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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[-]ferings now appeared by the arrival from England on the 30th August of the Hudson's Bay Company's ship Prince of Wales. On board of the vessel came passengers Lieutt Franklin of the Royal Navy, and three other gentlemen forming an expedition dispatched by government to pursue discoveries towards the North Pole. Lieut[t] Franklin was the bearer of letters of introduction to several of the North West Company's partners whom he was expected to meet in the interior, and amongst them he had letters to Mr Shaw, Mr MacTavish, and Mr Campbell. The visits which the gentlemen of this mission made to the prisoners, and the attention they paid them, were evidently galling to their gaolers; but from their altered deportment in consequence, Messieurs Shaw and MacTavish were induced to apply for leave to embark for England on board the Prince of Wales, to which Williams, after some demur, consented, on condition of their entering into such recognizance as he should dictate, to which, as the only means of escaping from their rigourous captivity they agreed. Two papers were accordingly executed, of which they could not obtain copies, but which purported to
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