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

[-]portunity, he left them, and found refuge at one of the No[rth] West Company's posts there. Ogoniasto relates that at a post beyond Jack River, (probably the Rock) he was left behind and at liberty; that both Clarke and Robertson, there told him they had no right to keep him prisoner, but that, if he chose; they would engage him in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company; to which he replied that he would not come under any engagement there, but would see what he might do when he got down to Montreal; that one day Colin Robertson called him into his room and said, "tiens Thomas, je te fais present de deux cents francs, voilà un ecrit, tu iras au bureau à Montreal et tu les recevras, mais il faut que tu t'engages pour nous à Montreal." i.e. "look, Thomas, I make you a present of two hundred livres, here is an order, you will go to the office at Montreal to receive them, but you must engage yourself with us at Montreal." He afterwards embarked in a canoe with Robertson and Clarke, and having met a canoe of winterers who were going down, he was put on board and came by way [of]

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