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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

• Sydney Bibliography

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

Halifax Harbour, 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 M^r. 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

• 1775, August, Abstract of the Number of Families settled in Nova Scotia from a state of that Province taken in August, 1775 Halifax Contains 400 houses, has 200 Militia and about 1300 inhabitants

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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 M^r 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 M^r Sparrow Hands to manage, by the means of Which M^r 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 M^r. Sparrow has emerged.

   

1779

NOTE: PLEASE SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH

• 1779, January 19, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Just Imported, In the Ship's Adamant & St. Lawrence, By Samuel Sparrow -------- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1779, January 26, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Just Imported, In the Ship's Adamant & St. Lawrence, By Samuel Sparrow -------- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1779, February 23, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Just Imported, In the Ship's Adamant & St. Lawrence, By Samuel Sparrow -------- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1779, March 9, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle- Just Imported, In the Ship's Adamant & St. Lawrence, By Samuel Sparrow -------- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1779, March 23, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle- Just Imported in the Ship's Adamant & St. Lawrence -------- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1779, March 30, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle- Just Imported, In the Ship's Adamant & St. Lawrence, By Samuel Sparrow -------- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1779, April 15 - Property, Letter A, No 12, South Suburbs [sic: North Suburbs] Water Lot, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Oath dated September 1, 1779, Registered January 22, 1783 ----- (Samuel Sparrow power of attorney for William Randall) 
   

• 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

• 1780, c. End of January, Brig PENELOPE leaves England for Halifax, Captain Christian
   

• 1780, April 6, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle, April 11, 1780 - HALIFAX, April 11 ... Last Thursday arrived the Brig PENELOPE, Captain Christian, in 10 Weeks  from England ...
   

• 1780, April 11, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED: In The Brig PENELOPE, from London and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW -------(Sparrow)
   

• 1780, April 18, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED: In The Brig PENELOPE, from London and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, May 2, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED: In The Brig PENELOPE, from London and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ----------(Sparrow)
   

• 1780, May 16 - Property and Red Hospital [Corwallis Street], Letter A, No 12, North Suburbs on the Road or Water leading to the Careening Yard, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Registered January 22, 1783 ----- (Samuel Sparrow for William Randall to William Slater) 

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. ...

• 1780, May 16, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED: In The Brig PENELOPE, from London and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------ (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, May 23, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED: In The Brig PENELOPE, from London and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------ (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, May 30, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED from LONDON and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------ (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, June 6, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED from LONDON and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------ (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, June 13, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED from LONDON and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------ (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, July 11, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED from LONDON and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------ (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, July 18, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUT IMPORTED from LONDON and to be SOLD By S. SPARROW ------ (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, August 1, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Just IMPORTED, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, August 8, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Just IMPORTED, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, September 5, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Just IMPORTED, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, October 3, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Last Saturday arrived the Snow Mary Ann, Capt. Squire, in 64 Days from London
     

• 1780, November 14, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUST  IMPORTED from London, in the MARY ANN, Capt. Squire, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, November 21, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUST  IMPORTED from London, in the MARY ANN, Capt. Squire, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, December 12, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUST  IMPORTED from London, in the MARY ANN, Capt. Squire, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, December 19, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUST  IMPORTED from London, in the MARY ANN, Capt. Squire, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)
   

• 1780, December 26, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - JUST  IMPORTED from London, in the MARY ANN, Capt. Squire, By S. SPARROW --------- (Sparrow)

1781
  

• 1781, August 7, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Goods Imported on the Rialto and Maria ----- (S. Sparrow)

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]
    

• 1782, May 6 - Transfer of Property, 1/2 of Letter C, Ground No 4 (originally Moses Delesdernier to Andrew Cuenod) and all of Ground No 5, Foreman's Old Division, Halifax , Nova Scotia, Registered May 21, 1782 ----- (Andrew Cuenod to Samuel Sparrow)
    

• 1782, June 18, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Sale of Goods at Louis Poesche Store, Formerly Occupied by Sparrow ----- (Louis Poesche and Sparrow)
    

• 1782, July 9, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Piers and Hills Sell Poesche Goods on the Premises of Mr. Sparrow ----- (L. Poesche, Sparrow and Piers and Hills)
    

• 1782, November, Petition of Samuel Sparrow for a water lot, north suburbs Halifax, "opposite to the Red Hospital." [Corwallis Street] The lot was originally granted to William Randal, whose agent and Attorney is Sparrow, was recently granted to Robert Whiston, and is being petitioned for its return to Randal upon its improvement-----(William Randal/Samuel Sparrow)
    

• 1782, December 10, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Sale at Public Auction by Wm. Millet, Jr. all that remains of Sparrow Goods ----- (William Millet Jr. and S. Sparrow)

1783
   

• 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: Mary Cannon of Falmouth ... That ... in the Year of our Lord 1784, [she?] applyed to Samuel Sparrow of Halifax in the province aforesaid [Nova Scotia] Merchant [scratched out] to obtain from him an assortment of different Kinds of Merchandises proper for supplying the Estates of [scratched out] Lieutenant governor Desbarres, at Petticoudiac and Memramcook in the County of Westmoreland in the province of New Brunswick and for Some other Goods, for the use of the said Lieutenant governor DesBarres and his Family ... (Mary Cannon/J.F.W.DesBarres/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, November - Arrival of the Ship BLENHEIM/Spanish River/Point Edward Government Structures/David Mathews
   

