Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts and Archives Department
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Historical Sketch
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Cataloging information
Processed by:
Karen Larson
August 1994
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VOLUME OF COLLECTION: |
3 manuscript boxes |
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COLLECTION DATES: |
1713-1908 |
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PROVENANCE: |
Transfer from Peter Harstad, Executive Directors Office, IHS, 315 W. Ohio St. Indianapolis, Indiana 49202 |
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REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ALTERNATE FORMATS: |
none |
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OTHER FINDING AIDS: |
none |
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RELATED HOLDINGS: |
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ACCESSION NUMBER: |
1994.0829 |
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NOTES: |
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The Hyacinth Lasselle Family lived in Indiana in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. Hyacinth Lasselle (1777-1843) was a French trader, a lieutenant, and then major general in the Indiana militia. He married Julia Bosseron, who was the daughter of Francis Bossern a Vincennes fur trader, and the couple had four children Charles, Stanislaus, Hyacinth and Jacques Magloire. Charles B. Lasselle worked as a lawyer in Logansport and Cass County. He was a Democratic member of the Indiana House of Representatives and Senate as well as the Mayor of Logansport. Stanislaus Lasselle was the publisher of the Logansport Canal Telegraph, worked in the dry goods business, and was a captain in the 1st Regiment, Indiana Volunteers in the Mexican War. Hyacinth Lasselle Jr. was a lawyer and merchant in Vincennes and Logansport and the co-publisher of the Logansport Telegraph. Jacques Magloire Lasselle was a lawyer in Logansport, a sergent in the 1st Regiment of Indiana Volunteers during the Mexican War, and Judge on the Cass County Probate Court.
Source: Pumroy, Eric and Brockman, Paul. A Guide to Manuscript Collections of the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana State Library. Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, 1986
The collection includes about 800 French language documents from the Lasselle Collection of the Indiana Division of the Indiana State Library. These personal and business papers of the Hyacinth Lasselle family were transcribed and translated into English by Liliane Krasean for the Indiana Historical Society.
The first box and part of the second contain transcripts of the original documents in the Lasselle collection and are arranged chronologically from 1713-1809. Boxes two and three contain translations of these transcripts and are arranged in the same manner. For each folder of transcripts there is a corresponding folder of translations.
BOX 1: Transcripts
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FOLDER |
CONTENTS |
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1 |
Transcript, 1713-1774 |
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2 |
Transcript, 1775-1780 |
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3 |
Transcript, 1781-1785 |
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4 |
Transcript, 1786-1787 |
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5 |
Transcript, 1788-1794 |
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6 |
Transcript, 1795-1798 |
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7 |
Transcript, 1799-1800 |
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8 |
Transcript, 1801 |
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9 |
Transcript, 1802 |
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10 |
Transcript, January-July 1803 |
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11 |
Transcript, August-December, 1803 |
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12 |
Transcript, January-August, 1804 |
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13 |
Transcript, September-December, 1804 |
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14 |
Transcript, January-July, 1805 |
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15 |
Transcript, August-December, 1805 |
BOX 2: Transcripts 1806-1809; Translations 1713-1801
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FOLDER |
CONTENTS |
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1 |
Transcript, January-July 1806 |
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2 |
Transcript, August-December 1806 |
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3 |
Transcript, January-September 1807 |
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4 |
Transcript, October-December 1807 |
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5 |
Transcript, 1808 |
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6 |
Transcript, January-August 1809 |
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7 |
Transcript, September-December 1809 |
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8 |
Translation, 1713-1774 |
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9 |
Translation, 1775-1780 |
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10 |
Translation, 1781-1785 |
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11 |
Translation, 1786-1787 |
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12 |
Translation, 1788-1794 |
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13 |
Translation, 1795-1798 |
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14 |
Translation, 1799-1800 |
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15 |
Translation, 1801 |
BOX 3: Translations 1802-1809
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FOLDER |
CONTENTS |
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1 |
Translation, 1802 |
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2 |
Translation, January-July 1803 |
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3 |
Translation, August-December 1803 |
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4 |
Translation, January-August 1804 |
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5 |
Translation, September-December 1804 |
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6 |
Translation, January-July 1805 |
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7 |
Translation, August-December 1805 |
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8 |
Translation, January-July 1806 |
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9 |
Translation, August-December 1806 |
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10 |
Translation, January-September 1807 |
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11 |
Translation, October-December 1807 |
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12 |
Translation, 1808 |
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13 |
Translation, January-August 1809 |
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14 |
Translation, September-December 1909 |
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