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
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et qu'il paroissoit parler poliment quand il s'adressoit aux Meurons." i.e. "The deponent, being then in his lodge, saw Mr Frobisher, who appeared to be very indignant at having been made prisoner, go to the entrance of the lodge, in order to speak to the de Meuron soldiers who were on guard there; that upon Mr Frobisher saying a few words in English, which the deponent did not understand, one of the soldiers gave him a violent kick, by which he fell down in the lodge; that, having got up the same man, who was surrounded by his armed comrades, then gave Mr Frobisher a violent blow with his fist, by which he was a second time knocked down; that, having again recovered his feet, and again endeavouring to address the soldiers, Mr Frobisher, after being threatened to be knocked down with the buttend of a musquet, received a blow on the side of his head with the barrel of a heavy soldier's musquet, which stretched him senseless on the ground, and that he fell so instantaneously and without a struggle, that the depo[-]
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