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.



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