1800s

19th century 9 dated mentions

1800s

1. 1800–1816
   The 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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2. 1802–1828
   Annuity 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.

   Fort Wayne

3. 1803
   The 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.

   Fort Wayne

4. 1803
   Fort 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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5. 1803–1818
   The 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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6. 1809
   The 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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7. 1809
   The 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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8. 1809
   Fort 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.

   Fort Wayne

9. 1809–1840
   The 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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