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(See Sarah Sparrow)

[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]

[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]

Sparrow's 1790 attorney

DesBarres bill held on Buston & Tyson

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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 ].

The Mira River (to the French known as the Miré), is located 14 miles south of Sydney

Sydney River (originally Spanish River) is located just west of Sydney

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. 

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).

"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 ]

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[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.]

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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.

[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]

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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.

See Halifax

The Halifax careening yard was established in 1758

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

See Halifax

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.

"Another hospital, referred  to as the Red Hospital, was advertised for sale later in a December issue of the Gazette; it was described as a large house leading to the Careening Yard. The Red Hospital was located very close to the water's edge, as described in a petition ²²⁰ from Samuel Sparrow, in which he asked for a water lot "opposite to the Red Hospital." ... the Red Hospital dated from at least 1766, for in July of that year, Francis Elliot was granted a license to occupy the beach between the Red Hospital and Mr William Fury's lot to the north of Barnard Wharf. ²²¹ Also, the Gazette of 24 July 1769 advertised "a [James Doble] house for sale situated on the beach near the red hospital."

See: Allan Everett Marble, Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799 , p. 133.

DOBLE, JAMES-LAND AGENT?-ADVERTISER Description: FOR SALE, A HOUSE "VERY CONVENIENT FOR A TAVERN OR SHOP, WELL SUPPLYED WITH GOOD WATER; ALSO A GOOD HOUSE AND STORE, SITUATE ON THE BEACH NEAR THE RED HOSPITAL, WITH A GARDEN AND A GRASS FIELD; A WHARF VERY CONVENIENT FOR LANDING AND SHIPPING GOODS." LOCATION, CORNER HOUSE NEAR SOLDIER'S BARRACK, AND ON THE BEACH NEAR RED HOSPITAL. DOBLE SEEKS TO SETTLE HIS ACCOUNTS BECAUSE HE INTENDS TO LEAVE THE PROVINCE. - 04 July 1769 See ATLANTIC CANADA NEWSPAPER SURVEY - http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/rjpa-acns-eng.jsp - Atlantic Canada Newspaper Survey

[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
Hill, now Cornwallis Street, called the red and green hospitals. They were
there in 1785, one stood on the site of the north country or Keating's market, the other on the property now owned by the heirs of the late H. H. Cogswell. " These hospitals were named after the colour painted and were probably used for naval men or sick seamen. Keating's market was at the foot of the hill on the north side of this cross street, which was called Hawe's Hill, after a trader who kept a store on the Beach or Water Street, just opposite the hill. The location of this hospital is referred to in the following advertisement in a Nova Scotia Chronicle of 1769, "For sale-a good house and store situate on the beach near the red hospital."

This old store is probably the one owned by Mr. Hawe and was occupied
by the family as late as 1820, when Cornwallis Street (Hawe's Hill) was the
northern boundary of the town. The business was then carried on by Mrs. Hawe, an old lady who was noted for her only daughter, a very beautiful girl who was said to have been the belle of the town. On the opposite corner at the foot of the hill was an old town pump called Hawe's pump.

In 1880 are records of two houses still to be seen on this old street, one at
the foot of the hill on the north side (the red hospital) and the other east of
Mr. McQueen's confectionery, Brunswick Street. This may have been the
green hospital, which was ''further up the hill" ...

[Norman H. Gosse, "Water, Salt, and Sugar," in The Nova Scotia Medical Bulletin, 1938 Vol. 17(4), pp. 235-236]

South Suburbs

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Master of the Schooner Swallow

See Crown - British

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Of Halifax (1785); Merchant; 3rd party Sparrow held 2nd party Thomas Maxwell bill  of exchange drawn in favour of  defaulted 1st party Alexander Leslie
[Possibly the Loyalist, Alexander Leslie, Sr. who arrived in Halifax in 1784  on the Transport Clinton? - "Loyalist, "an Inhabitant and Citizen of New York", which he abandoned before the evacuation and thereby sacrificed a great proportion of his property ..."-  http://gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/landpapers/archives.asp?ID=356&Doc=memorial   ]

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3rd party Sparrow held 2nd party Thomas Maxwell bill  of exchange drawn in favour of  defaulted Ist party Alexander Leslie 

"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. " http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/strype/TransformServlet?page=book1_219

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Part of Surrey - Lambeth, Camberwell and Clapham

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cross/cross21.htm - 1820 and
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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 ...

St Peter's Bay

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This plan shows land in Peckham owned by Charles Shard in 1830. His land is shown coloured green.
http://www.ideal-homes.org.uk/
southwark/main/images-peckham.htm

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

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DesBarres bill held on Spiller

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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.

Part of Surrey - Lambeth, Camberwell and Clapham

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See British-History's Map - # 24 - St. John Wapping

See Map St. John's 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.

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