"When Jane Heckenberger, daughter of former Hudson's Bay factor William Hemmings Cook, was convicted on the 19th of February 1853 of contriving and concealing the death of her daughter's natural child, she related the act mainly to social factors: 'She...said she was not well used and that people did not think well of them.' (Public Interest v. Jane Heckenberger, Red River court records." --from Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Families in Indian Country by Jennifer S. H. Brown, UBC Press, 1980

NOTE: Jane was baptized in 1831, on the same date as her wedding to her third husband, Henry Heckenberger.