Genealogy - Pond
The Pond family of Connecticut is connected to my line through my Youker/Horrocks/Broadrick/Brooks relatives.
Perhaps the most famous/infamous Pond family member is Peter Pond Jr., the fur trader. Peter Pond, Jr. (1740-1807), participated in the French and Indian wars, fighting with the British. His diary of those events is well known, and describes in detail some of the same events chronicled in "Last of the Mohicans" by James Fenimore Cooper.
Pond and his father were early traders in the Detroit area. He established an early trading post at Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin. He also explored the Canadian interior in West Central Alberta, and East Central British Columbia.
Read more about Peter Pond at these web sites:
Peter Pond - The Columbia Encyclopedia entry
Peter Pond and the Athabasca country by Dorthea Calverley
Clash of Worlds: Peter Pond and the spread of smallpox by Lorraine Hoffman (Mercredi) and Phillip R. Coutu, School of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
Peter Pond's narrative of fur trading at Mackinac from the University of Wisconsin student history network.
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