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  Peter Pond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Pond (18 January 1739 or 1740 1807) was born in Milford, Connecticut.
From his notes and diaries Peter Pond drew map showing rivers and lakes of the Athabasca region, including what was known of the whole area from Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains and interpolating his information to the Arctic Ocean or Northwest Passage.
Peter Pond had contributed to the mapping of Canada by drawing the general outline of the river basin that Mackenzie recorded in 1789.
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 AllRefer.com - Peter Pond (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Peter Pond 1740–1807, American fur trader and explorer of the Old Northwest, b.
Pond is best known for his maps of the country covered in his voyages, which he presented to Congress.
The accusations that Pond was guilty of violence, dishonesty, and lawlessness appear at least partly unjust.
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 Peter Pond -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He took the initiative to follow up on Ponds belief and canoed that river, now called the (A Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea) Mackenzie River, which did in fact flow to (Ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs) Arctic Ocean.
Peter Pond had contributed to the mapping of Canada by drawing the general outline of the (The entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries) river basin that Mackenzie recorded in 1789.
The maps that Peter Pond subsequently drew, based on his explorations and on the information provided to him by (Click link for more info and facts about First Nations) First Nations peoples, ultimately gained him international recognition at the end of the 18th century.
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 Peter Pond Society
Pond was one of the original partners of the North West Company until his implication in two murders forced him to withdraw from the trade and retire to his native Connecticut in 1790.
Peter Pond doubtless saw the same view in 1778 as the first white man to confront the Clearwater River.
The only visible acknowledgement to Peter Pond in Milford, CT, the town where he was born and died, is on the nation's bicentennial marker on the town green.
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 Peter Pond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From his notes and diaries Peter Pond drew map showing rivers and lakes of the Athabasca region, including what was know ofthe whole area from Hudson Bay to the Rocky Mountains and interpolatinghis information to the Arctic Ocean or Northwest Passage.
Peter Pond had contributed to the mapping of Canada by drawing thegeneral outline of the river basin that Mackenzie recorded in 1789.
The maps that Peter Pond subsequently drew, based on his explorations and on the information provided to him by First Nations peoples, ultimately gained him international recognition at the endof the 18th century.
www.therfcc.org /peter-pond-75088.html   (443 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Pond’s was the larger and was built around the more sizeable Montreal houses, such as those of the Frobishers and Simon McTavish; Waddens was acting for an association of smaller houses, such as those of Forrest Oakes* and John Ross.
Pond seems to have had one of the 16 shares in the 1779 company, and in his absence he was allotted one share in the 1783—84 organization.
Pond’s maps and suggested course of the waters of Athabasca are enduring testaments to him as a pioneer in the last great fur-bearing area of North America.
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 ExplorersbyLand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Peter Pond was one of the earliest notable explorers to venture to the far western reaches of the continent.
Pond, a New Englander and member of the militia, devoted himself at the age of 25, in 1765, to a life of exploring the Canadian west.
Thus a link is established: Peter Pond was the exploration "father" of Alexander Mackenzie, whose views were accepted and later defended by Alexander Henry, who, befriending John Jacob Astor, led the American to his own grand scheme of a fur trading empire in the west.
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 Cape Cod Camping at Peters Pond Park, a Sandwich, MA Campground : Home Page
Peters Pond Park, one of the finest Cape Cod Campgrounds, is situated along the shores of a beautiful spring-fed lake.
Peters Pond is a great place to have a family reunion, a church outing, or a company picnic.
Peters Pond Park is situated along the shores of a beautiful spring-fed lake.
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 Clash of Worlds.rtf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1778, when Peter Pond ascended the height of the land at Methye Portage and was greeted by the expansive beauty of the Clearwater Valley; it marked the end of the ancient confederation of Denendeh which had quietly thrived in obscurity and isolation.
Pond's fort in the Eagle Hills, specifically at the junction of the Sturgeon and Saskatchewan Rivers, would be burnt to the ground, and he and this unworthy band of renegade traders were forced to flee from Indian territories (MacGregor, 1949: 149).
