Colonial Despatches

Soseeah, likely an Anglicized name, is mentioned in this correspondence as an influential chief of one of the Cowichan or Quw'utsun tribes in the Cowichan Region. The same document mentions that he offered his tribe's full cooperation in the hunt for the assassins of Peter Brown, a murdered HBC employee.1

• 1. Douglas to Pakington, 11 November 1852, 933, CO 305/3, 147.