Claim No. 1284 (McNabb)

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4 - No 1284

Claim

Isabella McNab

Claimed £50.0.0

Allowed £40.0.0

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Statement of property belonging to Isabella McNabb, widow of the late John McNabb, of the township of Grantham, which was destroyed by the Enemy, during the late war between Great Britain, and the United States of America, Viz,

1 Dwelling house, consisting of three rooms, Cellar, etc, etc, with Chimneys complete, and in a fit state to be inhabited, which was destroyed by being burnd by the Enemy, which the widow McNabb, Estimates at the sum of fifty pounds, Province Currency

£50

Allowed £40

Isabella McNabb

We the undersigned are perfectly aware of the above loss being sustained by the widow McNabb, and we consider the sum which she estimates the loss at, to be fair and reasonable.

Given under our hands at Grantham this 19^th day of September 1823

Daniel Cook

John Fletcher

From the Respectability of this Claimant (whom I have known for many years) I have no Doubt that the loss stated above was sustain’d

Robt Addison

Minr of Niagara

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Niagara District

Niagara Viz

Personally came before me James Muirhead One of His Majesty’s Justices for the District aforesaid, John Fletch of the Township of Grantham, farmer, who being duly sworn, deposeth that a Dwelling House the property of Mrs Isabella McNabb, Widow of the late John McNabb, Esquire, of Grantham, was burnt by the Enemy during the late War with the United States of America. That the House was twenty feet in width & thirty feet in length & was in a fit condition to be Inhabited, when Mrs. McNabb left it some time before

John Fletcher

Sworn before me at Niagara this 24 day of September 1823

J. Muirhead J.P.

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Niagara District

Niagara Viz.

Personally came before me James Muirhead One of His Majesty’s Justices for the District aforesaid, Theophilus Brundage of the Township of Grantham, Carpenter, who being duly sworn deposeth, that a House built & furnished according to the Statement of Mrs. Isabella McNabb of Grantham, could not then or now be so built & furnished for the sum of fifty pounds Province Currency

Therefore on Oath says the Charge for said loss is a moderate one

Theo Brundage

Carpenter

Sworn before me at Niagara the 24^th day of September 1823

J. Muirhead J.P.

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1284

Paid

Paid 7

Jas. B. McCaulay

Secretary Board Claims

York

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Isabella McNabb

1284

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Niagara District

To Wit

Personally appeared before me D. McDougal Esquire one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the said District, Isabella MacNabb, Widow of the late John MacNabb, who maketh oath & saith that her late Husband was dead before the assembling of the Board of Claims for Losses sustained during the late war with US of America; and that this Deponent was during the war Living in the Eastern District of this Province and that upon

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upon her return to this District in Feby or March 1815 She did not know by whom She could prove the Claim for losses of property destroyed untill it was too late to send in such claim to that Board

Isabella McNabb

Sworn before me at Niagara this 9^th day of Jany 1824
D. McDougal J.P.