It seems likely that Peter Pond encountered a similar situation in the Athabasca, and one could speculate that he would not be adverse to engaging in a similar pillaging of the corpses, regardless of whether debts were owed.
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 Peter Pond - Mapping the Northwest - 18th Century - Pathfinders and Passageways
Peter Pond was born in Milford, Connecticut, around 1739.
A violent and ambitious man, Peter Pond contributed to the mapping of Canada by drawing the general outline of the river basin that Mackenzie, heavily influenced by his predecessor, recorded in 1789.
Pond proposing some advantage to himself from publishing it hereafter with a detailed account, had requested care may be taken to prevent its getting into other hands, than those of the King's Ministers.
www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/h24-1620-e.html   (1173 words)

  
 Water Garden Fish Pond Landscaping Pictures Features Solutions Designs Ideas
Ensure your pond or water garden feature (it could be a simple fountain or stream or waterfall disappearing below ground) is away from trees (especially deciduous trees that lose their leaves in Autumn) or prevailing winds that may carry poisonous leaves into the pond.
Ponds closer to the house tend to be more formal, further away the water garden pond can be more natural looking.
The larger ponds are, the steadier is the balance the ponds maintain.
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 PETER POND AND THE ATHABASCA COUNTRY
Pond was a Yankee born on January 18, 1740, the son of a fur-trader of the same name.
Pond pushed on, for the Indians had told him of another big river, which could be reached by a tributary only four miles away, the Clearwater.
Pond finished the portage, to become the first white man known to have crossed from the Hudson’s Bay watershed to the Arctic river system of which the Athabasca and Peace Rivers are a part.
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 Peter Pond Society - Newsletters
This is the story of Peter Pond (1740-1807), an overlooked Connecticut Yankee who was the precursor to Lewis and Clark.
Pond inspired Alexander Mackenzie to become the first white man to reach the Pacific Ocean overland across North America in 1793.
Pond was the first white man to descend the Clearwater in 1778.
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 Pond, Peter on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Royal Roads Intersects Broad Base and Precious Metals at the Daniel's Pond Extension, Tulks North Property, Central Newfoundland.
Peter Doig: Arts Club of Chicago.(survey of the artist's paintings and works on paper made since 1991)
Secret nursery is a gardener's treasure trove; Peter Surridge meets the founders and new owners of a delightful Dutton nursery.(Features)
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 East Hampton Star - In the News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
All of the coastal ponds are in retreat.
When the pond is let in the fall, the adult alewives and their young-of-the year fingerlings run back out to sea.
The pond also supports a sizable fish population, the mainstays of which are white perch and whitebait, a brackish water silverside.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
(Pond was not trading with the “common concern” of Henry, Pangman, Paterson, Jean-Baptiste Cadot, and James Finlay.) At Dauphin Lake there was plenty of buffalo meat available, and he was in a position to intercept Indians bound for Cumberland House.
On 9 Jan. 1792 “Captain” Peter Pond and William Steedman were instructed by the American secretary of War to go to Niagara and Detroit to seek from warring Indians a request for peace [see Michikinakoua].
Innis, “The North West Company,” CHR, 8 (1927): 308—21; “Peter Pond and the influence of Capt. James Cook on exploration in the interior of North America,” RSC Trans., 3rd ser., 22 (1928), sect.ii: 131—41; “Peter Pond in 1780,” CHR, 9 (1928): 333; “Some further material on Peter Pond,” CHR, 16 (1935): 61—64.
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 creatures
Peter opened the gate and ran into the meadow, quietly singing a song to himself.
Peter was paying attention however and he saw the cat creeping out into the meadow, ever so quietly.
Peter tied one end of the rope to the tree branch and the other end into a loop.
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 Peter Pond - La cartographie du Nord-Ouest - XVIIIe siècle - Les Voies de la découverte
Né à Milford, au Connecticut, vers 1739, Peter Pond, après une brève carrière militaire, va rejoindre son père à Détroit, en 1765, pour y pratiquer la traite des fourrures.
