Volume 1

H. B. AND X. Y. OPPOSITION. 18/
Sept. yth. Bras Court's [Short Arm's] daughter died,
aged nine years.
liquor to wash away the grief
Great lamentation—must have a keg of
from the heart, a fathom of
cloth to cover the body, and a quarter of a pound of vermilion
to paint the same. On the 13th Thomas Miller,
with eight Orkney men of the H. B. Co., arrived from
Albany factory and began to build below me, on the E.
side of Red river [appar. about site of present St. Vincent,
Minn.]. They have one boat and one canoe. I went
hunting on horseback, killed two buffalo, and had the
misfortune to burst my double-barreled gun. lyth. I
went below to meet the X. Y. opposition. Found Mr.
Desfond * building at Riviere aux Gratias ; he had one
and hence are not easily identified. We have had already in Henry, Etienne
Roy : see list, p. 51, and compare note '^, p. 137, I have made memoranda
of the following : Aimable Roy's family was one of seven of which the settlement
of Baye Verte consisted in 1785.—Augustin Roy of the N. W. Co. was
on 600 livres wages at Le Pic, 1799.—Baptiste Roy (full name no doubt Jean
Baptiste Roy) of N. W. Co. was at Lower Fort des Prairies on the Saskatchewan,
1799 I
Baptiste Roy, again, was voyageur of the N. W. Co. in the
Fond du Lac Dept., 1804.—Fran9ois Roy of N, W. Co. was at L'Anse,
1801-02 : see abstract at end of this chapter.—Francois Roy was voyageur,
N. W. Co., Fort Dauphin, 1804. — Jean Roy (full name no doubt Jean Baptiste
Roy) was with the trader Umfreville, about 1782. — Jean Baptiste Roy of the
N. W. Co. was at Fort Gibraltar on Red r. when it was seized by Colin
Robertson for the H. B. Co. in Apr., 18 16, and was a witness at Toronto in the
Semple case in Oct., 18 18.—
Jean Baptiste Louis Roy was one of the defenders
of Cote sans Dessein on the Missouri against Sacs, Foxes, and lowas, 1814-
see Tasse, II, pp. 131-36. — Joseph Roy's family was one of seven of which
Baye Verte consisted in 1785 : compare
Aimable Roy. — Joseph Roy of the
N. \V. Co. was foreman in the Athabasca Dept.,' 1804. — Joseph Roy, alias
Portelance, was voyageur, N. W. Co., Le Pic, 1804.—Vincent Roy was
voyageur or interpreter, or both, N. W. Co., Fond du Lac Dept., 1799 and
1804.—One Roy was " found by himself " by David Thompson, Aug. 27th,
1798, at the mouth of R. aux Rapides (Missinipi waters, near Lac la Rouge).
—One Roy, employee N. W. Co., was under Thompson at the fort near Forks
of Peace r., summer and fall of 1803.— Pierre Voison, alias Roy, appears in
N. W. Co. lists as at Kaministiquia, 1804.
* Elsewhere J. Desford and J. Duford—latter appar. the correct name. He
was at Pembina for the X. Y. Co., winter of 1803-04 ;
joined the N. W. Co.
after the coalition of 1804 ; was shot by an Indian at Pembina, 2 a. m.,
Oct. 31st, 1805, died 2 p. m., Nov. ist, 1805 : details beyond, at these dates.