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Part of Hall family fonds
Lease of farm by Jacob, Joseph and John Hall to Niram Norton for three years, notarized by Jonathan Abraham Gray and Thomas Barron. The farm was located on lot 8 in Hinchinbrook. Also includes a renewal of the lease up until 10 March 1810, dated 22 July 1808.
McTavish McGillivray and Company agreement
Part of McTavish, Frobisher & Company, and McTavish, McGillivrays & Company Collection
File contains the articles of agreement for the creation of the Firm of McTavish McGillivray & Company. Included is also a photocopy version of the same document.
Part of Masson Collection
File include two items: a letter from William McGillivray to Jacob Oldham concerning trade between Lower Canada and Bermuda and subpoena for Joseph Briere to appear in a cause in which one of the requestors is William McGillivray.
Letters to Mackenzie, Oldham & Co.
Part of Masson Collection
Includes four letters sent to Mackenzie, Oldham & Co. The first letter requests that the Quebec merchants Burns & Woolsey hire a vessel for trade with Newfoundland. The second mentions waiting for the boat and articles paid by Caldwell, Fraser & Co. The third relates to the proper form of the certificates for half the pay of Capt. Osborne and Lieut. Fraser. The fourth relates to the contract for flour and mentions John Well(e)s who has just arrived with information that the Treaty of Trade & Commerce between Great Britain and the United States had been signed in London on Dec. 31st.
Letters to Mackenzie, Oldham & Co.
Part of Masson Collection
Includes two letters sent to Mackenzie, Oldham & Co. The first letter mentions getting 500 barrels of flour for Angus Shaw's posts and 100 barrels for themselves and discusses the possible hiring or purchase of the Desire (N.W. & Co. ship) by Mackenzie, Oldham & Co. The second letter mentions that Mr. Shaw wants to know whether they will be needing one of the vessels belonging to the King's Posts to bring down the flour.
Letter to Mackenzie, Oldham & Co.
Part of Masson Collection
File includes a letter addressed to Mackenzie, Oldham & Co. from Parker, Gerrard, Ogilvy & Co., ordering three to four hundred quintals of biscuit to be delivered at the End of the Island.
Parker, Gerrard, Ogilvy & Co.
Account of land managed by Jacob Hall, 22 September 1809 - January 1811
Part of Hall family fonds
Account of land in Chateauguay owned by Jacob, John and Joseph Hall, managed by Jacob Hall, dated on the first page 22 September 1809. Account concerns expenses incurred related to livestock and the maintenance of the land for the period of March 1809 through January 1811.
Part of Patterson and Co. papers
A deed of assignment prepared for the firm Patterson and Co. (represented in Montreal by William Walker, in Quebec by Samuel Hopkins, and in Liverpool by Andrew Todd Patterson and John Michael Malonek). The deed of assignment transfers the ownership of several plots of land in Montreal and Trois-Rivières (including a lumberyard, house, and windmill), a partially-built ship under construction in Trois-Rivières, a quantity of goods and wares (primarily timber, alcohol, and food), and some furniture and property from William Walker, Samuel Hopkins, Andrew Todd Patterson and John Michael Malonek to their attorneys, James McGill, John Richardson, and William Hallowell on behalf of their creditors. The agreement also includes an allowance for William Walker and Samuel Hopkins, as well as funding for a counting house in Montreal. The original agreement is dated 17 April 1811 and was notarized by Jonathan Abraham Gray and Thomas Barron.
Patterson and Co.’s creditors include McVickar & Stewart (James McVickar and William Stewart of New York, with their attorney John Richardson), McTavish, McGillivray & Co (William McGillivray, William Hallowell, Roderick McKenzie, Angus Shaw, Archibald Norman McLeod), Thomas W. Storrow & Co (Thomas W. Storrow, John C. Brown, Samuel A. Storrow, James Jones), and Lot & Asa Elmore.
A renewal of the contract from 10 March 1812 include new creditors: Douglas Reid & Co, McVickar & Stewart, Broker Darling & Co (by substitution from George Hamilton of Quebec), Alex Allison, Romeo Wotsworth, David David, Richard Seeds & Campbell Graham (power of substitution from Irvin Macnought & Co), Tappan & Sewall, Johnston & McQaid, Fred W. Ermatinger, Anthony Hood & Co., James McGill, John Morrall & Co, Esra Meach, Wright Bourlin & Wright, William Bowdin, and Joseph Hilson.
Additional signatories were added on 5 and 6 October 1812 (notarized by Henry Griffin): James McGill, John Richardson, William Hallowell, Henry Griffin, Thomas Barron, N.P. as well as the following creditors: George Sellers (represented by his attorney G. Garden, by power of substitution from John Salmon) and Thomas Clark (represented by his attorney Robert Frost per power of substitution from Sam. Hopkins).
Further signatories were added on 11 February 1814 and 22 June 1814 (notarized by E.H. Griffin): William Thompson (represented by his attorney Robert Frost, by power of substitution from William Mager), and M.C. Cowilling (attorneys by substitution to George Srymes attorney to the assignees of Carson, Parry & Co).
Barron, Thomas
Letterbook copy, April 1813 - 11 May 1813
Part of Hall family fonds
A page from a letterbook in Benjamin Hall's hand with copies of his correspondence, including an undated letter and one dated 11 May 1813. One letter is addressed to Richard Townsend & Sons and was written from Montreal.
Part of Masson Collection
File includes two letters addressed to Henry McKenzie from D. Ogden. The first letter refers to a letter on the subject of the Frobisher Estate and says that McKenzie may forward it to Ben Frobisher. In the second letter, Ogden gives his opinion on the matter of McKenzie's purchase of McKay's house in Terrebonne.
Ogden, D.