Sorry, I thought I remembered something was wrong with the article Paul -----Original Message----- From: Suzanne Sommerville Paul, Al Trudeau forwarded your posting about the burial records now on the FCHSM website. Thank you. I noticed that someone then provided a link to Rushforth's 2003 Panis article. Feel free to post the following comments: That is an article I critiqued back in 2005. I also critiqued his 2006 article about the Renards / Fox, and his 2012 book, Bonds of Alliance. He has seen all of my comments. This is one of the errors I pointed out to him back in 2005. It endures in the 2012 book (and its 2013 paperback or electronic version) as do a number of other serious errors, although I wrote to both publishers demonstrating his errors. This is a good example of the kind of thing he does: "In 2003, he even transformed a French minor nobleman and military captain into a farmer at Lachine, claiming Captain Guillaume de Lorimier’s slave [sic] “worked alongside Lorimier and his sons clearing, planting, and harvesting” before 1708.[1] One problem (and not the only one) with this apparent statement of fact is that the first of Lorimier’s sons had died by the age of six before this date; and, although his second son survived to marry in 1730, he would have been only three years old in 1708. So much for Captain de Lorimier “clearing, planting, and harvesting” alongside his sons and his “slave.”[2] Rushforth’s 2012 book repeats this fantasy: “By 1708 [Lorimier acquired] an adolescent he called [sic][3] Joseph. Because Joseph was several years older than the average Indian slave, he worked alongside Lorimier and his sons clearing, planting, and harvesting.”[4] Rushforth obviously paid no attention to the documentation I provided him about this error, first, in 2005, and again in 2006." [1] Rushforth, Panis (2003), paragraph 56. De Lorimier's servant is never identified as a slave, only as a Panis Indian. He married in the Catholic Church an English woman. She was also a servant who most likely had been taken prisoner in an Indian raid and was ransomed by the French. He does not call her "a slave." [2] See the Dictionary of Canadian Biography online for Guillaume de Lorimier de La Rivière, born about 1655, known as seigneur des Bordes (Gâtinais, France), and a member of the “petite noblesse,” minor nobility. [3] Rushforth has the irritating habit of asserting that those who owned slaves “named” them. In fact, whether a name was suggested by an owner or someone else’s decision, including sometimes the baptized, Native Americans received European Christian first names at Baptism and are more likely to have been given the first name of one or both of their godparents. This is only one of the aspects of Catholicism in New France that escapes him. Although I explained this and several other details about the Roman Catholic Church to him, he nevertheless persists in repeating some of his misunderstandings in his 2012 book and adds a few new ones. [4] Rushforth, Bonds, 180. See also my review on the FCHSM web page in which I point out details descendants of the Chesne dit Labutte family (as well as relatives of other French-Canadians) might find distorted and outright wrong. Neither the author nor the publishers saw fit to correct anything when the paperback edition was published in 2013, not even after complimenting my research and saying that would be their intention. http://habitantheritage.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Suzanne_-_Bonds_of_Alliance.1474401.pdf I also have a short article about the Panis and Panisse buried from Ste. Anne de Detroit on the same page as Gail Moreau-DesHarnais's burial transcriptions. Suzanne Boivin Sommerville