Talk:James Secord (merchant)

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Factual inaccuracies

The number of factual inaccuracies in the original article was quite remarkable.

The article should be renamed James Secord as there is no evidence that Badeau was James Secord's middle name. He always appears as James Secord in primary sources and in his wife's many biographies. Badeau appears to have an invention of amateur genealogists.

James's father served in the British Indian Department. He was never a member of Butler's Rangers. Three of his sons (Solomon, Steven & David) also joined the Indian Department but transferred to Butler's Rangers upon its formation, as did two of James Jr.'s uncles and two of his cousins.

The Secord family as a whole could not be described as wealthy, although James's brother David did quite well for himself after the Revolutionary War.

Ambroise Sicard was James Jr.'s great-great-grandfather.

St. Davids not Saint David's.

James had three sisters not one. James, his three sisters, and mother arrived at Fort Niagara in November 1778. Many secondary sources state 1776, however, the primary source on which this is based was written more than eighty years after the Revolutionary War and contains quite a few errors. The Upper Canada Land Petitions submitted by James and his brothers clearly supports a 1778 date.

The story of James wounding at the Battle of Queenston Heights has been embellished by numerous authors. It is highly unlikely that he helped carry Major General Isaac Brock's body off the battlefield, or that Laura interrupted American soldiers about to kill James, or that an American officer intervened.

The article has been revised and expanded. Citations from reliable sources have been added. Griffin's Sword (talk) 17:51, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]