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He was elected to the Beaver Club in 1791. In 1795, Gregory was made a partner in McTavish, Frobisher and Company. Gregory retired from trade in 1806 and died in 1817 at Woodland, his home in Montreal.|Henry Mackenzie was born in 1781 in Achnaclerach, Contin, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.\n\nHe was a seigneurial agent, fur trader, merchant, Justice of the Peace, and militia officer. Henry McKenzie, a lesser-known figure, was the brother of Roderick, Donald, and James, and a cousin of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. He moved to Lower Canada shortly before 1800 and was hired as a clerk at Grand Portage, Minnesota. In 1803, he settled close to Montreal in the seigneury of Terrebonne, which belonged to Simon McTavish. He helped him manage it and as a seigneurial agent, he established contacts with grain dealers and exporters. In 1806, he obtained a commission as Justice of the Peace for the district of Montreal. At the beginning of the War of 1812, he joined the Terrebonne battalion of the militia as a major and later was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. In 1814, he purchased 2 of the 19 shares of McTavish, McGillivrays and Co. and became one of the partners of the Michilimackinac Company. In 1815, McGillivray put him in charge of public relations for the North West Company. The same year he joined the Beaver Club. He was a member of the Scotch Presbyterian congregation in Montreal, serving as its vice-chairman in 1819 and 1822, and chairman in 1823 and 1825.\n\nIn 1815, he married Ann Bethune, daughter of John Bethune and sister of Angus Bethune. He died on June 28, 1832, in Montreal, Quebec."},{"label":"Name access points","value":["Gregory, John, 1751-1817.","McKenzie, Henry, 1781-1832"]},{"label":"Place access points","value":["Montréal (Québec)"]},{"label":"Content summary","value":"File consists of a letter from John Gregory to Henry Mackenzie, asking him to collect a debt for him from Charles Vaudry."},{"label":"Provenance","value":"These records were accumulated by Roderick Mackenzie and eventually inherited by the husband of Mackenzie's granddaughter, Louis-Rodrigue Masson. The were kept in the Masson family into the 1990s at which point they were purchased by a Montreal-area book collector. They were at some point sold to bookseller Warren Baker."},{"label":"Physical description","value":"1 sheet ; 24.9 x 19.9 cm"},{"label":"Repository","value":["Rare Books and Special Collections"]},{"label":"Level of description","value":["File"]},{"label":"Source of title","value":"Title based on content of file."},{"label":"Title","value":"Letter from John Gregory to Henry McKenzie"},{"label":"Date","value":"29 January 1805"},{"label":"Fond","value":["Roderick Mackenzie-Masson Collection"]},{"label":"Language","value":["English","French"]}],"description":"Letter from John Gregory to Henry McKenzie","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/09fc03f4-0c0f-45bc-ad7f-03274b6c4738/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-14-000","height":4789,"width":6117,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/20107027-6265-47e2-aba6-52de3151f4a4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/20107027-6265-47e2-aba6-52de3151f4a4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":4789,"width":6117},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/09fc03f4-0c0f-45bc-ad7f-03274b6c4738/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/20107027-6265-47e2-aba6-52de3151f4a4/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/09fc03f4-0c0f-45bc-ad7f-03274b6c4738/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"rbsc_masson-coll_RBDMSG-472-2-14-001","height":6117,"width":4789,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/95c72fa5-3d0d-4a4e-a443-4bb9616b90bc/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/95c72fa5-3d0d-4a4e-a443-4bb9616b90bc","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":2048,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":6117,"width":4789},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/09fc03f4-0c0f-45bc-ad7f-03274b6c4738/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/95c72fa5-3d0d-4a4e-a443-4bb9616b90bc/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/20107027-6265-47e2-aba6-52de3151f4a4/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/mcgill/iiif/logo"}