• 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, December 13 - Extract of a letter dated Spanish-Town, Cape-Breton, Dec. 13, 1784 - (J.F.W. DesBarres/Anonymous -David Mathews? /[Blenheim]

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 - 1786 - DesBarres - Abstracts of Accounts - Description of Sydney Buildings - (J.F.W. DesBarres)
     

• 1784 - 1786 - DesBarres - List of Plans - Description of Sydney Building - (J.F.W. DesBarres)

1784 - 1787

• 1784, November 19 ~ 1787, October 13: The Declaration of the Account of Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres Esquire of his Receipts and Disbursements for His Majesty's Service as Lieutenant and Governor of the Island of Cape Breton from the 19th of November 1784, to the 13th of October 1787 ... [Internal Dates: January 7, 1793; November 7, 1793; January 16, 1794; December 9, 1807] -------Sparrow Flour, Pork, Boards, Shingles, Planks, Bricks and Provisions ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)

1784 - 1788

• 1784 - 1788 - DesBarres: Leaves England (October 16, 1784); Arrives Halifax (November 14, 1784); Arrives Cape Breton (December, 1784 -[Note: Arrives St. Peter's Bay - Isle Madame - December and Arrives Sydney, January 1785]; Leaves Cape Breton (October 13, 1785); Arrives Isle Jersey (December 7, 1787); Arrives Whitehall (April 16, 1788) ----- (J.F.W. DesBarres)

1784 - 1789

• ABSTRACT of Accounts rendered, for MONEY PAID, by Lieutenant Governor DesBarres. for His Majesty's Service in the
  Settlement  of the Island of CAPE BRETON. (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)

1784 - c. 1790

• 1784 - c. 1790 - Narrative of the Motives of Lieut Gov^r DesBarres Appointment to Cape Breton, and of the Circumstances of the Expenditures for the public Service there, with Remarks ... Arrives Halifax: November, 1784; Arrives Sydney, Spring 1785; Worried about a Famine That Winter: September, 1785; Pledges Plates to Sparrow [October, 1786]; Arrives Whitehead, April, 1788; Sends Accounts to Treasury, Spring, 1789; Enters Sum Of Money Desired, End of 1789; Looks Forward To A Trial, [March 1790] --- [Dated c. 1790] ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)

 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, February 1 - 1785, October 26: 1785 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow vs Lachlin Donnelly (S.C. 1785) (1) Debt ~ Goods Sold & Delivered (2) Praecipe (3) Capias (4) Declaration (5) Affidavit (6) Pleas ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Lachlin Donnelly) 
    

• 1785, April 19, 1785 - July 19, 1785: 1785 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow vs Alexander Leslie (S.C. 1785) (1) Trespass on the Cases-Capias ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Alexander Leslie)  
    

• 1785, April 7, 1785 ~ Samuel Sparrow Invoice (£114.17.9) - DesBarres Estates  (J.F.W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow/Mary Cannon/E. Barron)
   

• 1785, April 7 and 1786, March 15 - Mary Cannon's testimony and discussion of  her 1784 application to Sparrow for merchandises and resulting Invoices of  April 7, 1785 and March 15, 1786 [1790, May 7] - Sparrow Supplied the DesBarres Estates (Figures mentioned: £115-0-1, £750-14-0 [£757-14-0], £92-19-6, £851-4-0, £88-12-0,£4041-0-0 --- Mary Cannon,/Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
   

• 1785, April 7 and 1786, March 15 - Mary Cannon and Sparrow  Invoices of  April 7, 1785 (£ 664.14.6 + £115. 0 .1) and March 15, 1786 (£88.12.0)  [1790, May 7] --- Mary Cannon,/Samuel Sparrow
   

• 1785, April 28 - Mr Sparrow has propagated a story in Town [of Halifax] of having contracted for a large Quantity of lumber to be furnished by the New England States at Spanish River (Sydney) for the building of the Town --- Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
    

• 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] - Property, Block C, Sydney, Cape Breton Island ----- (W. John Wilkinson/Samuel Sparrow, Agent)
   

• 1785, June 7, 1785 ~ Samuel Sparrow Invoice (£738.12.2) - DesBarres Estates  (J.F.W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow/Mary Cannon/E. Barron)
   

• 1785, June 13 - 1785, November 30, List of vessels entered inwards in the Ports of Sydney and S^t. Peters Island of Cape Breton and Conway Harbour Isle Madame from the 5^th. of April to the 2^nd of November 1785 --- (Rundle/Ship BETSY)
    

• 1785, June 20 -1785, November 30, List of Vessels cleared outwards at the Ports of Sydney and S^t. Peters Island of Cape Breton and Conway Harbour Isle Madame from the 8^th. of June to the 10^th of November 1785 --- (Rundle/Ship BETSY)
   

