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The 1840 removal from this valley is documented, located, and unread — its archive is named here in full. The located record: the Patrick Marantette Papers (1833–1879) at the Archives of the University of Notre Dame — correspondence with Lewis Cass, Alexis Coquillard, and Edward Sorin, which the finding aid describes as "pertaining mostly to business affairs, the second Indian removal from the area in 1840, and Marantette's claims arising from it," with an account book of 1838–1840 in the same papers. The one dated public fact beside the papers stands in the founder's record: Alexis Coquillard was appointed in 1840 to assist with the Potawatomi removal (the reference record's statement) — the valley's first trader ending his career as a removal agent, and billing, through Marantette's claims, for the work. Everything the row wants beyond this — who was taken in 1840, how many, by what route, from which villages — stands in no open carrier reached: the 1838 Trail of Death is documented to the day (the tribes file), and its fame has a way of swallowing its sequel; the 1840 column is not the 1838 column, and nothing of the earlier march's course is borrowed for it here. The row closes mixed — the record located and its custodian named; its reading outstanding — with settlers named and current: the Marantette Papers read entire, the federal enrolling records for 1840, and the Trail of Death Association's route and camp file for the second removal.
Principal sources: the University of Notre Dame Archives, Patrick Marantette Papers (MAR) finding aid, read November 2026; the founder's reference record for the 1840 appointment; the banked Native Nations lk-removal (the 1838 column, expressly not borrowed).