Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1841-1842

pg 21        proposed to visit one of the places with F. Sorin, at 
             Francisville on the Wabash river, four miles from Vincennes.  The 
             location did not please F. Sorin, what the request of His 
             Lordship started that evening with a priest of the diocese, the 
             Rev. Mr. Delaune, to examine another farm of one hundred and 
             sixty acres called St. Peter's [St. Pierre's] situated twenty-
             seven miles from Vincennes between Washington and Mount Pleasant.  
             It was a place difficult of access, but in the midst of several 
             Catholic parishes.  It was even one of the oldest missions of the 
             diocese.
St. Peter's       F. Sorin arrived there Tuesday morning about 9 o'clock.  St. 
Oct 14.      Peter's had a little frame church in good repair; two little rooms 
The Bishop   had been added to it, one for the sacristy and one for the 
gives 160    priest.  A little further on were two old log shanties such as 
acres of     are quite common in this country, one answering for kitchen and 
land.        the other used as a school.  The school was taught by a certain 
             Chas Rother, a young German who wished to become a Brother and 
             whom the Bishop had sent there whilst waiting for the Brothers.  
             Thus he had been living with Mr. Delaune at St. Peter's for some 
             time.  Although there was no engagement entered into for the