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

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1858

pg 321            The Bishop of Vincennes hesitated, deferred the matter from 
             week to week, and finally gave the new Bishop of Fort Wayne a 
             general title to whatever property he possessed in northern 
             Indiana, leaving F. Sorin without a title to the seventy-five 
             acres in question.  The South Bend lawyers saw in this something 
             that it would not be becoming here to attribute to a Bishop.
                  It became necessary to write to the new Bishop who on his 
             visit in March gave a deed to correct the famous error; but that 
             this new document might be of any account, it was requisite that 
             the deed from the Bishop of Vincennes to the Bishop of Fort Wayne 
             should itself be recorded, to prove that he was the rightful 
             owner.  The good Bishop was humbly entreated, twice, to have the 
             kindness to send his general title.  Finally, on the week when he 
             was starting the Council, he had his Vicar General to write that 
             he would not send it before his return from Cincinnati.  The 
             affair now looked mysterious to the administration of Notre Dame, 
             and it was left in the hands of Providence.