Company. His son Benjamin Gillam (1662/63-1706) appears in the records only in reference to the 1682 events at Port Nelson. On 21 June 1682 he left Boston for Hudson Bay in Bachelor's Delight intending to break into the HBC monopoly. On reaching Port Nelson he was soon joined by a French group under Radisson and then by his father's official HBC expedition. His father died in October and Benjamin was captured by the French in February. He was taken to Quebec, released and returned to Boston. Here he was briefly arrested for violating the monopoly but was soon released. The HBC later claimed him for its own and based its claim to Port Nelson on the grounds that Benjamin had arrived before the French party. In 1690 the family appears in the records as shipbuilders for English Merchants. References Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Arthur S. Morton, 'A History of the Canadian West to 1870-71', no date, but circa 1940 1636 births 1682 deaths Hudson's Bay Company people