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1821–1828 — Chicago, St. Joseph, and the Michigan Road, answered plainly
Chicago, 29 August 1821: The Treaty of Chicago took from the Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi a great tract in present Michigan, its southern line running to the Indiana boundary country west of this county. It ceded no Allen County land and extinguished no Miami title; it appears in this section only to be excluded on the record, because its name recurs in summaries of the region's cessions.
St. Joseph, 1828: There is no Miami cession treaty of 1828. The 1828 instrument in the series is the Potawatomi treaty at St. Joseph (20 September 1828), a Michigan-country cession that likewise took no part of this ground. The Miami series runs 1826 to 1834 with nothing between, and any Fort Wayne chronology that prints an 1828 Miami treaty is repeating an error.
The Michigan Road: The Potawatomi treaty of 16 October 1826 — signed the same council season as Paradise Springs — granted Indiana a road from Lake Michigan to Indianapolis, with a section of land for every mile of it to pay for the building. But the Michigan Road ran from Michigan City through South Bend and Logansport to Indianapolis, a full county and more west of Fort Wayne, and its granted sections were selected along that line. No Michigan Road land lay in Allen County. The road matters here only as the measure of what the canal grant did for this town that the road grant did for South Bend.
Sources: Treaty of Chicago, 1821, 7 Stat. 218; Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1828 (St. Joseph), 7 Stat. 317; Treaty with the Potawatomi, 16 October 1826, 7 Stat. 295 (the road and section-per-mile grant); the road's surveyed route as carried in the Indiana historical record.