Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
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No. 552} 1st November 1838} Report of Survey Province of Lower Canada District of Gaspé |
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| On part of the goods saved from the wreck of the late Barque Colborne. |
To all to whom these presents shall
come. Be it known and made manifest that we,
the undersigned John Le Boutillier, Joseph
Meagher, merchants and William Macdonald,
land surveyor, have this day, in obedience to
the order of the Court of Special Session,
assembled at Port Daniel in the County of
Bonaventure in the District and Province
aforesaid, and at the instance and request of
Alexander Mavor, second mate and chief
surviving officer of the barque or vessel
called the Colborne, of London, of the
burthen of three hundred and thirty tons or
thereabouts, whereof the late William Kent
was master, now lying stranded and wrecked
near Port Daniel aforesaid, in her late
voyage from London, to the port of Quebec and
Montreal in this said Province, loaded with a
general cargo, duly and carefully examined
five pieces of gin, one ullage cask of gin,
two coils and one small coil of rope, one box
of sundry cottons, one lot of blacking,
twenty four jars of linseed oil, eleven
barrels of blacking, one tierce of tallow and
one cask of manufactured furs, landed and
stored under lock in a store on the east side
of Port Daniel River beach and saved from the
wreck of the said barque or vessel called the
Colborne. We therefore do hereby certify and declare that on such survey, we have carefully examined the said five pieces of gin, one ullage cask of gin, two coils and one small coil of rope, one box of sundry cottons, one lot of blacking, twenty four jars of linseed oil, eleven barrels of blacking, one tierce of tallow and one cask of manufactured furs so saved as aforesaid and find the same so much damaged and in a perishable state as to require to be sold without further delay which we recommend to be done as the only means of securing the interests of all parties interested or concerned therein. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands at Port Daniel in the County, District and Province aforesaid (where no stamps are used) this first day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, having signed two certificates all of the said tenor and date. |
| Signed and delivered in the presence of |
John Le Boutillier Joseph Meagher |
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| H. O'Hara | William Macdonald | |||
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| Peter Cullen | ||||
| In faith and testimony and further
corroboration of the preceding written
certificate of survey, I, Martin Sheppard,
Notary Public by Royal authority, duly
admitted and sworn for the Province of Lower
Canada, being at present at Port Daniel in
the said Province, do hereby certify, declare
and attest unto all whom it may concern, that
the said preceding written certificate of
survey and the premises therein contained
were thus done and passed at my office in
Port Daniel aforesaid, on the day and in the
month and year therein first above and lastly
written, and signed, sealed and delivered by
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| G.R. Bossé©1998. | Posted Nov. 1, 1998. | Updated Nov. 17, 2002. |