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

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1842-1843

pg 42        the river for a distance of about ten leagues, you find the little 
             town of Goshen, which had then about two hundred inhabitants, 
             twenty or twenty-five of whom were Catholics, six leagues 
             farther, that of Leesburg, still smaller in total and in Catholic 
             population; a little more to the south-west, at ten leagues from 
             the Lake, there was also a little Catholic congregation whose 
             centre was at Plymouth; to the east in Michigan was Bertrand, two 
             leagues from St. Mary; a little lower the little town of Niles, 
             which also formed a congregation; four leagues farther the town 
             of Berrieu, where the priest said mass for three families; and 
             six leagues farther on, still on the same river, the town of St. 
             Joseph, which formed one of the finest missions of the country.
                  At twenty-eight leagues, on the way towards Detroit, 
             Kalamazoo is situated, with a population of twelve or fifteen 
             inhabitants, at least a hundred of whom are Catholics.  In 
             Michigan St. Mary's also attended another little congregation of 
             ten or twelve families at Nantowossibi; twenty leagues; another 
             of a few families at Constantine, fifteen leagues; that of Papa, 
             eighteen leagues; that of Kentucky and that of Tepiconse, 
             containing altogether something over two hundred souls.