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Baroux, Father Louis, S.S.C., Silver Creek, Michigan, to Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere, Detroit, Michigan, 1852 May 29

 Item
Identifier: CDET III-2-h

Scope and Contents

Baroux has bee waiting for an opportunity to send Lefevere the contract for the Pokagan land. They have given 40 arpents. He has built a spacious house costing about $300. Two workmen came from South Bend, Indiana. The Sisters are also comfortably housed. He has few savages at Pokagan; nearly twenty families are at Brushcreek, Michigan with Sinegowa . For a year Sinegowa has asked him to build them a church; he gave ten arpents of land to Lefevere. Baroux will send the two contracts. He asks permission to build a church similar to that at Pokagan. If they do not build, the savages will feel abandoned. He also asks permission to bless their cemetery. Sinegowa deserves aid. Baroux visits them frequently; they are very poor. Last week he found they had no food, only water. The cemetery at Pokagan is filled, Baroux wants to build a new addition. He asks permission to give benediction six times a year with the fragment of the true cross which they have. He awaits Lefevere's circular letter on the occasion of the new jubilee. :: III-2-h A.L.S. French 4pp. 8vo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1852 May 29

Language of Materials

English.

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