Panet Jean Antoine 1751-1815 Practised As An Advocate And Notary
in Montreal, represented Quebec in the Legislature, 1792, and presented
a petition from the citizens of Quebec for the abolition of slavery.
First Speaker of the Legislature of Quebec; appointed judge of the Court
of Common Pleas by Lord Dorchester, 1793, but resigned almost
immediately and re-elected to the Legislature of Lower Canada where he
sat until 1815; appointed a member of the Legislative Council, 1815.