• 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 - 1785, December 31-  Samuel Sparrow Charge for Flour and Pork (£432.2.6) ---(Samuel Sparrow/DesBarres)
   

• [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 14 [Endorsed 1785, October 15] - DesBarres Sends with John Wilkinson bills - £ 3429 .3 . 4- on the Treasury which Sparrow is spend on the purchase of provisions for Cape Breton; Sparrow to pay Wilson Master of the Schooner SDNEY who is to transport Flour and Pork; Mr. Wilkinson sends the Bills by John Jodrit, Master of the Schooner SWALLOW ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres to Samuel Sparrow )
    

• 1785, October 28, The Halifax Journal - Goods For Sale Advertisement ----- (S. Sparrow)
    

• 1785, October 28, The Halifax Journal - Goods For Sale Advertisement; For sale of goods from London at Sparrow's by Wilkinson ----- (Sparrow/Wilkinson)
   

• 1785, November 10 - Account and Receipt for Boards (£222.7.9) and Shingles (£84.5.7):  (£306.13.4 (£ 276.0.0) - John Wilkinson Received Payment (John Wilkinson/J.F.W. DesBarres)
     

• 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

• 1785, April 7, 1785 ~ 1786, December 31 - Monies paid, to Samuel Sparrow, from the 1^st of November 1773 to the 31^st of December 1794, for Bills drawn & Goods Shipt Upon Account of defraying Expenditures to be incurred in the preservation of my Estates in Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, and for carrying on the requisite Improvements & Settlements directed to be made &established thereupon (J.F.W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow/Mary Cannon/E. Barron)
   

• 1784, August 26, 1784 - 1787: List of Grants Passed in the Island of Cape Breton by Lt. Gov. DesBarres, 19th March 1793 - Property, Farm Lot, Cape Breton Island ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres to Samuel Sparrow)

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, January 25 - Sends list of bills drawn by DesBarres to be returned protested. - Enclosed: Account of bills unpaid ----- (Roberts to Nepean)
   

• 1786, March 15, ~ Samuel Sparrow Invoice (£89.13.11) - DesBarres Estates  (J.F.W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow/Mary Cannon/E. Barron)
   

• 1786, March 15 and 1785, April 7 - Mary Cannon's testimony and discussion of  her 1784 application to Sparrow for merchandises and resulting Invoices of  April 7, 1785 and March 15, 1786 [1790, May 7] - Sparrow Supplied the DesBarres Estates (Figures mentioned: £115-0-1, £750-14-0 [£757-14-0], £92-19-6, £851-4-0, £88-12-0,£4041-0-0 --- Mary Cannon,/Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
   

• 1786, March 15 and 1786, March 15 - Mary Cannon and Sparrow  Invoices of  April 7, 1785 (£ 664.14.6 + £115. 0 .1) and March 15, 1786 (£88.12.0)  [1790, May 7] --- Mary Cannon,/Samuel Sparrow
   

• 1786, April 18, Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - Halifax .... A  Return of Town Officers nominated by Grand Jury at the General Quarters Sessions of the Peace in March 1786 .... Surveyors of the High-ways for the Town of Halifax ... Samuel Sparrow ----- (Sparrow)
   

• 1786, May 1 - Letter of April 27 from Samuel Sparrow Regarding John Wilkinson (A Former Councilor)  to the Executive Council was Read (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 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 - Executive Member/Assistant Justice of the Superior Court, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1786, June 2 - Crown Land Grant to Henry Archer to Block 27, Lot A - GO TO HENRY ARCHER
    

• 1786, June 4 - Executive Member/Public Accounts Committee on June 3, 1786, examined Accounts for 19th November 1784 to the 24 March 1786, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
    

• 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 - Halifax Shipment of Supplies to J. F. W. DesBarres in Sydney, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 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 15 -Invoice for Provisions Shipped on the SWALLOW ( £493.2.5) and October 19, 1786 Payment (J.F.W.DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1786, July 20 - Town plan of Sydney, Cape Breton Island, showing named streets and numbered reservations. Reference table distinguishes the lots laid out by five different surveyors. Scale: 1 inch to about 260 feet. Compass indicator. Surveyed by George Rodgers, Assistant Surveyor for Cape Breton and Deputy Surveyor General of Woods, on the order of Lieutenant Governor Des Barres, 20 July 1786 (London, Public Record office, Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of the Treasury and Treasury Solicitor 1670-1920, MPD 1/180/2)  - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
   

• 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 September 18 - Articles (£36.15.5) Shipped on Schooner BETSY by Sparrow , and October 28, 1786 Payment ------ (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1786, October 19 -Payment on July 15, 1786 Invoice for Provisions Shipped on the SWALLOW ( £493.2.5)
     

• 1786, October 28 - J. F. W. DesBarres, Cape Breton Island, Made Over the Impressions and Plates of the Neptunia to Samuel Sparrow, Merchant of Halifax, and Desires of the Admiralty a 5000 Pounds Tender for the Said Neptunia ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)

