Claim No. 1536 (Shaw)
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Identifier
Claim Number
Original Claimant(s)
Administrator(s)/Recipient(s)
Place of Residence
District of Residence
Initial Valuation
Commission Valuation
Voucher Number
Voucher Value
Additional Payments
Total Payments
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Class 2 Cl. 145
Mary Shaw
Queenstown
Loss by Enemy
74.18.5
Estimated at sixty pounds
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No 1536
Mary Shaw
now Campbell
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William Kemble Esquire
Secretary to the Honble the
Board of Claims
York
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Claim £101.7.5
Allowed £40.7.6
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A correct Statement of losses sustained by Mary Shaw of Queenston by the American Army under the command of Genl McClure during the year 1813
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2 Hogs supposed to have weighed 150wt each |
@37/6 3.15 |
4.13.9 |
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3 Smaller Hogs supposed to be worth |
3 |
3.10.3 1/2 |
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*Damage done to a Stable |
X |
3.15.0 |
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*20 /2 Rods of Board Fence destroyed per Rod |
X |
19.4.4 1/2 |
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A Chest of joiners Tools plundered |
20. |
40.0.0 |
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A Saddle do. |
3 |
3.15.0 |
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Hfx. Cury. |
£74.18.5 |
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29.15 |
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Another Claim brot forward |
10.12.6 |
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Total on both |
£40.7.6 |
[margin note] * Withdrawn for the reason affixed in the accompanying Affidavit [/note]
Class 1 No 65
Mary Shaw
Queenstown
£26.9.0
Estimated at fifteen pounds
Claim under Class 2
No 145
A correct Statement of Losses Sustained By Mary Shaw of Queenston by his Majesty’s Troops Commanded by Colonel Murray in the month of December 1813
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2 Hogs Supposed to have weighed 150 lbs each |
@37/6 3.15 |
4.13.9 |
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1 Less do worth |
24/ |
1.4.0 |
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*1 Stable pulled down worth |
X |
3.15.0 |
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*14 Rods Rale fence destroyed |
X |
12.3.9 |
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*a Gate of 10 feet wide Do |
X |
1.17.6 |
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inadmissable Cash Stolen by 100th Regt |
X |
4.5.0 |
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Clothes Stolen by Same Supposed to by worth |
4. |
5.0.0 |
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1 Bbl Flour |
1.17.6 |
3.10.0 |
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Hfx Cury |
14.18. |
£26.9.0 |
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10.12.6 |
[margin note] * Withdrawn for the reason affixed in the accompanying Affidavit [/note]
Carried to another Claim
Mary Shaw
Witness
John Warren
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I Mary Shaw of the Township of Niagara do hereby Solemnly declare that I have actually Sustained the Damage in the accompanying Claim Set forth and that I have not received any remuneration whatever from the Individuals who Committed the damage Claim for or from any person or persons for them.
Mary Shaw
Witness
John Warren
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We William Dunbar & Ralph Graham of the Township of Niagara do hereby certify that we have carefully examined the accompanying Claim maid by Mary Shaw of the township of Niagara for damage Sustained by her from His Majesty’s troops commanded by Colonel Murray as in the said Claim set forth and we do further Certify from our own knowledge that the said Mary Shaw has actually Suffured the damage for which She Claims to be remunerated ant that in our estimation the Sum of £26.9.5 Halifax Currency is a just and reasonable Compensation for the Same and also that the several Claims therein put down are not over Charged
William Dunbar
Ralph Graham
Witness
John Books
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Affidavits in Support of the Claim of Mary Shaw now Mary Campbell of Queenston
1536
District of
Niagara
Mary Campbell, formerly Mary Shaw, wife of John Shaw Late of Queenston, deceased, maketh Oath and Saith that the Claim preferred by her to the Board in 1815 is a just and true account of losses sustained by her during the late War with the United States of America, except the charges for damage to Stable and Fences Rale, for which she does not now considered herself entitled to remuneration, having given back the land on which they stood to the Executors of the Estate of the Late Robert Hamilton, from whom they were originally purchased, and no payment made upon them. This deponent further saith that she has not received either directly or indirectly, compensation for any part of her said Losses.
Marey Campbell
Sworn before me at Queenston this 8th day of March 1824
Robt Grant J.P.
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District of
Niagara
Benjamin Thompson, Son of Archibald Thompson, late of Stamford in this said District deceased, Maketh Oath and Saith That in the Year 1813 Mary Shaw now Mary Campbell did deposit in his said father’s House, for Security, a Chest of Joiners and Carpenters Tools and a Man’s Saddle. That the said Chest of Tools and Saddle was in his said father’s house when he this deponent, went to the Head of the Lake on the 8th July 1814, but were gone when he returned home on the 27th of the same month. and that he verily believes they were taken away by the Enemy, as he frequently heard his deceased father and mother say so.
Benjamin Thompson
Sworn before me at Queenston this 9th day of March 1824
Robt Grant J.P.
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District of
Niagara
William Dunbar of Queenston in the said District, Joiner, Maketh Oath and Saith that he has examined the Claim of Mary Shaw now Mary Campbell for losses sustained by her during the late War, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief the same is just and true, after deducting them from the charges for damages to Stable and destruction of fences + rale, this deponent further saith that, to his own knowledge she owned a Chest of Joiners and Carpenter’s Tools which in his Estimation were worth Thirty Seven pounds ten Shillings Provincial Currency.
William Dunbar
Sworn before me at Queenston this 9th day of March 1824
Robt Grant J.P.
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