Note 82 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (continued 3)

Joseph Robson went out to Hudson Bay in 1733, as a stone-mason, and was employed in the construction of Fort Churchill. He appears to have had disagreements with the governor, and returned to England in 1736. In 1744, he was again sent out as surveyor and superintendent of buildings at York factory, and explored the Nelson River. Returning to England in 1747, he testified on behalf of the Company in 1749, before the House of Commons committee; but some years later published a work, An Account of Six Years’ Residence in Hudson’s Bay (London, 1752), in which he animadverts against the treatment of servants and Indians by the Company’s governors. Long attempts to controvert him in this paragraph; but on p. 170 he uses his testimony in favor of the management of the Company.—Ed.