... 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, November 10 - Articles (£337.17.0) Shipped on Schooner SYDNEY, J. Wilson Master, by Sparrow, [and July 24, 1787 Payment] (Samuel Sparrow/Wilkinson) - Sparrow in Sydney as of  November 10, 1786
   
• 1786, November 29 - [Sydney River], Lots 10, 11, 12, Cape Breton Island ----- (Crown to Samuel Sparrow) MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW
    
• 1786, December 19 - List of Bills drawn by DesBarres -Sparrow's Provisions:  £493 2 5 - (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1786, December 19 - "Report upon an additional Instruction, to the Gov. of N.S. revoking the former appointment of Councillors for C.B. and appointing others" --- (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow) 
   

• 1786, December 20 - List of Bills drawn by DesBarres -Sparrow's Building Supplies:  £36 15 5 - (Samuel Sparrow)
    

• 1786, December 22 - St. Jame's: Additional instruction revoking the power given to DesBarres of appointing to the Council, and nominating David Mathews, Thomas Moncrieff, William Smith, James Edward Boisseau, William Brown, Thomas Uncle and Samuel Sparrow to be councillors ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)

1786 - 1787

• [1786-1787] - Rough Sketch of the Offices of the Government of Cape Breton - Executive Council (Samuel Sparrow)
    

• [1786-1787] -Rough Sketch of the Offices of the Government of Cape Breton - Assistant Judge - (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 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?] Supreme Court Session - Jonathan Tremain vs. Joseph DesBarres ----- (Jonathan Tremain/Joseph DesBarres)
    

• 1787 - Mira, Cape Breton Island ----- (Crown to Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1787, April 3 - Neither Admiralty Office Nor DesBarres In Sydney Has Seen Sparrow, Merchant Of Halifax, But Admiralty Office Has No Intention of Purchasing DesBarres Pates and Impressions for 5,000 Pounds as Suggested by DesBarres ((Secretary, Admiralty Office/ Sparrow/J. F. DesBarres)
    

• 1787, July 16 - Grant of "Plotts of four Town Lotts in Block C." to be Given to Samuel Sparrow, Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Cuyler/John Wilkinson)
   

• 1787, July 17 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ------ (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1787, July 18 - Samuel Sparrow, Executive Member, Cape Breton Island, Observed That DesBarres Owes Creditors and Thus His Estates Should Be Secured To Each For Two Years, And Sold If Creditors Not Satisfied After that ----- (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 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, August 29 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island, Sworn In As Member of the Council ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1787, September 1 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1787, September 20 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ------(Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1787, September 20/27 - North Charlotte Street, Block C, Sydney, Cape Breton Island ----- (John Rundle to Samuel Sparrow and Rental Agreement)
   

• 1787, September 22 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1787, September 24 - Executive Member, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1787, September 24 - Property Lot 27, at the corner of North Charlotte Street and Amelia Street, Sydney, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow to Colin Frasier [Fraser])
    

• 1787, September 25 - Property Lot 27, at the corner of North Charlotte Street and Amelia Street, Cape Breton Island ----- (Samuel Sparrow to Colin Frasier [Fraser])
    

• 1787, September 26 - Property Block A, Lot 8, Esplanade?, Sydney, Cape Breton Island (granted May 16?, 1786); Property [forty?] 7. or 49, Sydney River, Cape Breton Island (granted August 21, 1786); and Block K, Lot 6, [Bladein?], South Charlotte Street, Sydney, Cape Breton Island (Thomas Garsoiss? to John Smith Bill of sale dated June 24, 1786) ----- (John Smith to Samuel Sparrow)
    

  • [Another Version] 1787, September 26 - Property Block A, Lot 8, Esplanade?, Sydney, Cape Breton Island (granted May 16?, 1786); Property [forty?] 7. or 49, Sydney River, Cape Breton Island (granted August 21, 1786); and Block K, Lot 6, [Bladein?], South Charlotte Street, Sydney, Cape Breton Island (Thomas Garsoiss? to John Smith Bill of sale dated June 24, 1786) ----- (John Smith to Samuel Sparrow)

• 1787, October 4 - Writing from Charlottetown, Henry W. Perry Attacks J.F.W. DesBarres (who he thinks at times is Insane) and Mentions DesBarres' Conveyance of his Plates to Samuel Sparrow, Merchant of Halifax  -"Stating the improper Proceedings of Lieu^t. Gov^r. Des Barres" (Henry W. Perry)
   

• 1787, October 12 - Samuel Sparrow Noted As Being Absent From The Old and New Council (Samuel Sparrow) - Sparrow perhaps not in Sydney

DESBARRES DEPARTED CAPE BRETON OCTOBER 13, 1787, THE SAME DAY THAT WILLIAM MACARMICK REPLACED HIM,  AND ARRIVED IN WHITEHALL, ENGLAND, APRIL 16, 1788

• 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 16, The Nova Scotia Gazette and Weekly Chronicle - The good Schooner SYDNEY... for particulars apply to Mr. Sparrow, or Captain Wilson on board -----(Samuel Sparrow)
    

• 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, October 30 - Sparrow Suit: On DesBarres Estates - Castle Frederick Farm (£4040)  (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres/Blowers)
   

