Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.

M42/9 Pages 1442-1444 Martin Sheppard
 
      No. 551} 31st October 1838} Report of Survey

Province of Lower Canada
    District of Gaspé		  
 
    On part of the goods saved from the wreck of late Barque Colborne.       To all to whom these presents shall come, or whom the same may in any wise concern.
    Be it known and made manifest, that on this thirty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, in obedience to the order and instruction of the Court of Special Session, assembled at Port Daniel in the County of Bonaventure in the District and Province aforesaid, on the twenty second of October instant, and at the instance and request of Alexander Mavor, testified by the petition of the said Alexander Mavor to the said Court to that effect, now at Port Daniel		  
  # in her late voyage from London in England to the port of Quebec and Montreal, both in this said Province,   aforesaid #, 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, register measure, now lying stranded and wrecked at or near Harrington Cove near Port Daniel aforesaid, loaded with a general cargo and whereof the late William Kent was master.
    We, the undersigned William Millar, carpenter, James McCraken, merchant and former ship master, Léger Lambert, ship owner and William McPherson, lumber		  
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^		 on the twenty fifth day of October, instant


in order to survey, examine and inspect the said vessel and the situation in which she then lay as also the damage she has sustained.		   merchant, being all at Port Daniel, went * in obedience to instructions and at the request aforesaid, went on board and alongside of the said barque or vessel called the Colborne, lying on the rocks and stranded at Harrington Cove near Port Daniel aforesaid ^ and then and there being, at the request aforesaid, found the said vessel lying on the rocks at Harrington Cove about two miles to the eastward of Port Daniel aforesaid, with the tide flowing in and out of the said vessel the same as on the outside and her hatches off and open.
    That the said vessel is scuttled, both at the side and on the deck and is now a complete wreck, without any chance of removing her from the situation in which she now lies.
    And from every view of the damages sustained and exposed of the situation in which the said vessel now lies fast imbedded between rocks from whence no prospect exist of removing her, joined to the advanced season of the year, we are unanimously and decidedly of opinion that the said vessel ought to be sold without further delay and strongly recommend that the said vessel be sold as she now lies within the least possible delay after this period, for the interest of all parties interested or concerned in the said vessel.
    To the truth of all which said several matters and things herein before alleged and declared, we are ready and willing to and will made oath if thereunto requested or required.
    In testimony thereof we have hereunto set out hands and fixed our respective seal at Port Daniel, in the County of Bonaventure, in the District of Gaspé and Province of Lower Canada (where no stamps are used), this said thirty first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, having signed two certificates of this tenor and date.		  
  Signed, sealed and delivered
   in the presence of		   William Millar
James McCraken		  
  H. O'Hara      
  } Witness es Léger Lambert  
  H.L. Hudson   William McPherson  
 
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