asp?ID=201&Nav=false . "Akins Cottage was built by shipwright Winkworth Norwood in the 1790s. Note the change in civic numbers---285 Brunswick Street in 1936 and 2151 Brunswick Street after re-numbering in the early 1960s."
(7) SPARROW - FURTHER RESEARCH