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From: rstewart <>
Subject: David Stuart, Kentucky, c 1810
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:13:38 -0500
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Hi all, I'm working on a book reprint "Donald Mackenzie, King of the
NorthWest" and came across this Stuart. If anyone is related to this
adventurer then they will find lots of info on him - see the references at
the end of some paragraphs. There was also a Robert Stuart listed.


ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT made and concluded the twenty-third day of June in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten, by and between
John Jacob Astor of the city of New York, Merchant of the first part, and
Alexander McKay, Donald Mackenzie, Duncan McDougall and Wilson P. Hunt,
acting for themselves and the several persons who have already agreed to
become or shall hereafter become associated with them, under the firm of
the Pacific Fur Company ............. Whereas the said parties together
with David Stuart, Robert McLelan, Joseph Miller and Ramsay Crooks, have it
in contemplation that they, or they and their associates or some of them
shall make a trading Establishment in the North West Coast of America for
the purpose of carrying on the fur trade at Columbia River or in its
vicinity or in any other place upon the said Coast where it shall be found
practicable and where it may be conveniently done without violating any of
the Laws of the United States....


On July 23, 1810, the Articles of Agreement between these men acting for
themselves and for others who were to become members of the company - David
Stuart, Ramsay Crooks, Robert McLelan, Joseph Miller, Robert Stuart, and
John Clarke (the two latter names do not appear in the original articles)
were signed. - Flandrau: "Astor and. the Oregon Country.


In May they were found by a party of Astorians under David Stuart and taken
down to the Post, which they reached May 12, 1812, more than a year out of
St. Louis and after hardships of the extreme sort. These westbound
Astorians still had men and goods scattered across the western part of the
continent. There were four men left back by Crooks and the two trapping
parties left on the head waters of the Snake - thirteen men in all. Of
these seven got on through to Astoria, a full year later, reaching the post
January 15, 1813. These events sound simple in the telling, but what an
astonishing series of experiences they cover! In this wild journey they had
travelled more than thirty-five hundred miles. -Emmerson Houghton, in
Saturday Evening Post.



Robert Stewart
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