On the twenty third of the said month of November at about 2 o'clock A.M., the wind blew so strong that it drove the ship far enough on shore so that by God's blessing, the tide left her and she got entirely dry, when they, the said deponents, with the rest of the crew, went on shore and there found the man who had been carried away in the boat the day before.     The season being then so advanced as to leave no hope of getting away from the Island before the spring, thought it prudent to take such means as could best preserve them from the inclemency of the weather, and to enable them to subsist during the winter, that therefore watched all the opportunities providence afforded them in their deplorable situation to save such articles as they possibly could get from the wreck, and succeeded in saving, at different times, the following effects, to wit:     thirty four tierces of salmon,     twenty five barrels of flour,     nine barrels of herring,     fifty two puncheons packs,     two bower anchors,     three cables,     one jib, standing, main and top rigging,     two top sails,     one lower top mast and top mast gallant steering sail,     one coil of standing rigging,     twenty chain bolts and dead eyes,     about six hundred weight of old iron,     twenty four double and single blocks,     some parcels of running rigging,     pump gear,     a cambouse,     the iron work of the windlass,     four water pails,     two kegs of paint,     a jar of oil,     two new yards,     a shovel,     a hand saw,     four barrels of beef,     two barrels of pork,     six barrels of bread.     That they remained on the said Island till Friday the twenty third of March, when they, with the rest of the crew, set off in their boat to get to Gaspé, but when they got within three leagues of that place, they met with so much ice that they were obliged to return to the Island where they remained to the eighteenth of April.     From whence they crossed over to Griffin Cove, and on the twentieth at three o'clock A.M., they set off in their boat for Quebec. That on meridian, they fell in with and got on board the ship Jane bound for Quebec and arrived in the said Port of Quebec the twenty fifth of this present month.     All of which several matters and things the said Robert Cornfoot, George Thompson, François Lebrun and William McDougall, upon their several corporal oaths, declare to be the truth.     In consideration of what is therein before set forth, the said Robert Cornfoot thought proper to protest as hereby doth most solemnly protest, as is usual in like cases, against the seas, winds, weather, waves, billows and all other accidents for all damages, losses, costs, charges, expenses, hurts and injuries already suffered or that shall be suffered by the said Robert Cornfoot as master of the said brig Charlotte and by all and every other person or person interested or concerned in the said ship, her cargo, or in any manner of ways regarding the premises.     Thus done and protested in the City of Quebec aforesaid, the day, month and year first above written. The said Robert Cornfoot, George Thompson, François Leburn and William McDougall, have to these presents set and subscribed their names in the presence of us, the said Notaries, who have also to the same, set and subscribed our names in faith and testimony of the premises.

		(Signatures)	Robert Cornfoot
			George Thompson
			François Lebrun
			William McDougall
			Jas. Voyer, N.P.

G. R. Bossé©2001-05

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