Claim No. 853 (Sporbeck)
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Class 1 20 No 59
Statement of Losses sustained by Margaret Sporeback 4 Mile Creek
Township of Niagara
Niagara
Estimated at one hundred & thirty pounds
Sufficient
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No 853
Mary Sparback
Claimed £157.0.0
Allowed £92.10.0
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A Statement of Losses sustained by the Widow Sporeback, of the 4 Mile Creek, Township of Niagara, during the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America.
Losses sustained by the British Troops & Indians whilst encamped at the Cross Roads.
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980 pannel of fence |
36.15.0 |
at 1/ pr panl |
£61.5.0 |
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12 Acres of Meadow |
27.0.0 |
60/ |
36.0.0 |
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5 Bushl of oats sowed |
30/ |
7.10.0 |
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3 “ Peas ditto |
12.10.0{ |
30/ |
4.10.0 |
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3 Acres of Indian Corn planted |
50/ |
7.10.0 |
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8 Bushl Potatoes ditto |
6.0.0 |
20/ |
8.0.0 |
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Flax from 1/2 Bush seed rotted fit to dress |
2.0.0 |
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1 Bushl Flax seed sowed |
1.5.0 |
2.0.0 |
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9 hogs, 18 Months old, killed by the Indians |
25/ each |
11.5.0 |
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Timber destroyed |
9.0.0 |
X |
12.10.0 |
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12 Cords of wood |
7/6 X |
4.10.0 |
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Alld |
£92.10.0 |
Hfx Cy |
157.0.0 |
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157 |
Amounting to the sum of one hundred and fifty seven pounds
Halifax Currency
Mary Sporbeck
Personally appeared before me Peter Ball, Esquire, one of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the District of Niagara, the Widow Sporeback, of the 4 Mile Creek, Township of Niagara, who maketh oath that the above property was destroyed and Taken away from off her farm by the British Troops and Indians, whilst encamped at the cross Roads, and further that value of the said property this Deponent declares to amount to one Hundred and fifty seven pounds, Provincial Currency, and for no part of which has he ever received any remuneration.
Mary Sporbeck
Sworn before me this 27th day of Sept 1815
P. Ball J.P.
We the Subscribers do hereby Certify, that we have examined and looked at the damage done to and on the Farm of the Widow Sporeback, lying on the four mile Creek, near the Cross Roads, in the Township of Niagara, Province of Upper Canada, by the Troops and Indians, whilst encamped at the Cross Roads, and on her farm, and find the value of the same as follows. Viz.
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980 Pannel of Fence |
@1/8 |
£61.5.0 |
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12 Acres of Meadow |
@60/ |
36.0.0 |
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5 Bushels Oats Sowed |
@30/ |
7.10.0 |
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3 “ Pease ditto |
@30/ |
4.10.0 |
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3 Acres of Indian Corn, planted |
@50/ |
7.10.0 |
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8 Bushels Potatoes ditto |
@20/ |
8.0.0 |
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Flax from 1/2 Bushel seed, rotted fit to dress |
2.0.0 |
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1 Bushel flax seed sowed |
2.0.0 |
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9 Hogs 18 Months old, Killed by the Indians |
25/ |
11.5.0 |
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Timber destroyed |
12.10.0 |
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12 Cords Wood |
@7/6 |
4.10.0 |
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Hx Currency |
£157.0.0 |
Amounting to the sum of one hundred and fifty seven pounds Halifax Currency, Niagara Township 11th March 1824
John Clement
Lewis Clement
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