• 1787, November 16 - Sparrow Suit: Attachment On DesBarres Estates -Cumberland: Minudie (the Elysian Fields), Maccan and Nappan (Samuel Sparrow)
      

• 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

• 1787, October 23 - 1790, April 26: The Estates called Minudie, Makan and Nappan, and Cumberland - Payment Suit of Samuel Sparrow re DesBarres Bills of Exchange Protested to the Amount of £4400, Damages of £5000 Claimed, and Attachment of DesBarres Estates (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)

1788 

NOTE: PLEASE SEE DISCUSSION AT 1774 REGARDING
NOVA SCOTIA NEWSPAPER RESEARCH

• 1788? - Cape Breton Island:  Creditor claim against J. F. W. DesBarres - Near Five thousand Pounds (near £5000) under protest for non payment  ----- (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 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 Supreme Court Session - John Jodrid vs. Joseph DesBarres (S.C. 1788) ----- (John Jodrid/Joseph DesBarres) 
   

• 1788, January 13, Letter from Mr. Monk (employed to defend sundry Suits instituted in Nova Scotia, against DesBarres, for Supplies(£4041) for the Public Service in Cape Breton), dated  Halifax 13th January, 1788 (App. C 516) viz. --- (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, January 22, 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)
   

• 1788, February 5, 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)
   

• 1788, February 12, 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)
   

• 1788, February 26, 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)
   

• 1788, March 4, 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)
   

• 1788, March 25, 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)
   

• 1788, Before May 17 - Complaint by Samuel Sparrow that his letter, dated prior to May 17, 1788,  sent to David Tait, Provost Marshall, Cape Breton Island, was opened by others (Samuel Sparrow to David Tait)
   

• 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)
   

• 1788, July 27 - Sparrow lien on Desbarres of 3 or £4000 and Desbarres Plates at Custom House (Samuel Sparrow and J.F.W. Debarres)
   

• 1788, October 3 - New Brunswick Petitcodiac Estate - Samuel Sparrow Cape Breton Island  creditor (£4040) against the Peticodiac estate of J. F. W. DesBarres ----- (J. F. W DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow) 

  
  Peticodiac area

   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, November 3 - London: Sends list of bills in his hands drawn on the Treasury and on the agent by DesBarres, but protested, amounting to £3,103 14s 10d for provisions, money, lumber and other supplies for Cape Breton, for which interest for three years is due [£493.2.5; £36.15.5; £337.17; and Multiple Bills Drawn Upon Roberts for Cash)  ----- (Samuel Sparrow to Evan Nepean)

1788 - 1790 

• c.1788-1790- Estates in Nova Scotia Seized by Mr Sparrow, for a pretended Debt of £4041 (Date?) [Reports of Capt. John Macdonald on DesBarres' estates of Minudie (the Elysian Fields), Maccan, Nappan and Tatamagouche. Included are lists of tenants and remarks on the state of the lands]
   

•  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?
   

• c.1788-1790 - After December 31, 1782 - Career of Des Barres [Biographical and genealogical notes on J.F.W. DesBarres - 1755-1763, 1763-1733, December, England]

1789  

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• 1789, January 22, John Rundle, Warrant of Survey for a Town & farm Lott assigned to John Rundle - Town Lot and Farm, Sydney River, Lots 9 and 10 (John Rundle)
   

• 1789, February 27, Letter from Mr. Monk (employed to defend sundry Suits instituted in Nova Scotia, against DesBarres, for Supplies for the Public Service in Cape Breton), dated  27th February, 1789 --- (J.F.W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1789, April 7- Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow vs. Timothy Newman (S.C. 1789) (1) Debt-Note (2) Praecipe (3) Capias (4) Affidavit ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Timothy Newman)
    

• 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, July 8 - London: Explains the circumstances in connection with a bill (£141.2.9) drawn in his favour by Fanning, Lieut-Governor of St. John Island. Has not yet been settled with for his claims in respect to DesBarres ----- (Samual Sparrow to Evan Nepean)
    

• 1789, August 4 - Admiralty Refuses to pay Samuel Sparrow for the DesBarres Plates He Has Offered up For Sale On May 12, 1789 (Secretary, Admiralty Office to Saml Sparrow)
   

• 1789, December 2 - Sparrow Suit: On DesBarres Estates (Sterns/Samuel Sparrow)

1790

• 1790, March 9 - Samuel Sparrow's Agent David Taitt Discusses the Proposed Blocking Up Along Sparrow's Developed Property By Laying it Not Into Lots (Samuel Sparrow/David Taitt)
   

• 1790, March 22 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings - Sparrow delivered in a Short Statement of his Case, with the Accounts  --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, March 29 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (£115. - 1 + £841.17.9 = £956.17.90; SWALLOW: £692.10.4; Schooner SYDNEY £296. 17. 6; Schooner HOPE £337. - .2; Sloop NANCY £97.19.8) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, March 31 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Schooner HOPE; Sloop NANCY) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, April 26 - Sparrow Suit: On DesBarres Estates (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres/Blowers)
     

