. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . or Jennings to meet with theother commissioners in the New Ptirchase. Theyhad with them a black servant boy, a tent andplenty of baken and coffy. At Vallonia theypicked tip two other members of the Durham and General Bartholomew, andalso two unofficial persons wdio were going outto look at the country. On ]\Ionday. the 22d,after five days traveling, they reached WilliamConners, the prescribed meeting ])
. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . or Jennings to meet with theother commissioners in the New Ptirchase. Theyhad with them a black servant boy, a tent andplenty of baken and coffy. At Vallonia theypicked tip two other members of the Durham and General Bartholomew, andalso two unofficial persons wdio were going outto look at the country. On ]\Ionday. the 22d,after five days traveling, they reached WilliamConners, the prescribed meeting ])lace, which isdescribed as a ])rairie of about two htindred fiftyacres of the White river bottom, with a numberof Indian huts near the house. By noon of thenext day all the commissioners except WilliamPrince, of Gibson county, were present, and they CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA 79 proceeded with their work. The probabihties arethat they viewed Conners prairie as a possiblesite, and also the Finch settlement, three milesabove. The Journal does not say so, but FabiusM. Finch, in the Reminiscences cited above,states that they visited his fathers place. From. Old Constitutional Elm Tree at Corydon, still this tree it is said the first constitution ofIndiana was adopted, on June 29, 1816. Conners they followed the river down to the set-tlement at the mouth of Fall creek, and afterviewing that place, passed on down to the Whet-zel settlement. The commissioners and the visit-ing members of the party, of whom there wereseveral besides Governor Jennings, seem to haveprospected to and fro between these points inseparate groups, but finally they all met again onSaturday, the 27th, at the cabin of John McCor-mick, which stood below Fall creek on the highground just above where Washington street meetsthe river, and agreed upon the Fall creek the government survey was not completed,i however, the tract could not be specifically de-j scribed. Judge Wil
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