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

be recognizances, one from M^r MacTavish with M^r Shaw, as his surety, to appear in a Court of Justice in England or Canada, under a penalty of three thousand pounds, but not specifying any charge upon which he was to appear, and the other one from M^r Shaw to keep the peace, under the like penalty.

M^r Campbell and M^r Frobisher equally applied to know their fate. The latter received no answer, but the former was apprized about the 3^d of September that it was determined he should be embarked with Joseph Paul, Pierre Paul, Louis Majeau, and Pierre Boucher on board the brig Weir, Capt Thompson for Moose Factory thence to be sent to Canada. They embarked on the 7^th and arrived at Moose on the 26^th [of] September; whence after a most fatiguing, and indeed perilous, journey by New Brunswick and Michipicoton which they reached the 18^th of October, they, having passed by Holland's landing and York got to Montreal on the 30^th of November. Nothing further is necessar[y] to be stated relative to them than that, having been a[ll]

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