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

"men, in order to retard them so that the Hudson's Bay Company's people might the ensuing season get to their wintering-grounds and trading posts before those of the North West Company"; with regard to Ogoniasto, "tha[t] he had no orders to take him, but that he did so merely to detain and inconvenience the canoes;" and speaking of Joseph Paul, who was left pretty much at liberty, that "he was treated so, because he expected to gain him over to their side." In Paul's own declaration on this head he states, "qu'il est convaincu que le but et le motif de leur arrestation n'étoit que de faire tort à la société du Nord Ouest, en leur privant des services de leurs engagés; qu'il eut occasion en parlant avec Joh[n] Clarke de lui faire connoitre son innocence, comme son intention et son désir d'aller à Montréal pour se justifier. Clarke lui dit qu'on connoissait tout cela mais que lui, étant un homme très utile à ses bourgeois, ils vouloient l'avoir a leur service; c'étoit pourquoi on l'avoit fait prisonnier, et non pas pour lui faire de la peine; disant de plus, qu'on avoit

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