Navigating the Lower Saint Lawrence in the 19th Century.
 
      Under this authority, and being anxious to do the best in our power for all parties interested, we hired as many schooners as could, at that late season, be procured, and sent Captain Cribben back to the ship, with a crew sufficient to save both her and her cargo, had it been possible. He arrived at the ship on the 2nd of November, where, from time to time, as the vessels we dispatched reached him, he trans-shipped as much of the cargo as they could take in, and returned himself on the 29th of the same month, when we received from him the following letter:  
  Quebec, 29th November, 1811.    
       Gentlemen, 
      I am just arrived from the wreck of the ship Trio, after having done all in my power to save the ship and cargo, having loaded and sent up as many loads as I could get schooners or boats for; they have all arrived but one long boat, loaded with hardware, which was wrecked at Green Island, and the cargo is safe there. I hereby authorize and request you to advertise and sell, for the benefit of the concerned, the ship, remainder of cargo, and materials, as they now lay or did lay, stranded on the north side the River St. Lawrence, Pointe aux Mille Vaches.  
    And am your most obedient servant,  
      John Cribben.  
  Messrs. George & William Hamilton      
 
      In consequence of which the following advertisement was inserted in the Quebec Gazette:  
 
      At the Neptune Inn, will be sold, on Monday next, the 3rd December, for the benefit of the concerned:
    The ship Trio, John Cribben, master, as she now lays, or did lay, stranded on the north side of the River St. Lawrence, nearly opposite the Island of Bic, with the remainder of her cargo, consisting mostly of iron, steel, tobacco, and some dry goods, also, all her materials, except one cable and some sails, brought up in the Mary, Captain Karney, and sold at St. Andrew's wharf, on Monday last.		  
    George  & William Hamilton,  
      Agents for the underwriters.  
 
      Any information may be obtained respecting the Trio, by applying to Captain Cribben, who is just arrived from said ship, and at Mr. Dallow's the taylors' lower town market-place.
    Quebec, 29th. November, 1810. 		 
 
      Pursuant to this advertisement, the said vessel was, on the 3rd day of December, set up for sale by Mr. Louis Delamare, and the conditions of sale published; when Mr. James Voyer, Notary Public, appeared on the part of Peter Fraser and others, and read aloud the following protest:
    On the third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the request of Peter Fraser, Esquire, William Pettigrew, Jean Baptiste Asselin and Joseph Albert, all of Green Island, in the County of Cornwallis; I, James Voyer, Notary Public, duly commissioned and sworn for the Province of Lower Canada, dwelling in the city of Quebec, in the said Province, went to the Neptune Inn, in the lower town of Quebec, in consequence of an advertisement inserted in the Quebec Gazette, on Thursday last, whereby George and William Hamilton, styling and subscribing themselves agents of the underwriters, gave public notice, that on this day the ship Trio, John Cribben, master, will be sold at the Inn aforesaid, as she now lays or did lay, stranded, on the north side of the River St. Lawrence, nearly opposite the island of Bic. And in consequence of the sale of the said ship now about to be made by the said Louis Delamare, I, the said Notary, at the request aforesaid have given the said Louis Delamare to understand and be informed; that the said requestants have certain claims and demands against the ship Trio, by way of salvage, for certain services by them rendered to the said ship, of which said claims and demand for salvage, and for the lien which the said requestants have upon the said vessel for the same. We do hereby give due notice to the said Louis Delamare, in order that if he should persist in selling the same, the said claims and rights may be saved and reserved into the said requestants; and that the purchaser or purchasers thereof be made responsible for the amount thereof: hereby declaring that in default thereof, the said requestants should and would hold him the said Louis Delamare, personally responsible for the amount of the said salvage: and did and doth hereby protest against him for the same; and for all damages, costs, charges, and interests, to be suffered and sustained by the said requestants by reason of the said Louis Delamare neglecting as refusing to comply with the present request.
    Thus done and notified at Quebec aforesaid, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses, the day, month, and year first above written. Copy hereof having been left with the said Louis Delamare, speaking as aforesaid, so that of the premises he may not pretend or allege ignorance. - Signed on the original.		  
  William Pettigrew,
Jean Baptiste Asselin,		   P. Fraser  
  Joseph X Albert     } Witnesses    
  George Ross,
L. Massue		      
 
 
  as appears by the same remaining of record in my office, a marginal note approved.  
 James Voyer, Notary Public. 
 
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