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ST. JOSEPH COUNTY · AT POINTER STRENGTH, WITH THE SETTLERS NAMED
What it is: the county's own record offices, named here as the seats of the documents this build's narrative legs stand on: the commissioners' record, in which the order of May 6, 1832 forming Olive Township and the incorporation proceedings of 1866 physically stand; the recorder's plat books, in which the 1835 plat and its 1837 extension are the enrolled originals behind Howard's quotation; the clerk's court files; and the St. Joseph County Archives & Records Center, whose holdings the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's volunteers have indexed — the indexing tradition that makes a county archive usable. This pass names the seats at pointer strength and digs no one of them individually; their function in this section is to be named where the pull list and the open file send a checker — to the order book, the plat book, and the file, in the building that holds them.
Principal sources: Howard (1907) for the proceedings these seats hold, read first-hand; the genealogical society's published materials for the archives center's indexing, as carried; the seats named at pointer strength.