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

"man highly useful to his employers, they, (the Hudson's Bay Company) wanted to have him in their service, and that it was for that reason they had taken him and not to put him to trouble, adding that they had been on the look out for him for four years past. That at another time they said, only give us your word that you will engage with us to come up; and seeing that he would not desert from the service of the North West Company, they endeavoured to persuade him that they should, sooner or later, succeed in gaining him, saying that with money he was to be got as well as another; that it was their design to make themselves masters of the best men belonging to the North West Company, which would do them a great deal of injury, and that they did this to make themselves amends for the bad success they (the Hudson's Bay Company) had hitherto had in their trading concerns in Athabasca." Multiplied instances might be adduced of similar sentiments and conduct; but nothing further will here be stated than the additional circum[-]

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