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

Sault S^te Marie and Upper Canada, to Montreal.

To return to the prisoners at York Factory. M^r Shaw and M^r MacTavish were assigned appartments within the factory, with permission to walk on the leads or flat roof, but with strict orders not to pass the gate, and they were likewise forbidden from holding any communication with the other gentlemen, their fellow sufferers. M^r Frobisher's journal continues as follows:

"July 13^th. We are deprived of ... intercourse with Mess. Shaw and MacTavish."

"July 14^th. We applied for medicine, being all sick with colds, but were refused."

"July 15^th. I gave a note of some clothes I wanted which … promised to supply ..."

"July 16^th. Excessive warm ... prison ... Mess. Shaw and MacTavish, a proof they do not intend to send them ... We can not get no wood or water without much difficulty, and when we do get it, we are indebted for it to the humanity of one Mackenzie.["]

"July 17^th[.] Extreme sultry ...["]

"July ... We find the time tedious ... my

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