William Bevan (sloopmaster)
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William Bevan (sloopmaster)
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William Bevan was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and came to the Fort Albany on James Bay in 1723 from England as mate of the Beaver sloop. He became Master there four years later, succeeding George Gunn in the third-highest-ranking position at the trading post. Bevan and a party explored the Moose River area and the site of the older Moose Fort trading post which Pierre de Troyes had captured from the HBC in 1686, which the English had burned to the ground in 1696. A new Moose Fort was
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