- Date
- 1915
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- Modern era
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Summary
Volume 39 of Michigan Historical Collections contains a 1915 footnote that attributes a mission list to Frederic Baraga through Verwyst’s Life of Bishop Baraga. The list describes “Beaver Island, with fifty-five Christians” and notes Castor Island as its manuscript name.
This entry preserves the attestation chain exactly: a 1915 historical compilation → Verwyst’s biography → a quoted Baraga list. It supports the fact that this published chain reports a Beaver Island Catholic mission and the Castor label. It does not establish when the list was made, that fifty-five was the island’s total population, the identity of those people, or a complete church history. Primary manuscript or mission-register research remains needed.
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- Described in this archive: Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society collections corpus.Printed page image checked. In a footnote to an article on Father Frank Pierz, the volume says that Verwyst's *Life of Bishop Baraga*, p. 145, quotes a Baraga mission list including “Beaver Island, with fifty-five Christians” and parenthetically identifies the manuscript form as Castor Island. This is a 1915 mediated quotation, not a contemporaneous enumeration, transcript of Baraga's manuscript, or complete population record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Michigan Historical Collections, volume 39, 1915”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/michigan-historical-collections-volume-39/, accessed [date], citing Michigan Historical Commission, *Michigan Historical Collections*, vol. 39 (Lansing: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1915), p. 230, Internet Archive item michiganhistoric39mich_0..
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