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In this "proof of Marquette's writing," the script matches the script on the Marquette Autograph Map. The Boucherville Registry recorded the births, deaths, marriages and baptisms in the Parish of Boucherville on the St. Lawrence River. The Registry is legitimately from Marquette's own time. |
If the first rectangle shown below is presented to us and we are told, "this writing is the same script as on the Marquette Autograph Map," we are prompted to conclusions of the validity of the script on the Autograph Map. At the end of the paragraph is "May 1668." |
| It is a true statement that "the above appears in the Boucherville Registry." Closer investigation, however, shows proof of deceit. Below is how the context of this script actually appears in the Boucherville Registry. It is written at the top of the title page, where it does not appropriately belong. | The 1668 year is chronology before the inclusive period. It begins in 1669. And moreover, as Joseph Carlton Short wrote in a letter to Francis Borgia Steck in the late 1950s, the ink of the "Marquette script" appears much newer and less faded than the other writing (Steck, 1960, p. 193-201) . |
from Marquette Legends, by Father Francis Borgia Steck, annotations in red by Carl J. Weber