SAMUEL SPARROW ~ 
18TH-CENTURY CAPE BRETON ISLAND 

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(1) SEE ALSO: APRIL 7, 1785 AND MARCH 15, 1786

(2) SEE ALSO: APRIL 7, 1785 AND MARCH 15, 1786

(3) SEE ALSO: APRIL 7, 1785 AND MARCH 15, 1786

[p. 1184]

29 March 1790
Gray's Inn Coffee House

Sundries Ship to Cumberland _  £115. - 1
D^o _______________________    841.17.9
        [?]

Sparrow asserted an oath that the above Sundries amounting to  £115. - 1 were for Desbarres own use in Cape Breton
Desbarres objected to the Lumber Amount and desired M^r Sparrow to produce vouchers for the Same and for the Sundries amt to £956.17.9
M^r Bainbridge said that it is a Confidence usually placed in Merchants [achiy] by Comⁿ to accept their Invoices as a Charge for the Goods Sent without calling for the Bills of particulars given in by the Tradesmen of [where] the Goods were [brought] and that for 25 years he has been in Trade never was asked for Such Bills of particulars
Desbarres desired Sparrow to produce the Policy of Insurance on 100 b^lle flour & 60 B^ll Pork p^r Schooner Sydney shipped 19 Nov^r 1785

[p. 1185]

Desbarres objected to Comⁿ on Sundry goods
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Sparrows M^rs Williams had lodged and boarded at his House at Halifax, [Lie]
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D. objected to the Cargo (p^r Swallow) £692.10.4 ship^d 17 July 1786 - bad Good & enormous Prices
Sparrow Said he had general Orders of Agency
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10 Nov 1786 p^r Schooner Sydney £296. 17. 6 Sold by Wilkinson to individuals at enormous Prices, Objected therefore to Comⁿ - Sparrow declared that he had charged no more than prime Cost & charges, and that Comⁿ was due. And that the residue of the Cargo had afterwards been Delivered to Desbarres.
Smuggled Spirits were ordered to go from the Isl^d with the vessel
Sparrow Says that the Goods were sold at Prices 20 to 40 pc^t lower than they would have sold and that he had done for benefitting Desbarres government
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Sparrow says he attached the Estates in N Scotia because part of the Plates & Charts were not delivered in order to make good the want of such Delivery
He valued the Impressions at M^r Johnson on £1700 that what he had received were incompleat Setts and had only 2 Setts bound
He delivered an Acc^t of Charts & Plates on his Oath
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[p. 1186]

10 p^rc^t Damage on Bills not to be allowed, no Law whatever authorising Such a Charge in Cape Breton
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Schooner Hope & Cargo £337. - .2 and Sloop Nancy £97.19.8 are fabrications
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produced Sparrow's Letter of the 10 Dec. 1784 and 20 June 1785 - also a Letter from Jn' Kavanau of 28 Ap^r 1785, who Sparrow called a sad fellow now in Joal for £16000

DesBarres Papers, Series 5, M23, F 1-5, Volume 6, Accounts, 1767-1794, March 29, 1790, pp. 1184-1186

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