Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
 
Quebec Gazette #1885 04/06/1801 Page 4, Col. 1T.
 
  BY AUCTION WILL BE SOLD, 
      On Wednesday next the 10th instant at the subscriber's rooms for the benefit of the underwriters:
    The schooner Mary of 60 tons by register, with all her apparel, &c., as she lay on the 15th May per inventory to be exhibited on the day of sale. The said schooner has been stranded in November last at Anse-au-Griffon and was there on the said 15th May, and afterwards, will be sold, a large assortment of dry goods and other articles.
    The sale will begin at one o'clock.
 
      John Jones,  
      Auctioneer & Broker.  
      Quebec, Thursday 4th June, 1801      
 
 
Quebec Gazette #1896 20/08/1801 Page 1, Col. 1C Supplement.
 
  BY AUCTION 
      Will be sold on Friday next, the 21st instant, August, at the subscriber's rooms, in St. Peter Street, for the benefit of the underwriters and other concerned:
    The hull, rigging and other materials of the brig Industry, Robert Young, master; bound from Quebec for Leith, as she now lies stranded on the Island of Anticosti; her long boat is now at Quebec with oars, and with sails made out of the sails of the brig; an inventory of the materials, as correct as can be procured, will be exhibited at the sales.
    And immediately after the brig, will also be sold by auction, for account of the underwriters and others concerned, the whole of the cargo shipped on board the said brig Industry as it now lies on the said Island of Anticosti. A copy of the invoice of the said cargo amounting to £4658 10 10 may be seen on applying to Messrs. Irvine, McNaught & Co. and at the subscriber's counting house, and will be exhibited at the time of sale, when Captain Young will attend to make report of the condition of the vessel and cargo at the time he left the Island of Anticosti. The conditions of sale will be made known at the time of sale by,
   
 
      John Jones,  
      Auctioneer & Broker.  
     Quebec, 19th August, 1801.      
 
 
Quebec Gazette #1908 12/11/1801 Page 4, Col. 1C.
 
  BY AUCTION. 
      Will be sold on Saturday next the 14th instant, at Burns and Woolsey's auction room at two o'clock, for the benefit of the underwriters and other concerned:
    The schooner Mary, George Woolsey, master, of 58 tons burthen, stranded at l'Islet-du-Portage, with her materials; an inventory of which may be seen on applying to the brokers.
    Quebec, 11th November 1801.
 
 
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