Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0019
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vious to the sailing of Prince of Wales in which he understood his friends Mess. Shaw and MacTavish were to be sent to England, but with whom he was debarred from having any intercourse, it appears that he addressed a letter to Governor Williams of which the following copy was found in his pocket book.
"York factory, Sept 16, 1819
Seriously reflecting upon the situation in which I shall be placed by your determination of detaining me here all winter, in justice to myself I once more take the liberty of suggesting to you what ought surely to be regarded as strictly satisfactory. I will become responsible in any sum you may think proper to dictate for my appearance in a court of justice either in England or in Canada, provided you grant me a passage to England, and if necessary I will join in my recognizance Messrs Shaw and MacTavish, who, knowing my means, can have no objection to become my sureties. The critical state of my health imperiously demands this."
The savages who were his keepers paid no attention to this: and he was doomed to experience the mortif and miserable prospect of a dreary imprisonment during a long Hudson's Bay winter, of a set of merciless enemies.
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