• 1790, May 3 - DesBarres Describes In Detail Both Sparrow's Character and Sparrow's Disputed Accounts --- (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, May 7: 1785, April 7 and 1786, March 15 - Mary Cannon's testimony and discussion of  her 1784 application to Sparrow for merchandises and resulting Invoices of  April 7, 1785 and March 15, 1786 [1790, May 7] - Sparrow Supplied the DesBarres Estates (Figures mentioned: £115-0-1, £750-14-0 [£757-14-0], £92-19-6, £851-4-0, £88-12-0,£4041-0-0 --- Mary Cannon,/Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres
     

• 1790, May 8 - Mary Cannon testimony re Samuel Sparrow
   

• 1790, May 29 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Agent Wilkinson; Cumberland £861.4); Letter November 19, 1785; Cannon (£13.0.8); Letter December 17, 1787; Letter July 11, 1786; Atlantic Neptune (£5000); Schooner SWALLOW (£692); Schooner SYDNEY (£123.3.9) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, May 31 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Agent Wilkinson; Letter April 27, 1786; £493.2.5; 1787 Council; May 9, 1786 Council; Schooner HOPE; Sloop NANCY; Letter Junwe 26, 1786)  --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, June 7 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Schooner SWALLOW £692; Supplies at False £493.5.5) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
     

• 1790, October 31 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Mr Sparrow is Exceedingly Ill) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
    

•  1790, November 8 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (New Bonds Executed To Extend the Time to March 2, 1791; New Arbitrators Added) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, November 26 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (General Review of Sparrow's Estate Overcharges; Lumber £1412.17.7; SWALLOW £623. 5 .9; Estates £1897.14.10; Sparrows Risque £ 2526. 11. 3.; Atlantic Neptune £5000) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, December 13 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (McKerby: Sparrow's Books; Agent Wilkinson: £1578.1.6) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, December 16 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (McKerby: Sparrow's Books) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, December 17 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Agent Wilkinson: Lumber; December 1785;  £861.4.0; Boards and Shingles: £306.19.11) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, December 20 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Estates: Elysian Fields, Macan and Napan, Cumberland, Castle Frederick; Schooner HOPE) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, December 27 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Lumber; Atlantic Neptune £5000 and Examination of Plates and Charts)--- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1790, December 31 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Atlantic Neptune) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)

1790 - 1791

• 1790 October 4 - 1791, October 14: 1791 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow vs. John Stairs (S.C. 1791) (1) Debt-Note (2) Praecipe (3) Capias (4) Bail (5) Declaration (6) Rule (7) Note (8) Affidavits (9) Pleas ----- (Samuel Sparrow/John Stairs)
   

• 1790, October 12 - 1791, March: 1790 Supreme Court Session - Hockenhull admin of Heywood vs. Sparrow  -----(Hockenhull/Heywood/Sparrow) 

1791

• 1791, January 6 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Atlantic Neptune) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, March 10 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Wilkinson Lumber;  --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, March 11 - London: Asks for his influence to have his accounts settled ----- (Samual Sparrow to Evan Nepean)
   

• 1791, March 17 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Extension of the Time of the Arbitration Bond) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, March 21 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Extension of the Time of the Arbitration Bond) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
    

• 1791, March 28 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Extension of the Time of the Arbitration Bond) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, March 31 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Cumberland: £661.4; Lumber: £276; Etc.; Flour & Pork: £432.2.6; Schooner SWALLOW: £692.10.4; Schooner SYDNEY: £296.16.10;Etc,; Currency Owing; Sparrow Not In Attendance)  --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, April 4 - Sparrow/DesBarres England Court Case Hearings (Sparrow To Be Directed to Attend; Atlantic Neptune)   --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 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, April 10 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Writ Served: At Banking Office of Sir A Makworth & Co) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, April 11 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Apparently the meeting was never held) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, April 15 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Estates: Sparrow claims £2193.17.4)  --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, April 23 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Sparrow Accusation: Desbarres £493.2.5, was fictitious) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, April 26 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Atlantic Neptune:£5000) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, April 31 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Estates: £9500 Mortgage; Sparrow Attachment ) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, May 6 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (DesBarres: Set Aside Action and Plead)  --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, May 9 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Court of Common Pleas -Dismiss Sparrows Action) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, May 10 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Court of Common Pleas - Bonds Made A Rule) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, May 17 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Court of Common Pleas-Court Ordered Action Not To Go On) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, May 21 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Meeting called for May 23) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, May 23 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (£861.4, Wilkinson, New England Lumber) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, May 26 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Premium on DesBarres Bills; SWALLOW £692.10.4. plus £49. 12. 8) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

•  1791, May 30 - Sparrow/DesBarres English Court Case Hearing (Schooner SYDNEY: £248.14.4 & £129.7; Atlantic Neptune) --- (Samuel Sparrow /J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, August 27 - Board of Arbitration Award (Samuel Sparrow/J.F.W. DesBarres)
   

• 1791, September 1 - London: Sends results of the arbitration in the case between him (Sparrow) and DesBarres. Justifies his own course as one of the members of the Council of Cape Breton - Arbitration Award ----- (Samual Sparrow to Evan Nepean)
   

