Scope and Content

Newspaper clippings, obituaries, memorial cards, manuscripts, and a few letters involving members of the Coquillard family and Rev. Edward Sorin, CSC.

Scope and Content Records of the Society such as minutes from meetings (1895-1970) and lists of holdings; ledgers, journals, and records of such early explorers and residents of the area as Captain Josiah Bartlett of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, John Brownfield, William Burnett, Marvin Campbell, Lathrop Minor Taylor, Horatio Chapman, Schuyler Colfax, Alexis Coquillard, and Alonzo Delano, a merchant from Mishawaka; records of local companies, including S. Hanna & Co., T.B. Roberts & Co., and George Wyman...

Scope and Content

Correspondence with Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, Alexis Coquillard, trader in South Bend, Edward Sorin, CSC, president of the University of Notre Dame, and others, pertaining mostly to business affairs, the second Indian removal from the area in 1840, and Marantette's claims arising from it; and Marentette's account book, 1838-1840.