Transcribed by Audrey Henderson, June, 2014
Quebec City Archives
Themis Database of Court Records
October 26, 1852
Piece #77859
Localization 3B 023 04-07-001A-01
Contenant #1960-01-357\116
Dated the 23rd day of July, 1836
Recognizance
Of
Hebert Haney and Thomas Cassin
For the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
Province of Lower Canada
District of Quebec
Be it remembered that on the twenty third day of July1836 in the sixth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, before me the undersigned one of the Justices of Our Sovereign Lord the King assigned to keep the Peace within the District of Quebec, residing in the Settlement of Val Cartier in the said District appeared and were personally present Hebert Haney, Thomas Cassin, William Corrigan and James Donohoo, all of the said Settlement of Val Cartier and acknowledge themselves to owe and be indebted to our said Sovereign Lord the King to wit the said H. Haney and Thomas Cassin each in the sum of thirty pounds sterling money of Great Britain and the said William Corrigan and James Donohoo each in the sum of thirty pounds sterling money aforesaid each to be respectively made and levied of their several goods and chattels, lands and tenements to the use of our said Sovereign Lord the King, His Heirs and Successors if the said H. Haney and Thomas Cassin shall fail in performing the conditions herein underwritten. The conditions of this Recognizance is such that if the above named H. Haney and Thomas Cassin shall personally appear at the next General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the said District of Quebec to be begun and holden in the City of Quebec on the (left blank) day of (left blank) next and from day to day during the said Session to do and receive what shall then and there be enjoined by the Court without ??? shall not depart from the Court and in the meantime shall keep the Peace and be of good behavior towards our Sovereign Lord the King and all and every the ??? people of our Sovereign Lord the Kind and more especially towards James Ryder, Shoemaker, Val Cartier in the said District of Quebec then that the present Recognizance shall be null and void but otherwise shall be and remain in full force and virtue.
Taken and acknowledged at Val Cartier on the day and year herein first above written.
Before me,
Signed AJ Wolff, J.P.
Also signed: H.Haney, Thomas Cassin, William Corrigan, James Donohoo
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Transcribed by Audrey Henderson, November 2014
Quebec City Archives
Themis Database of Court Records
July 22, 1836
Piece #77858
Localization 3B 023 04-07-001A-01
Contenant #1960-01-357\116
Dated 22 July 1836
Deposition of
James Ryder
Versus
Thomas Cassin
Assault and Battery
For the Quarter Sessions
Deposition of James Ryder, Shoemaker, Valcartier.
Deposeth upon oath taken before me Alex J Wolff, Esquire, one of His Majesty’s Justices assigned to keep the peace within the District of Quebec on the 22nd day of July 1836.
That on the evening of the twentieth instant one Thomas Cassin of Valcartier assaulted, beat and bruised him so a to endanger his life putting him in bodily fear without provocation or cause and against the Peace of Our Lord the King, Further the said deponent saith not.
Signed: James Ryder
Signed: A.J. Wolff, J.P.
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