Excerpt from Richard Cartwright's Letterbook, 1785-1786, which is among the best documentary sources for early commercial history of Kingston. Open at a letter to the Montreal firm of Todd & McGill on the 13th of February 1786.
Regulations forbidding private trade on Lakes Ontario & Erie, threatening forfeiture of canoes, trade goods & furs, & fines of 1500 livres against traders & merchants (Issued by M.Begon).
Commission appointing Sieur de la Gorgendiere to take charge of trade at Fort Frontenac as agent of Jacques Raudot, Intendant of New France, Jan.23,1706.