Biographical and historical record of Putnam County, Indiana .. . 8|ij£ ,E have now seen the titleof the lands of Indi-ana transferred from* the Indians to theJ United States Govern-ment. The line of the ^ Fort Wayne treaty of 1S09 line as -unexplored regio ^X§*~ cuts the west line of Putnam County••?V; § live ami live-eighths miles north ot7v V^ the southwest corner, and the south. S| pL line seven and seven-eighths miles!£, Past of the same point. The geogra-phies published soon after the dateof the Fort Wayne treaty describedthe country to the northward of thisThe treaty of 1818 extinguishe
Biographical and historical record of Putnam County, Indiana .. . 8|ij£ ,E have now seen the titleof the lands of Indi-ana transferred from* the Indians to theJ United States Govern-ment. The line of the ^ Fort Wayne treaty of 1S09 line as -unexplored regio ^X§*~ cuts the west line of Putnam County••?V; § live ami live-eighths miles north ot7v V^ the southwest corner, and the south. S| pL line seven and seven-eighths miles!£, Past of the same point. The geogra-phies published soon after the dateof the Fort Wayne treaty describedthe country to the northward of thisThe treaty of 1818 extinguished the last vestige of Indiantitle to the soil of Putnam County, and thereign of savagery took its flight forever fromthe forest shades of Central Indiana. In 1819 the land acquired by the latter treatywas surveyed by authority of the generalGovernment, and was put on sale at the landoffice in Terre Haute. Close upon the surveyors followed the pur-chasers and settlers, and on the 18th day ofDecember, 1818, John Colman entered thefirst piece of land own
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