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	COLONIAL CORRESPONDENCE

Account of the Number of Rations to be paid for by Lieutenant-Governor DesBarres, for the like number stopt[sp?]
and to be stopt [sp?] out of the Pay of Workmen employed on the Island of Cape Breton, Viz

Transcribed by Janice Fralic-Brown

[Sydney, 15^th March 1786]

Name	From	To	Amount of Rations
Roland	19^th Nov 1784	24^th March 86	490
Ashfield	19^th Nov 84	31^st Aug. 85	285
Archer	19 Nov 84	28^th Feb. 85	101
Monument	Ditto	ditto	101
Tho^s Skelton	Ditto	March 1786	490
William Smith	Ditto	Ditto	490
John Wolfinton	Ditto	10^th July 1785	233
James Maddox	Ditto	24^th March 86	490
Richard Wright	Ditto	(uncertain about)	300
Alexander King	13^th Aug. 85	24^th March 1786	223
Dennis Lawler	Ditto	Ditto	223
Hugh Watts	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 1786	490
Stephen Molineux	Ditto	Ditto	490
Joseph Roddram	Ditto	Ditto	490
Thomas Garnis	Ditto	Ditto	490
James Kennedy, Sen. to Garnis	1^st Jan [86]	24^th March 1786	83
Thomas Coleman	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
John Grantmeyer	Ditto	Ditto	490
Enoch Morris	27^th Aug. 85	24^th March 86	209
Martin Bowers	31^st Dec. 85	24^th March 86	83
John Sloan	1^st July 85	24^th March 86	267
Edward Pate	1^st Oct 85	Ditto	175
James Holt	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
James Chambers	31^st Dec. 85	24^th March 86	83
John Eagan	1^st Sept. 85	Ditto	205
Andrew Brazeel	30^th July [85]	Ditto	237
Noah Morris	Ditto	Ditto	237
Alex^r Mathison	Ditto	Ditto	237
John Sunderland	Ditto	Ditto	237
Donald Watson	1^st July 85	Ditto	267
Samuel Smith	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
Edward Hickey	Ditto	Ditto	490
Ambrose Boole	Ditto	Ditto	490
George Finn	Ditto	Ditto	490
Robert Graham	Ditto	Ditto	490
Francis Owens	1^st July 85	Ditto	267
John Shanahan	Ditto	Ditto	267
Thomas Lloyd			Paid nothing
Thomas Pitts	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
Thomas Lewinton	Ditto	Ditto	490
John Edie	31^st Dec. 85	Ditto	83
Andrew Mowat	30^th Sept. 85	Ditto	175
William Brown	1^st July 85	Ditto	267
Daniel Murphy	Ditto	Ditto	267
Henderson Reed	30^th July [85]	Ditto	237
Donald McGilviray	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
William Grigg	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
Arch. Forrest	30^th July 85	24^th March 86	237
William Hope	30^th July 85	Ditto	237
Tho^s Stevens, Sen.	19^th Nov. 84	Ditto	490
Tho^s Stevens, Jun.	Ditto	Ditto	490
Thomas Miller	30^th July 85	Ditto	237
James Fenton	Ditto	Ditto	237
Charles Kitson	19^th Nov. 84	Ditto	490
William Wood	Ditto	Ditto	490
Earl Boyd	13^th Aug. 85	Ditto	223
George Shepard	19^th Feb. [86]	24^th March 86	33
John Torrance	Ditto	Ditto	33
John Paterson	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
John Gardner	1^st July 85	Ditto	267
James Ray	Ditto	Ditto	267
John Moorhead	Ditto	Ditto	267
Mathew Joice	13^th Aug [85]	Ditto	223
John Hammilton	13^th Aug. [85]	Ditto	223
John Holland	Unascertained	Unascertained	Suppose 120
George Cope	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
Charles Cope	Ditto	Ditto	490
W. Davidson	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
J. Roy	Ditto	Ditto	267
Muckle John	Ditto	Ditto	267
Magach	Unascertained	Unascertained	Suppose 100
Reach	13^th Aug. 85	24^th March 86	223
D. Grant	1^st july 85	Ditto	267
Crookshanks	Ditto	Ditto	267
Mills	Ditto	Ditto	267
Jack	Ditto	Ditto	267
Clarke	30^th [July 85]	Ditto	237
Angus	13^th Aug [85]	Ditto	223
Caneley	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
Mestine	13^th Aug [85]	Ditto	223
Menzies	Ditto	Ditto	223
Willison	1^st July [85]	24^th March 86	267
Hutchinson	Ditto	Ditto	267
McKay	13^th Aug. 85	Ditto	223
S. Lord	Ditto	Ditto	223
S. Colethorp	Ditto	Ditto	223
Thompson	Ditto	Ditto	223
Ranifew	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
Woodruffe	10^th Sept. [85]	Ditto	195
H. Roberts	30^th July [85]	Ditto	237
Kelly	Ditto	Ditto	237
Bartlett	Ditto	Ditto	237
Hacket	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
Moore	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
K. McKenzie	30^th [July 85]	Ditto	237
M. O’Brien	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
J. Richards	Ditto	Ditto	267
B. Redge	19^th Nov. 84	Ditto	490
Sutherland			Charged before
McGregor	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
Charles Grant	Ditto	Ditto	267
McNeil	13^th Aug. 85	March 24^th 86	223
Peter Shee	1^st July 85	Ditto	267
Gregory Grant	1^st Oct. 85	Ditto	174
G. Petree	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
M. Behr	19^th Nov. 84	24^th March 86	490
D. Chuck	Ditto	Ditto	490
John Murphy	Unascertained	Unascertained	140
Jer. Murphy	Dec. 31^st 85	24^th March 1786	83
Tho^s Davis	30^th July 85	Ditto	237
Restini	Ditto	Ditto	237
Leonard	1^st [July 85]	Ditto	267
Keaser	Ditto	Ditto	267
Welthausen	19^th Nov. [84]	Ditto	490
Ray	1^st July [85]	Ditto	267
Leary	1^st Nov. [85]	Ditto	143
Kallahan	Ditto	Ditto	143
Sullivan	Ditto	Ditto	143
Haly	Ditto	Ditto	143
Monday	Ditto	1^st January [86]	61
Davy	Ditto	9^th March 86	98
Fitzgerald	Ditto	24^th [March 86]	143
Parsons	Ditto	Ditto	143
Holt	Ditto	Ditto	143
3 Frenchmen	1^st Sept. 85	24^th March 86	619
2 ditto	18^th Feb. [86]	Ditto	68
Allcock	30^th July [85]	Ditto	237
Casey	1^st Nov. [85]	Ditto	143
Peachy	1^st. Sept [85]	Ditto	205
Holden	1^st Nov. [85]	Ditto	143
Sheffield	1^st Jan. [86]	Ditto	83
Piercy	Ditto	Ditto	83
Cox	Ditto	Ditto	83
A. Gray	Ditto	Ditto	83
Neil	Ditto	Ditto	83
Buchannan	ditto	Ditto	83
Marsland	30^th July [85]	Ditto	237
7 Negroes	30^th July [85]	Ditto	2329

