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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that whenever he could find a favorable opportunity, he would send to us from the kitchen the best victuals he could procure. To this generous fellow I gave a draft on our house in England for a few pounds, of which he accepted after much entreaty. Williams continued at the depot (the Rock) till late in the season, remaining there to arrange all their canoes and men for the northern departments, and, after seeing them all off, he came down to York Factory. A few days previous to his arrival, Mess Shaw and MacTavish were put in a small building or hut back in the yard, the floor of which was overflowed whenever it rained. On Williams's arrival, Mr Frobisher, myself, and the men who were with us were suddenly confined to even more narrow limits, and to a space nearly square, between our building and the range of buildings occupied by the clerks of the Hudson's Bay Company, so that whenever we came out to take the air, we were exposed to the view of every one; and several times we were ordered to retire before dark, and go to bed and sleep, when the weather was almost suffocating, and we na[-]
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