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13 dated events in 1800s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 13 dated mentions
1800s
- 1800–1816The later forts
A replacement American fort rose in 1800, and after the War of 1812 Major John Whistler — grandfather of the painter — oversaw construction of the third and last in 1815–16: an all-wood post designed so that a garrison of only 50–75 men could hold it, remembered by its restorers as the most sophisticated wooden fort…
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- 1801–1895The militia years: the county's standing companies, named from organization forward
The county's militia begins as Indiana's does: the Indiana National Guard's own history traces the institution to 1801, when the Indiana Territory organized militia companies to defend the settlements, and the forefathers of the 151st Infantry fought under General William Henry Harrison at Tippecanoe in 1811.
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- 1802John Koker: the Swiss emigrant of 1824, by way of Clay to Harris
The tie, exactly: settler — born in Switzerland in January 1802, a son of Benedict and Mary Koker; came to America in 1824 and lived in Ohio until 1846, then came to this county, living first in Clay Township and removing to Harris in 1847, where his eighty acres lay on Section 22.
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- 1802–1828Annuity day: the agency's ledger
The spine of this era is a paper trail, and much of it survives: the Indian Agency's letter book for 1809–1815, transcribed by Gayle Thornbrough for the Indiana Historical Society in 1961, and Bert Griswold's Fort Wayne, Gateway of the West, 1802–1813 (1927), which prints the garrison orderly books and the agency's account book.
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- 1803The first Treaty of Fort Wayne
It is the opening move of Harrison's treaty system — between 1803 and 1809 he would conclude eleven treaties transferring roughly 30 million acres — and Fort Wayne, seat of the agency and of Wells's interpretership, was one of its regular council grounds.
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- 1803Fort Wayne, 1803: a treaty signed here, about land elsewhere
The transaction: The first treaty that bears this place's name was concluded at the fort on 7 June 1803, between Governor William Henry Harrison and the Delaware, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Eel River, Wea, Kickapoo, Piankashaw and Kaskaskia.
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- 1803–1818The squeeze · the treaty line, 1803–1818
The Fort Wayne treaties of 1803 and 1809 — the second of them Governor Harrison's great purchase, signed at Fort Wayne and Vincennes, which took some three million acres of the Wabash and White River country…
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- 1803–1839Elijah Lineback — the first family, in two tellings
Elijah Lineback, born 1803, of German origin, came with his wife Elizabeth (née Little) and child on horseback through the wilderness — she "was frequently thrown from her horse while on the journey, but never hurt the baby"…
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- 1808George Hassig: Strasburg to Section 16 by way of Stark County
The tie, exactly: settler of the second wave — born at Strasburg, France, on 17 November 1808, a son of John and Barbara Hassig; came to America in 1832 and to Stark County, Ohio…
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- 1809The second Treaty of Fort Wayne
Nearly 1,400 Delaware, Miami, Potawatomi and Eel River people attended the council at the fort in late September 1809.
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- 1809The Treaty of Fort Wayne · three million acres, and the road to Tippecanoe
In late September 1809 nearly 1,400 Delaware, Miami, Potawatomi and Eel River people attended a council at the fort, where Governor William Henry Harrison of Indiana Territory pressed for a cession along the Wabash.
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- 1809Fort Wayne, 1809: three million acres down the Wabash
The transaction: Harrison came back to Fort Wayne in September 1809 and took the largest cession yet from the Miami, Eel River, Delaware and Potawatomi.
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- 1809–1840The cession cascade
Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809); St. Mary's (1818, creating the Big Miami Reserve); Mississinewas (1826, canal right-of-way); Forks of the Wabash (1838, 1840).
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