Governor’s family very large.

All the officers of Government, Civil and Military, more or less the Quantity, I shall get ascertained.

Total: 39, 051

NB: I am sure a number of Persons are omitted which have drawn provisions without a just claim, which also I shall strive to put right.

Henry W. Perry

Account of Money to be paid by Lieutenant Governor DesBarres and Others
for whom he is accountable, being for Provisions expended at Cape Breton

39, 051 – Rations to sundry Persons as per acct ann. at 2 ½ }406. 15 7 ½

8200 Rations for the Lt. Gov.’s Family being 20 Rations

per Diem from the 7^th Feb. 1785 to the 24^th March 1786 –

410 days @6^o p. rat. } 205.__.___.

520 Rations to Mr. Gibbons Servants

@6^o per Ration 13. 0 0

253 1/3 Rations in fresh beef

@6^o per Ration or 380 lbs of Beef 6. 6. 8

Amount of Mr. Gibbons consumption }24.10.8

730 Rations Mr. Taitt has discounted with the

Governor (at least) }18. 5. 0

2000 to the Staff officers, over and above their

regular allow^e }50. 0. 0

50962 1/3 Rations at least }704. 11. 3 ½

Transcriber’s notes: Order and spelling of names are as they are found in the document. Many of the known Cape Breton Loyalist names are on the list, plus many more. It is interesting that the "Frenchmen" and the "Negroes" are not named. Are these black workmen free or "servants"? There also appear to be some Mi’kmaw names on this list, the Copes, for instance.

Figures given are in pounds, shillings and pence, in that order.

Source: Colonial Correspondence, Cape Breton: CO 217, V. 103, pp. 78-83

Contributed by Janice Fralic-Brown

Page written 18 March 1999

COLONIAL CORRESPONDENCE

COLONIAL

CORRESPONDENCE

Account of the Number of Rations to be paid for by Lieutenant-Governor DesBarres, for the like number stopt[sp?] and to be stopt [sp?] out of the Pay of Workmen employed on the Island of Cape Breton, Viz

Transcribed by Janice Fralic-Brown

COLONIAL

CORRESPONDENCE

Account of the Number of Rations to be paid for by Lieutenant-Governor DesBarres, for the like number stopt[sp?]
and to be stopt [sp?] out of the Pay of Workmen employed on the Island of Cape Breton, Viz