• 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
   

• 1792, February 13 - March 1, 1792 - Extracts from Minutes of Council regarding Confirmation of Land Grants, from 6th February 1792 to 1st March 1792  ----- (Rundle)
    

• 1792, February 24 - List of Persons Who are to Pay Their Fees for Grants of Land Assigned to them in Council, 24 February, 1792 ----- (Rundle)
    

• 1792, May 5, Letter from Messrs. Dorset, Johnson, and Co. to Charles Long, Esq. 5th May, 1792. (--- (J.F.W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow)
    

• 1792, September 6 - South Lambeth - Letter from Samuel Sparrow telling Evan Nepean [Under-Secretary] that he had given truthful information to the Commissioners for Auditing Accounts in respect of Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres [former governor of Cape Breton], but had heard nothing for a long time. (Samuel Sparrow/Evan Nepean - Sparrow in South Lambeth

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 - Lambeth, Surrey Land Tax (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1793 - John Rundle, Ship Master, Nova Scotia, Census Returns, Assessment and Poll Tax Records 1767-1838
   

• 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
    

• 1793, February 15, - London, England, Desbarres refers to the complaints of Samuel Sparrow, through Harrison & Co. Sparrow was a trader, who having sold articles to the government, seized DesBarres' property for payment and notes that an arbitration decided the claims of Mr. Sparrow to be unfounded and his own conduct in the administration of Cape Breton, to be conducive to his honor, and suggested a more complete enquiry --- [Atlantic Neptune Plates] ----- (J. F. W. DesBarres to Dundas)
   

• 1793, March 19 - Return of Persons on the Records of the Island esteemed by His Majesty's Council having equitable claim to Grants of Land; Cape Breton, Sydney, 19th March 1793 ------- (Rundle)
     

• 1793, October 11 - Letter from Samuel Sparrow of South Lambeth [Surrey] asking Evan Nepean [under-secretary] for confirmation that his appointment as 'one of His Majesty's Counsel for Cape Breton' [Nova Scotia] should exempt him from parochial and militia duties when in England ---- (Samuel Sparrow/Evan Nepean)  - Sparrow in South Lambeth

1794    

• 1794, May 1 - Samuel Sparrow, asking E Napean to suggest a specific situation for which he may apply ----- (Samuel to Evan Nepean)
   

• 1794 July 12, Samuel Sparrow to Evan Nepean for an interview with Pitt to discuss his suggestions for raising revenue ------ (Samuel Sparrow to Evan Nepean)

1795

• 1795 - Lambeth, Surrey Land Tax (Samuel Sparrow)
    

• 1795, May 20 - DesBarres Answer
   

• 1795, June 5 - Whitehall: Rough notes by Secretary Dundas on the accounts of DesBarres, whilst Lieut.-Governor of Cape Breton, and the proceedings taken with regard to them
   

• 1795, July 10 -  Map of the Town of Sidney In M^r. 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

• 1796 - Lambeth, Surrey Land Tax (Samuel Sparrow)
   

• 1796, May - Birth of Samuel Sparrow (Samuel Sparrow, Sarah Sparrow)

1797

• 1797, March - Birth of Sarah Sparrow (Samuel Sparrow, Sarah Sparrow)

1798

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• 1798, January - Birth of Joseph Sparrow (Samuel Sparrow, Sarah Sparrow)
   

• 1798, May 19 - Marriage of Samuel Sparrow and Sarah Pickett (Samuel Sparrow/Sarah Pickett/E.A. Stansbury)
   

• 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, October 30, 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)
   

• 1798, November 6, 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)
   

• 1798, November 13, 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)
   

• 1798, November 20, 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)
   

• 1798, November 27, 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)
   

• 1798, December 1 - Transfer of Indenture of  Mortgage - Entered February 14, 1799  [Sydney River, Lots 10, 11, and 12, Cape Breton Island] ----- (Samuel Sparrow to John Wilson, of Sydney)
   

• 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
   

• 1798, December 4, 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)
   

• 1798, December 11, 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)
   

• 1798, December 18, 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)
   

• 1798, December 25, 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)

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, October 1, The Royal Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser, The latest reports of the Fever ... Charleston is very sickly ...

1799 - 1804

• 1799, July 7 - 1804, March 8: The Entire Samuel Sparrow Will  (Samuel Sparrow/Elizabeth Stansbury/Sarah Sparrow/J. Edward Acres)
   

• Sparrow's Will: England and South Carolina In Maps and Plans - MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW

1800

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• 1800, October 14, The Royal Gazette and The Nova-Scotia Advertiser, State of Disease ...Charleston --- Accounts from thence say the yellow fever very mortal there, especially among the northerns ...

