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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[-]timate sufferings and calamitous fate, let me recapitulate the names and destinies of all who were so arbitrarily and shamelessly seized upon at the Grand Rapid. They were;

John Duncan Campbell, Esquire, 

a partner of the North West Company; imprisoned several months at Hudson's Bay, brought down to Canada in custody and there set at liberty; 

Joseph Paul, guide 

ditto; 

Pierrre Paul, steersman 

[ditto;] 

Pierre Boucher, engagé 

[ditto;] 

Louis Majeau, ditto 

[ditto;] 

Angus Shaw, Esquire 

John George McTavish, Esquire 

partners, imprisoned several months at the Hudson's Bay, then sent to England, and there set at liberty; 

Edward Cain, servant, 

made to enter into the Hudson's Bay Company's service, which he left on the first opportunity; 

Thomas Ogoniasto, Iroquois steersman, 

brought out by way of Lake Superior; 

William

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