. Indiana Historical Society publications . eprobably reset all his mile posts and half mile posts, chains, and made them section and half section cornerposts, in order to adjust them to the Ime he ran north fromFreemans corner in what is now Perry county. He reversedhis base Ime and thus threw the chains on the Freemanline in Illmois, thus vShowing that he regarded the crossingat the Orange and Dubois county line as his initial brings out a point of unusual interest. In southernIndiana, sections were first numbered, under our rectangularsurvey system, where the base l
. Indiana Historical Society publications . eprobably reset all his mile posts and half mile posts, chains, and made them section and half section cornerposts, in order to adjust them to the Ime he ran north fromFreemans corner in what is now Perry county. He reversedhis base Ime and thus threw the chains on the Freemanline in Illmois, thus vShowing that he regarded the crossingat the Orange and Dubois county line as his initial brings out a point of unusual interest. In southernIndiana, sections were first numbered, under our rectangularsurvey system, where the base line crosses the county linebetween Orange and Dubois counties. Until this point wasfound Buckingham did not use the term section. Evi-dently the intention was to make the east line of Duboiscounty the line of the Second Principal Meridian, whichwas to start north from the southeast corner of the Vin-cennes Tract, for he ran that line north just as a , surveyors began on the base line and re-marked the 416 Trails and Surveys onn u. OUTLINE 5 OT SkouHO^ IheMstiiib assubdwidt|-| sune^,[ysOia;wUk mh mm, tndioflkEJtenczer Budcitwham,Jran Ike i m- POMfllN. PLATE 10. Trails and Surveys 417 meridian line south, marking section and half section cor-ners and recording witness trees, and numbering them fromthe base line south as they went. In surveying what is now the east line of Dubois countyfor a meridian line, Mr. Buckingham made this record: ^Beginning with the MERIDIAN LINE at the southeastcorner of the Vincennes Tract, as established by Mr. Free-man, etc. In September, 1805, Buckingham extended his base lineeast from the Vincennes Tract to a point twelve miles fromthe Dubois and Orange county line, and then ran NORTHto the north line of the VINCENNES TREATY line of Au-gust, 1804, which had been surveyed from the VincennesTract to Clarks grant, in July, 1805, by William last north and south line was finally selected and namedthe SECOND PRINCIPAL ME
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