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

"couru après lui depuis quatre ans: que d'autres fois on lui disoit, donnez nous seulement votre parole que vous monterez pour nous, et voyant qu'il ne vouloit pas quitter le service de la Compagne du Nord Ouest, ils tachoient de lui persuader qu'ils le gagneroient tôt ou tard, disant qu'avec de l'argent ils l'auroient tout comme un autre. Que c'etoit leur intention de se rendre maître des meilleurs hommes de la Compagnie du Nord Ouest, ce qui leur feroit beaucoup de tort, et cela pour se dedommager des mauvais succès qu'eux (les gens la Compagne de la Baie d'Hudson) avoient eu jusq'alors dans leur commerce en Athabasca." i.e. "That he was convinced that the motive and object for their arrest was only to do injury to the North West Company, by depriving them of the service of their engagés; that in a conversation with John Clarke he had occasion to make known to him his innocence of the crime laid to his charge, and his intention an[d] [wish] to go to Montreal to justify himself. Clarke [told him] they knew all that very well, but that as [he was a]

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