Chapter 1857.

Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.

M42/9 Pages 1432-1433 Martin Sheppard

	No 547} 26th October 1838} Report of Survey. Province of Lower Canada. District of Gaspé.

On part of the goods saved from the late Barque Colborne.

    To all to whom these presents shall come. Be it known and made manifest, that the undersigned John LaBoutillier, John McDougald, Joseph Meagher and Jamew McCraken, merchants, 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, ~~testified by his petition to the said Court to this effect~~, 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, whereas the late William Kent was master, now lying stranded and wrecked near Port Daniel aforesaid, in her late voyage from London to the ports of Quebec and Montreal in this said Province, loaded with a general cargo, duly and carefully surveyed and examined; four bales of cloth, a quantity of sails, one hogshead of gin, one bale silk, one hogshead of wine, one pipe of high wine, one hogshead of olive oil and two casks of palm oil, landed and stored under lock in a store on the west 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 four bales of cloth and sails, one hogshead of gin, one bale of silk, one hogshead of wine, one pipe of high wine, one hogshead of olive oil and two casks of palm oil, 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 strongly recommend to be done as the only means of securing the interest of all parties interested or concerned therein.
    In testimony thereof we have hereunto set our hands at Port Daniel in the County, District and Province aforesaid (where no stamps are used) this twenty sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, having signed two certificates, all of this tenor and date.

Signed and Delivered in the presence of		James McCraken John McDougald
Peter Cullen		John LeBoutillier
} Witness	es	Joseph Meagher
William Day

Posted Nov. 1, 1998.

Updated Nov. 16, 2002.