Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...

iIzsxAPPENDIX.had heard to the said Patrick Corcoran, and afterwardsmn-1'^mentioned it to Michael Heden, both of them hisfellow-prisoners.(Signed)Sworn at Montreal, l6th day ofSeptember, 1816, before me,JOHN BOURKE.(Signed) THOMAS M'CORD, J. P.•ss[ C. C. ]**Deposition of Michael Heden.¥Montreal,}Michael Hedex, late of Fort Douglassto wit. 5 at Red River, in the territories of theHudson^s Bay Company, in North America, now at thecity of Montreal, in the Province of Lower Canada,blacksmith, maketh oath, that he was engaged on thefirst day of June one thousand eight hundred andtwelve, to serve the Hudson's Bay Company in NorthAmerica, as a blacksmith, and in that year went toHudson's Bay, where he remained till the followingyear, when he went to the settlement formed by theEarl of Selkirk at Red River aforesaid, and remainedthere until the said settlement was broken up anddestroyed by the agents and servants of the North-WestCompany, in the summer of the year one thousandeight hundred and fifteen, and in the autumn of thesame year returned with new supplies, and anotherbody of settlers tg Red River aforesaid. That in thelatter end of the winter, and in the spring of the presentyear, information was received at Fort Douglass aforesaid,from Indians and Canadians, that tlge North- West