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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William Mackintosh, partner, |
escaped at the imminent peril of his life; |
Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire, partner Amable Turcotte[,] steersmen Joseph Lepine[,] [steersmen] |
retained in confinement at York Factory, with what ultimate intentions can not be known. |
Visibly as Mr Frobisher's constitution was impaired, and his intellects affected, before the departure of his friends, it appears, from the account given by the two Canadians, Turcotte and Lepine, who were left to share his confinement, that both his health and his head became much worse afterwards; and that nothing solaced his mind excepting the vague hope of effecting his escape from the ruthless hands into which he had fallen. Fits of listlessness and sullen indifference, would be succeeded by starts of passion and exclamations of despair. He would night and day pace his narrow appartment, throwing his arms about, then clasping his hands would bewail his hard fate, his deserted and hopeless condition. His men, with the characteristic gaiety and carelessness of their
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