Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 Revised Text.

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 [Revised Text]. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0020

These were their military preparations, and they soon had an opportunity of putting their threats into execution. On the 18^th of June, M^r John Duncan Campbell, and M^r Benjamin Frobisher, partners of the North West Company, with two clerks, arrived, in a couple of light canoes, at the Grand Rapid, on their way from English River to Fort William. M^r Campbell was one whose name was included in the fabricated charges preferred in the courts of Canada by the Earl of Selkirk, and was actually on his way to present himself before the court that was to sit in the following October for the very purpose of taking cognizance of offences alleged to have been committed in the Indian Territories[.] Against Mr. Frobisher not a shadow of accusation had been preferred, nor was there the remotest defensible pretext for arresting him. There were two men, Louis Majeau, and Pierre Boucher, engagés, or voyageurs in the service of the Company, who were in the same predicament with Mr. Campbell. On arriving at the head of the rapid, as is customary, the gentlemen landed to

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