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Conception Bay North
Harbour Grace Court House Petition 1791
The principal merchants of Conception Bay addressed a petition to Chief
Justice John REEVES at St. John's for the establishment of a permanent
Court at Harbor Grace. He had been sent from England to promote
improvements in court proceedings. The petition was signed by the following:
| James CLEMENT |
George C. CAWLEY |
| James PRENDERGAST |
I. ANDREWS |
| James CAWLEY |
Jonathan PARSONS |
| Robert PARSONS |
Michael DALEY |
| John SNOW |
James MacBRAIRE |
| Henry ANDREWS |
George DAVIS |
| Isaac BRADBURY |
Henry THOMAS |
| William COLE |
William MARTIN |
| William BADCOCK |
Richard VALENTINE |
| William COUGLAN |
Thomas DANSON |
| Charles PARSONS |
William DANSON |
| Timothy HEARN |
Edward PIKE |
| William DROVER |
LINTHORNE & WARN' |
| Robert SMITH |
William HENDERSON |
| Thomas BAKER |
J. STRETTON |
| John COX |
John HEFFERMAN |
| William PINSENT |
Thomas LEWIS |
| Joseph FURNEAUX |
John LEVISCONT |
| William HILL |
Helier FLOCQUARD |
| Barth CORBAN |
Darby HARTERY |
| Philip BEENLEN |
Richard NITT |
| Richard CORNISH |
| John G. DUNBAR (For Jones, Romb, Joy & Co.) |
| William MULLOWNEY (For John Webb, Jr. &
Co.) | The petition was granted, but it took some 15 years before the first
Court House was erected at Harbor Grace.
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