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

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1842-1843

pg 41        endeared to all that had anything to do with him.  He died at St. 
             Louis on his return from an expedition to the West which he had 
             undertaken with his dear Indians, to whose welfare he had 
             evidently sacrificed his life.
                  During his short residence amongst them he himself baptized 
             more than three hundred, and had had as many as two hundred 
             confirmed at one time in the little building mentioned above 
             as the chapel.  At the arrival of F. Sorin there remained only 
             about two hundred, all the others having been removed at 
Kansas (?)   different periods to Mississippi.(?)  The saintly Mr. Petit was 
             succeeded by a Canadian missionary from Detroit, who spent nearly 
             three years in the country, which he did not edify as his 
             predecessors had done.

                                      3.  The Missions

                  For five or six years the priest of St. Mary of the Lake was 
             accustomed to visit several places in the neighborhood at stated 
             times and to say mass for the people.  Those places were already 
             known as missions, although in some of them there were only one or 
             two Catholic families.  In Indiana, towards the south, ascending