1801
 

• 1801, February, Sparrow, Samuel, formerly of Peckham, Surrey, afterwards of the merchant ship Industry, but late of Charleston, South Carolina. Administration with will to the sister, Elizabeth Stansbury ----Samuel Sparrow/Elizabeth Stansbury
   

• 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, J.F.W. DesBarres Westminister Residence
     

• 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 

• 1803, April 24, May 1, May 3, Sarah Sparrow and John Edward Acres Banns of Marriage
   

• 1803, May 15, Marriage: John Edward Acres and Sarah Sparrow, Saint Bride, Fleet St., London, England ----- (John Edward Acres/Sarah Sparrow) 
   

London, England, 
St. Bride, Fleet Street

MAP, PLAN, ELEVATION OR VIEW

• 1803, December 28 -Certification of the the will of Samuel Sparrow Deceased Many Years (Samuel Sparrow)

1804 

• 1804, January 7:  Administration with will of Samuel Sparrow Revoked and granted to the relict, Sarah, now wife of John Edward Acres  ----- (Samuel Sparrow/Sarah Sparrow/John Edward Acres/Elizabeth Stansbury)
   

• 1804, February 11, Birth of Ann Sarah Acres, daughter of John and Sarah Acres

• 1804, February 23: Elucidation of that part of my Case, which relates to the appointment of Lieutenant Governor, &c. which His Majesty was graciously pleased to confer on me as the reward of Service (J.F.W. DesBarres/Samuel Sparrow) 
   

• 1804, March 8: Administration of the will of Samuel Sparrow Revoked on the death of Sarah Acres and granted to her husband, John Edward Acres (Samuel Sparrow/Sarah Sparrow/John Edward Acres/Elizabeth Stansbury)

1806

• 1806, February 9:  Lambeth, Surrey, Baptism of the various children - born 1796, 1797, 1798 - of Samuel and Sara Sparrow (Samuel Sparrow, Sarah Sparrow, Joseph Sparrow)

1807

• 1807, June 28, Birth of John Little and Sarah Little Acres, twin son and daughter  of John and Sarah Acres

1810

• 1810, April 11, John Edward Acres, No. 6, High-Street, Kensington,  Silversmith - Break In (John Edward Acres/Thomas Pickett)

1813

• 1813, August 8, Birth of John and Samuel William Acres, twin sons of John and Sarah Acres

1814

• 1814, August 30-1814, August 31, Kensington, Memorial of John Edward Acres to the Duke of Kent for passage to America in a transport (John Edward Acres)

1815 - 1818

•  1815, March 6 - 1818, August 8: Petition to Swayne, 1815 - Petition on behalf of Samuel Sparrow on H.M. Council in the first settlement in Cape Breton, who was entitled to certain grants under Gov. DesBarres. John Edward Acres , Grantee, asks for six lot in block C, purchased by Sparrow from J. Rundel. [John Rundal] Warrant to Survey: Lots 31 & 32, two acres each, near the Town of Sydney ----- (J. Rundel to Samuel Sparrow; John Edward Acres)
   

• 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  

• 1817 - Property Cape Breton Island ----- (John Smith to J. Edward Acres)
   

• 1817, August 19 Recording of J. Edward Acres Sydney, Cape Breton Island probate certificate registration for the estate of Samuel Sparrow, ----- (Samuel Sparrow/J. Edward Acres)
   

• 1817, September 26: Lay out unto John Edwe Acres two lots of land not Lettered or granted or accorded near the Town of Sydney being Lots [?] 31 & 32 to contain 2 Acres each (John Edward Acres)

1818

• 1818 - January 3 - J.E. Acres Art Teacher Halifax (J.E.Acres)  

1819

• 1819 - Petition to Ainslie: Petitioner asks a grant of lot 6, Block C, Sydney, which was sold by order of the Court of Chancery to pay the costs of the suit of Acres, vs. Wilson. Acres held the property by a lease. Report of Crawley to Crowdy: Lot 6, Block C, Sydney. Plan (John Edward Acres/[John] Wilson/James Crowdy) 

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

• 1826, October - Bust of Young Man, (painting) - "Painted by I. Acuer (sic), Oct. 1826, Halifax, N. S." signed  [John Edward Acres]

1827

• 1827, July 3, Samuel William Little Acres, Son of John Edward Acres, Late of Kensington, Pawn Broker

1828

• 1828, September 13 - Acadian Recorder Saturday - Mr. J. E. Acres - Inquest - Body

• 1945, February 5 -"The First Settlers of Halifax"

(2) APPENDIX TO THE 
TRANSCRIBED DOCUMENTS

• Chronology of Sparow Properties Granted, Bought and Sold
    

• Chronololgy of the Life of Samuel Sparrow 
    

• Names and Places Mentioned in the Transcribed Sparrow Documents 
    

• History of Samuel Sparrow's Debt with J. F. W. DesBarres
    

• Legal Terms

(3) SAMUEL SPARROW LINKS

• Jost House: Heritage Character Statement  
    

• 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

• The Papers of J.F.W. DesBarres 
    

• 1784-1785 (Blenheim)
    

• 1784-1785 (Blenheim)
    

• 1784-1785 (DesBarres)
    

• 1784-Prior to 1794 (DesBarres)
     

• 1785, February 18 (Blenheim)
     

• 1785, July 19 - Provisions (DesBarres)

(5) SECONDARY SOURCES

• J.F.W DesBarres
   

• J. E. Acres
   

• Possible Sydney Sparrow

(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

• Samuel Sparrow - Further Research

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