Peter Pond

Peter Pond (January 18, 1739 or 1740 – 1807) was born in Milford, Connecticut. He was a soldier with a Connecticut regiment, a fur trader, a founding member of the North West Company and the Beaver Club, an explorer and a cartographer.

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