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Sparrows Invoice For Supplying Flour and Pork

Nov 19, 1785

[Shipped on the Schooner Sydney]

[f. 78]

[q] S. SPARROW, for 100 Barrels of Flour and 60 Barrels of Pork, 432£. 2s. 6d.

SURCHARGED: " No more having been paid than 398£ 16s. 10d. for 33 s :0     "100 Barrels of Flour and 60 Barrels of Pork.

... VOUCHERS ... [q]  A. VIII. 18* ...

* Vide Invoice, viz,

"To 100 Barrels Flour ..............................33s ....................  .165  0    0
60 De. ---            Pork................................77 s 6d. ............... 232 10   0
Truckage 2d. per Barrel. 160 Barrels ...............................  ......1   6   8
        Charges:
Commission, 5 per cent .................................  19  18  10
Insurance, 2 1/2 per cent ..............................   11   4    0
1/2 per Ct: Commission on 430£. Insured  ....   2   3    0......... 33   5  10

   E Excerpted, Halifax, 19 Nov. 1785,                                  £ .432 2  6
                                        Sam Sparrow"                                                   

[f. 79]

... THIS surcharge is an evident Mistake. The Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts having only considered the mere Cost of the Provisions. Vide: Note Page proceeding this.

[f. 83]

Possible Sparrow Flour and Pork order?:

"Mr. Sweet was sent to Halifax in 1785 to procure Provisions for the Settlers and returned to the Island with a Cargo of Flour and Pork, and he received the Sum charged in this Article for his Expences."

• 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 -Pages 78-79, 83

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           Accounts of Money paid by Lieutenant Governor Desbarres for His Majestys Service in the Settlement of the Island of Cape Breton between the 19^th November 1784 and the 13^th of October 1787 agreeably to original Accounts and vouchers produced to and examined by His Majestys Council for said Island 

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          Account of Money paid by His Excellency Governor Desbarres for His Majestys Service in the Settlement of the Island of Cape Breton between the 1^st of October and 31^st of December 1785 inclusive as per vouchers ...

[Check mark] Samuel Sparrow for 100 Barrels of Flour 
and 60 Barrels of Pork - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [check mark]   432 .. 2 .. 6 ...

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          Account of Money paid by Lieutenant governor Desbarres for His Majesty's Service in the Settlement of the island of Cape Breton and its Dependencies between the 11^th. July 1786 and the 24^th December following ...

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• Source: London, Public Record Office, Audit Office 3, Volume 142, pp. 1 - 17, November 14, 1791

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