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| Quebec Mercury #48, Page 382. Monday, November 27, 1809. |
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The pilots left the Mermaid and her convoy on Monday last, at
Bic, all well.
On their way up, they saw a vessel ashore on Red Island shoal,
which they thought would get off. Three other vessels were ashore
at Crane Island. One of them is supposed to be the new ship
Samson, another the brig Fletcher, the third a light ship bound up.
Occasioned by their late arrival and the early setting in of the
winter, the following vessels are condemned to winter in this
harbour, notwithstanding the greatest exertions to get the greater
part away. A few had sailed and were obliged to put back. A
number of others had taken in their cargoes, which they are now re-landing.
The quantity of ice in the river is very considerable.
Their names are as follows. Ships Intrepid, Hedley Grove,
Brothers, Lydia, Hercules, Princess Amelia, Crown, Bruce, Thomas,
and Carmarthan. Brigs Magdalen, Ceres, Ocean, Dryad, Hope,
Favourite, Leith, Diana, Countess of Leven, New Liverpool, James,
Sarah, Newland, Maranim, Alchemist, Neptune, Hero and Amity,
schooners St. Ann and sloop Prince of Wales. |
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| Quebec Mercury #49, Page 390. Monday, December 3, 1809. |
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The arrivals at Quebec this season, reported
by the
Harbour Master, amount to: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440.
Of which the licensed pilots brought up: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305.
Apprentice pilots: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.
Farmers and fishermen: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.
Came up without pilots, and many of these were of the
largest class: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69.
Total: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .440.
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| Quebec Gazette #2330 14/12/1809 Page 2, Col. 4T. |
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The New Liverpool, which sailed on Thursday last, has put into
winter at Grosse Isle, having found the river below full of ice.
The Samson is reported to be in a perilous situation, and the
Maria, a ship bound up, is said to be safe at Green Island. |
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Ken Annett kindly shared with us the following article on the wreck
of the schooner Maria which occurred between Cloridorme and Grand
Étang in November, 1809, another of his 417 monographs of 19th
century Gaspesian life and times. |
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PREFACE.
In 1986, when Vancouver's "Expo" provided the world with vivid
evidence of mankind's progress in the fields of transportation and
communication, this story of shipwreck of the Gaspsian schooner
Maria will serve as a reminder of whence we have come since the
year 1809.
The spirit and fortitude of Gaspesian mariners such as Captain
Jean Baptiste Dumas incites admiration. As the master of the
schooner Maria, storm stayed at Percé and wrecked subsequently on
the rugged northern coast of Gaspesia in cruel November weather.
Captain Dumas made his way on foot to Griffon Cove and then from
Grand Étang to Quebec to record the story that follows.
Declaration and Protest of Captain Jean Baptiste Dumas, Master
of the Schooner Maria.
Today, the nineteenth of the month of December in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, appeared before me,
Jacques Voyer, Notary Public for the Province of Lower Canada,
resident at Quebec, undersigned, and witness below, Sieur Jean
Baptiste Dumas, formerly Master of the schooner Maria, of the
burthen of thirty one and two thirds tons, according to register,
who, after being duly sworn, declared and affirmed as follows:
That the said schooner, being well and duly equipped,
provisioned, ballasted and furnished, having anchors, rigging and
running gear and with sufficient crew for a vessel of her size, on
Wednesday the twenty fifth of October last, having a partial load
of seven "quarts" of salmon and about fifty quintals of cod, set
sail with Sieur Jean Baptiste Dumas as Master and Sieurs Joseph
Béland, Jose Dumas and John Dumas as seamen, from Percé bound for
Shediac to load oysters. They reached there on the twenty seventh
of the same month and after loading sixty two "barriques" of
oysters, made sail on November the third to return to Percé so as
to complete loading prior to departure for their destination of
Quebec. Their voyage to Percé continued without any extraordinary
incident and they reached there on November the seventh.
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