Title: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1809-1847

Call Number: Platteville Mss V

Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (5 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Collected photostat copies and transcripts of papers relating to the early history of the Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, area. Included are an 1809 commission and letters of Indian agent Nicolas Boilvin, 1811-1823, from originals in War Dept. files; letters from agent Thomas P. Burnett from the War Dept. and Indian Office files; letters from Joseph M. Street; a ledger, 1820-1833, kept by Joseph Rolette for the American Fur Company; parish registers of St. Gabriel's Church, 1817-1829, and of Reverend Francois Vincent Badin, 1827-1833; medical record books from Fort Crawford, 1833-1836, and of Dr. B. C. Miller, 1834-35 and 1837-38; and a record of lumber sale accounts from the Chippewa Mill, 1837-1847.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pltv000v

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Acquisition Information

Transcripts and translations of Boilvin letters made by Marian Scanlan and presented Aug. 27, 1942; copies of others presented by Gardner R. Withrow through Peter Scanlan; original of Rolette material owned by Chase Fielding, Washington, D.C.; Rev. Badin's registers taken from originals in St. Mary's College Archives, Montreal; original of St. Gabriel's Church register owned by the church; Fort Crawford medical record book copied from original owned by Mrs. William Bittner, Prairie du Chien, Wis.

	Boilvin, Nicolas
Box   1 Folder   1-3	Letters, 1811-1823. Note: Photostat copies of originals in files of the War Department. Presented 1933 by Gardner Withrow.
Box   1 Folder   4	Commission as Justice of the Peace at Prairie du Chien, signed May 3, 1809 by Nathaniel Pope Physical Description: Negative photostat
Box   2 Volume   1	Transcripts and translations, by Marion Scanlan, of letters and documents sent by or concerning Boilvin, 1811-1823
Box   1 Folder   5-6	Burnett, Thomas P. Papers consisting of letters from the War and Indian offices, letters from J.M. Street, politics, 1829-1845
Box   2 Volume   2-3	Account for medical attendance by Dr. B. O. Miller, 1834-1835, 1837-1838.
Box   2 Volume   4	Sales of lumber for account, Chippewa mill, 1840-1845, 1837-1847
Box   2 Volume   5	Parish register, 1827-1833 Physical Description: Photostat copy  Note: A translation of the first 56 pages of this volume, prepared by James Hansen in 1985, is in a folder in Box 3.
Box   5 Volume   6	Rolette, Joseph. Ledger B kept by Joseph Rolette, agent for the American Fur Company, Prairie du Chien, 1820-1827, with additional memoranda, , 1828-1833 Physical Description: Negative photostat
Box   3	Parish register of St. Gabriel's Church, April, 1817-1829 Physical Description: Photostat
Box   4	Medical record book of Fort Crawford, 1833 July-1836 May 25 Physical Description: Negative photostat