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

[-]mediately ordered M^r Mackintosh to be seized and dragged on shore, which was accordingly done in a violent and brutal manner, he being seized by the neck, and hauled through the water to land, and on his expostulating one of the De Meuron soldiers struck him a heavy blow with the buttend of his musquet. An Iroquois Indian, named Thomas Ogoniasto, who was an expert steersman, was likewise dragged on shore, and made a prisoner of. Neither for the arrest of this man, nor against M^r Mackintosh, could they allege the slightest legal pretense, nor did they ever; but M^r Mackintosh had rendered himself very obnoxious to their party by resisting successfully an attempt made the year before by John Clarke, who was one of the present gang, to take forcible possession of Fort Vermillion, the principal North West Company's establishment on Peace River; on which occasion, although Clarke had actually entered the fort with a number of armed men, Mackintosh, though at first surprised and taken, got loose, and at the head of no more than four Canadians succeeded in driving out the assailants.

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