All the rest for now are going to be "miscellaneous" until I can get proper numbers for them. Or a proper place.

York Factory Journal March 2, 1789
"-Three men at Hunting Tent the rest at the House(Officer excepted)are Invalids and unfit for Laborious duties.Among these are Peter Cloriston, Wm Miller, Robert Meal, Henry Hay, Thomas Linkletter, John Linkletter are as helpless as Children besides Hugh Wilson the most unprofitable the most Idle man I ever knew.He carries his Sloth to the highest Pitch as not to rise from Bed to ease nature and night after night like a Swine wallows in his own filth he is a great nuisance to the Factory"

York Factory,Joseph Colen, Master.
June 15, 1789
..." The rest on the recovery, except Hugh Wilson a man of all others, the most unmanageable in sickness or in health, he is a great nuisance, and no one will suffer him in their Cabbins, he is obliged to lay in a Truck bed in the Guard Room which he has almost rendered unbearable by his filth. What to do with him I know not. Neither entreaties or threats will prevail to excise him from his bed, sometimes for days together until his humor prompts him to get up. Never was there a Man so Indolent. God forbid I shall ever have his equal under me."
1M160 B.239/a/89

Oct.6,1786 Severn
..."At 9 pm William Appleby with the others came home from the woods with Rob Pim which had for the two preceding days thought to be delerious and during that time often attempted to hang himself,for which purpose he had procured a rope privately to execute his intention This proceeds as I am informed by William Colley his Cabbin and Messmate who caught him in an unnatural action with a Bitch a few days since. Immediately on this Intelligence I ordered the Bitch to be shot which was done.Having owned it before every person puts it out of doubt to suspect any otherwise.As there is but few people belonging to this House and to put him where confinement could not be done without attendance By giving him mild admonition he Promised to desist from his intentions,and beg'd of me to let him return to the Woods with the People to his duty,which I granted him and thought it most advisable so to do.with great caution to every person now under my Command or not to make mention of or throw it up to him,(shouts at any time a quarrel arises)upon pain of incurring my displeasure.also to be careful not to let the Indians know of such a vile affair.If they did I am certain it would be attended with no good.They despise any mean action they see or know us guilty of notwithstanding they are not infallible. Please God shall send him in the Sloop to be exchanged at York Factory and there to be sent home. The People returned to the Woods with him."...
1M134 B.198/a/35

Severn April 1,1796
..."Late in the evening a poor Indian woman almost starved came to the Factory.She informs me her Husband died early in the Winter in want of Provisions as did her Children seven in number,herself only survived.And it is not without suspicion but she must have eat some of her children from the inchoherant expressions she mentioned.However she says her food in common was mice,Rabbits and Porcupine when she could get them.for several days at a time she could procure nothing.and once six days she never eat anything.her constant course was for the Factory but she often lost her way."

From a letter dated Jan 28 1812 to Capt Mac Donel from William Cook
"The obstinancy & prejudice of the Orkneymen is highly reprehensible but a failing they cannot help & if you could distill Nectar from these very trees you would find the Opposition not less obdurate? & perservering. They are slaves to old Habits and old Customs but upon the whole a quiet set of people and the best calculated for the service of any that have yet been tried."
1M258 B.239/b/82

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