Chatard, Francis Silas Bishop of Vincennes, Indianapolis, Indiana, to Monsignor Robert Seton, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1884 March 10

He thanks Seton for his letter. His Vicar General, Father August Bessonies is of good family, and is connected by marriage with M. Certes of the Propagation, and has been 43 years in the diocese. Miss M.P. Thompson of the Catholic World, while writing her articles in the south of France, discovered some curious information. Chatard's great grandfather who came out to Santo Domingo evidently enjoyed the advantages of education as results from his letters in Chatard's possession. Thompson found a Pierre Chatard, Canon of the Diocese of Limoges in 1458; also a Guillaume Chatard at the court of the Due de Bourbon. She also came across a Chatard de Rochedagoux who fought at Poitiers in 1387. Chatard has communicated this information to his cousin Alfred Chatard in Paris and he will probably look the matter up. :: II-1-b A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.