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born aboutb 1836 -1902
Alaska Seal and fur Company . Letter from the Secretary of the Interior ,transmitting Deponent says it is within his Knowledge and belief, that about three years ago, one john C Armsworthy, a small trader at Beolfski Alaska Station ,Owed a small bill to the Alaska Commercial Company Agent; that instead of demanding the money the Company Vessel was sent to Belofski from OunAlaska with a deputy Marshall who demanded payment and also Marshall free Amounting to as much more
as the bill that said debtor offered to pay the bill , which was refused unless the fees charged was also paid , whereupon said Armsorthy store was broken into , himself Arrested , put in double Inons, Placed on the company vessel carried about to different station and finally to On Alaska , where he was charged with resisting an officer then taken on board the company steamer Dora , placed in irons , taken to san Francisco , 2,100 miles distant , then send to Sika Alaska nearly 2,000 miles farther, and then LIbeated . his family being left destitute and his besses and property destroyed ,
Notes John Armsworthy T- 6450 Census