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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doing so he had been attacked by the same giddiness and dizziness which had before affected his head, had consequently fallen into the fire and from utter weakness been unable to lift himself up or extricate himself.
The season did not permit of his interment; all was frozen stiff and hard, and neither could a grave be dug nor [t]he body straitened. His obsequies were therefore left to be performed in the spring. Early in the next season (this year 1820) when the North West Company's canoes came out, Turcotte and Lepine, the survivors, were with them, and [t]ogether with all who were in the brigade, repaired to the spot, found the corpse in the same position, and making as good a coffin as the circumstances would permit, interred the remains of Mr Frobisher in a grave dug on the spot where he came [to] his untimely and wretched end.
Thus [p]erished miserably a gentleman who was highly esteemed by all who knew him, an excellent master, [b]eloved and respected [b]y [h]is friend[s] and servants, esteemed by all his ac[q]uaintance, and a most useful member of the society of which he was a [p]artner.
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