Harmon Daniel Williams
Born in Vermont. Entered service of North
West Company, 1800, at Montreal, and left immediately for the western
fur country. Returned to the east in 1819, bringing with him his
Journals, covering this period, which were edited by Daniel Haskel, of
Burlington, Vt., and published at that place in 1820; reprinted in New
York, with a brief introduction, 1903. Returned to the West, and
remained there several years, finally settling with his native wife and
family on the shores of Lake Champlain. One of his daughters conducted a
private school in Ottawa for many years. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Stuart's
lieutenant in New Caledonia, 98. =Bib.=: Journal of Voyages and Travels
in the Interior of North America. For biog., see Bryce, Hudson's Bay
Company; Laut, Conquest of the Great North-West; Burpee, Search for
the Western Sea.