Northern Indiana Historical Society, South Bend, Indiana
Saint Joseph County (Ind.) Records (SJO), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Early Saint Joseph County records as compiled by various town officials, 1829-1865; including a 1829 field survey of the area, early court records, and records of the County clerk, auditor, Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer; also a list of grave plots in Saint Joseph County compiled in 1939 by the WPA.
Index :
Saint Joseph County (Ind.) Cemeteries -- Indiana -- Saint Joseph County.
Includes brief descriptions of the nature of the landscape, vegetation, features such as swamps, creeks, and prairies.
Index at 002 (individual cases not indexed), includes early records 1831-35 and various court clerk's dockets. Court records begin with October term, 1832.
Description card at 001, cases begin with 1833 includes estate inventory lists, records of the settlement of the estate of Samuel Bennett, of which Lathrop Taylor was the administrator, index to judgements at 006, index to clerk's docket for 1858-59 term at 039.
List of contents at 003, mostly dockets.
Includes list of white male inhabitants over age 20 in the county as of August 24, 1830 at 003, followed by a typescript copy; cards containing descriptions of papers on the remainder of the reel at 007 and 012, mostly bonds for retail licenses; some marriage licenses at 016; records of livestock brands and index at 017.
Listing of contents at 001, includes papers relating to County Seminary, county jail, lists of justices of the peace and sheriffs 1842-44. Seminary papers include specifications and bids for a building, 1844; specifications for 1844 jail at 046.
Various county and township election records, description cards at 002.