In a message dated 09/07/00 3:02:30 PM Central Daylight Time, jmaceach@cbnet.ns.ca writes: << Just wondering if anyone on the list, knows anything about a Isaac Batt, who was possibly a fur trader in Hudson Bay back about 1700's. He was an ancestor in my Spence genealogy ,and he was possibly French, Isaac Batt married a Native Woman somewhere in the areas of Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks, Liz MacEachern >> I doubt a French man would be with Hudson Bay Co. most of the Voyagures came out of Quebec and were in Huron and Iroquie country. If he was with the Bay he could very well be from the Hebridies a lot of them went with the company and many married natives because they had so much in common with the clan system and all. DaveM.