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

APPCMDIX.IZZZTM'Donell, who bad then the care of the tettlement, andthiipaper, as the deponent was informed, and belieTCi,was signed by the said Grant, as clerk to the Nortb-West Company. Two days after, all the settlers, men,women, and children, to the number of two hundredouls, among whom the deponent was,were compelledby the same party to embark in boats, to be conveyed tothe sea-coast. On their second day's journey towardsj^udson's Buy, they were met by Arcltibald NormanM'Leod, Esq. a partner inthe North- West Companj,ooe of the house uf M'Tavish, M'Gillivrays, and Co.and also a justice of the peace for the Indian territories,with nine or ten canoes, and a batteau, with two piecesof artillery which had been some time before stolen andcarried away from Lord Selkirk's settlement at RedRiver, and having under his command ninety or on*hundred men, all armed. When the party with the saidM'Leod approached the boats in which the settleniwere, they set up the Indian war-whoop, and the saidM^Leod inquired whether the " Rascal and scoundrel,** Robertson" (meaning a gentleman in the service ofthe Hudson's Bay Company, by whom the settlement)after its destruction in the summer of one thousandeight hundred and fifteen, had been re-established,) waain the boats, and being told he was not, he then mquiredwhether Mr. Semple was in them, and was informed ofbis fate.—The said M'Leod afterwards compelled all thesettlers to go ashore, and caused them to be detainedthere two days, although they had not provisions auffi>cient for a quarter part of their journey to Hudson'sBay, and during this detention caused their bag^H'^e tObe searched, and every article they had to be examined.In this search the said settlers were plundered by Chepersons acting under the orders of the said M'Leod, of