1683 HUDSON BAY Gorget FUR TRADE ERA, English-Cree Native American

Description: 1683 HUDSON BAY Gorget FUR TRADE ERA, English-Cree Native American. Free USPS priority shipping.Obverse: "Hudson's Bay Company 1683 Port (not Fort) Albany"..Reverse: engraved "Loyal To The Kings Government" Necklace is 36". This type of fur trade era gorget were given to the Hudson's Bay Company (usually Cree) Indians and trappers who were loyal to England and went deep into the wilderness to trap furs. This type of "license" was highly prized by the trappers, Indians, and fur traders.Fort Albany, Canadian fur-trading post, N Ont., at the mouth of the Albany River on James Bay. It was founded (before 1682) by the Hudson's Bay Company as one of its earliest forts. In the Anglo-French struggle for the Hudson Bay trade, Fort Albany was taken by the French in 1686.The original fort was built inland from the mouth of the Albany River, partly for defense, and moved several times. Ships from England had to lay at the river mouth at Albany Roads. In 1683, Governor Henry Sergeant was directed to make it the primary trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company; it was the largest fort on the Bay at that point, with four bastions and forty-three guns. In 1684 a Monsieur Péré reached the fort from French Canada. He was arrested and his two companions sent to Charlton Island. In 1685, the French built Fort des Français at the juncture of the Albany and Kenogami Rivers to block the indigenous people from coming north to trade with the HBC. In 1686, all three posts on James Bay (Moose Factory, Rupert House, and Fort Albany) were captured by an overland expedition from Quebec. Fort Albany was named Fort Saint-Anne by the French. In 1688 the English sent ships to reestablish their posts but were defeated by French ships that had come to re-supply the forts. In 1693 the English retook the fort and held it thereafter. By the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Albany was to be returned to the French, but nothing was done until war resumed in 1702. In 1709 the French tried and failed to capture the fort. In 1713 the Treaty of Utrecht gave Hudson and James Bays (along with the rest of Rupert's Land) to the English. The Hudson's Bay (Fur) Company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670. The company functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America for nearly 200 years until the Hudson's Bay Company sold the land it owned (the entire Hudson Bay drainage basin, known as Rupert's Land) to Canada in 1869 as part of the Deed of Surrender, authorized by the Rupert's Land Act 1868. During its peak, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of the English, and later British, controlled North America. By the mid-19th century, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling a wide variety of products from furs to fine home ware in a small number of sales shops (as opposed to trading posts) across Canada.

Price: 720 USD

Location: Thousand Oaks, California

End Time: 2024-01-27T22:20:47.000Z

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