Pond se joint alors à Alexander Henry et hiverne au lac Dauphin, connu depuis La Vérendrye, alors que Thomas Frobisher et Charles Paterson (autre marchand indépendant) remontent la Saskatchewan.
I transmit a Sketch of the North Western parts of this Continent, communicated by Peter Pond, an Indian Trader from this province, shewing his discoveries, the track pursued, and the stations occupied by him and his party, during an excursion of several years, [...] Mr.
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 pond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was the son of Peter Pond Sr.and Mary Hubbard born in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut.
The Pond family arrived in North America at Conneticut in the 1640's, they were the ancestors of Peter.
In 1765 Peter Pond II was at a peace council at Detroit with 11 Dakota Chiefs present and from about 1766 to 1773 he traded near the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
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 April 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Whenever I've read excerpts that Peter Pond had written, in his poorly spelled, but observant manner, I wondered who he was.
Peter Pond then spent six years trading around the headwaters of the Mississippi River.
Peter Pond eventually returned to Connecticut and died there in 1807.
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 PETER POND: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Two versions of Pond's narrative of his early life as a fur trader and soldier in the "Northwest" and along the St. Peter's (Minnesota) River; fur trade accounts used at Grand Portage, 1773-1775, by Pond and his partner Felix Graham; and a list of supplies to be used by Pond and Greves, Grand Portage (1775).
Nathan G. Pond and R. McLaughlan, as the "Journal of `Sir' Peter Pond," in the Connecticut Magazine 10:239-259 (June 1906); and as a section of "The British Regime in Wisconsin," edited by Reuben G. Thwaites, in Wisconsin Historical Collections 18:314-354 (Madison, 1908).
Pond and Greeves, Grand Portage, 22d July, 1775." The original is in the Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo, N.Y. (accession no. 3575A).
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 The Canoe, The Trapper and Milford, Ct.
Pond (1740 -1807), a shoemaker’s son and the oldest of eight children, fought in four French and Indian War campaigns.
Pond was not in the vicinity at the time.
Pond was replaced at Athabasca by Alexander MacKenzie, a young, ambitious man of Scottish descent.
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 Peter Pond - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The View From Shanty Pond : An Irish Immigrant's Look at Life in a New England Mill Town 1875-1938
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond (Peter Shandy Mysteries)
Pond Basics: A Step-by-Step Guide for Water Gardeners
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 Pond Liner Sources at Koipondcentral.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 University of Wisconsin History Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Web Editor's Note: This excerpt from the memoir of Connecticut-born fur trader Peter Pond is a direct transcription of his writing, spelling errors and all.
Pond wrote English in phonetic style, and the student who can read through his unorthodox spelling will find Pond was a shrewd observor of life at Mackinac, Prairie du Chien, and Green Bay just before the American Revolution.
While we ware on the Portage one of my men Informed me that thare was an Indan from St. Peters River that was in Morneing for his Departed friend and Wished meto take of the Morneing for he had Worn it long anuf I Desired he mite Cum to me which was Dun.
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 Oakcrest Cove on Peters Pond Home
Oakcrest Cove on Peter's Pond invites you to stay with them during your Cape Cod vacation.
Oakcrest Cove is located in Forestdale along the shores of a beautiful spring-fed lake, Peter's Pond.
Overlooking Peter's Pond is Oakcrest Cove's cozy and inviting lodge, a magical setting for weddings, reunions and corporate retreats, as well as other events and celebrations.
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 pond listing
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Peter POND (1740-1807) was born in Connecticut to a family of fur traders.
The powers are all Indian tribes, who might have been fully powerful enough to stage their own Diplomacy game if Peter Pond and his race had not stepped in.
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 Fourteenth Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pond and Elizabeth Ann Pattorff were married in Unknown.
Peter M. Pond and Elizabeth Ann Pattorff had the following children:
Ella Pond was born on March 16, 1868.
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