Description
A prisoner of the Hudson’s Bay Company, La Grasse was accused with two other men of the massacre of 11 Hare Indians in what is currently Canada. He was transported to London to be held until passage could be found for him to Montreal, where he would stand trial. He was held at Clerkenwell prison until March 1838, during which time he was visited by Mississauga Ojibwe preacher Rev. Peter Jones during his 1837 visit to Britain.
Bibliographic sources
“Horrid Massacre,” Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 16 October 1837, 7; “Police,” The Globe, 23 March 1838, 4.