Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts and Archives Department

LASSELLE COLLECTION, 1713-1809


Collection #
M 0435


Table of Contents

Collection Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Box and Folder Listing
Cataloging information

Processed by:
Karen Larson
August 1994


COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:

3 manuscript boxes

COLLECTION DATES:

1713-1908

PROVENANCE:

Transfer from Peter Harstad, Executive Directors Office, IHS, 315 W. Ohio St. Indianapolis, Indiana 49202

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE FORMATS:

none

OTHER FINDING AIDS:

none

RELATED HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION NUMBER:

1994.0829

NOTES:

 


HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

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


SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

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 AND FOLDER LIST

BOX 1: Transcripts

FOLDER

CONTENTS

1

Transcript, 1713-1774

2

Transcript, 1775-1780

3

Transcript, 1781-1785

4

Transcript, 1786-1787

5

Transcript, 1788-1794

6

Transcript, 1795-1798

7

Transcript, 1799-1800

8

Transcript, 1801

9

Transcript, 1802

10

Transcript, January-July 1803

11

Transcript, August-December, 1803

12

Transcript, January-August, 1804

13

Transcript, September-December, 1804

14

Transcript, January-July, 1805

15

Transcript, August-December, 1805

 

BOX 2: Transcripts 1806-1809; Translations 1713-1801

FOLDER

CONTENTS

1

Transcript, January-July 1806

2

Transcript, August-December 1806

3

Transcript, January-September 1807

4

Transcript, October-December 1807

5

Transcript, 1808

6

Transcript, January-August 1809

7

Transcript, September-December 1809

8

Translation, 1713-1774

9

Translation, 1775-1780

10

Translation, 1781-1785

11

Translation, 1786-1787

12

Translation, 1788-1794

13

Translation, 1795-1798

14

Translation, 1799-1800

15

Translation, 1801

 

BOX 3: Translations 1802-1809

FOLDER

CONTENTS

1

Translation, 1802

2

Translation, January-July 1803

3

Translation, August-December 1803

4

Translation, January-August 1804

5

Translation, September-December 1804

6

Translation, January-July 1805

7

Translation, August-December 1805

8

Translation, January-July 1806

9

Translation, August-December 1806

10

Translation, January-September 1807

11

Translation, October-December 1807

12

Translation, 1808

13

Translation, January-August 1809

14

Translation, September-December 1909

 


CATALOGING INFORMATION

For additional information on this collection, including a list of subject headings that may lead you to related materials:

  1. Go to the Indiana Historical Society's online catalog
  2. Click on the "Local Catalog" icon.
  3. Search for the collection by its call number, using the letter or letters designation and four digits (e.g., M 0715, SC 2234).
  4. When you find the collection, go to the "Holdings" screen for a list of headings that can be searched for related materials.

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