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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of them on their way to Canada to obtain their trials on the charges brought against them, they were, by having been taken prisoners, detained so long at Hudson's Bay, and carried around so many hundreds miles out of their way, precluded from appearing at the Court of Oyer and Terminer which had been appointed to meet at Quebec on the 21st of October for that special purpose, and for which they would have been in ample time had they proceeded by the ordinary route.
Mr Frobisher now found himself alone with the two Canadians, Turcotte and Lepine, who had been taken out of the English River brigade with the Pauls; and his enfeebled body and irritated mind could scarcely support the horror of his situation. As a last effort and previous to the sailing of the Prince of Wales, in which vessel he understood his friends Messrs Shaw and MacTavish were to be sent to England, but with whom he was debarred from having any intercourse, it appears that he addressed a letter to Governor Williams of which the following mutilated copy was found in his pocket book after his decease.
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