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The audit's test case holds. The Library of Congress catalogue records Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana, published at Philadelphia by M. W. Stokes in 1863 and “engraved, printed & mounted by Chas. Shober” — entered according to Act of Congress in 1863 by M. W. Stokes in the clerk's office of the U.S. District Court for Indiana (LCCN 2013593163; call number G4093.S2G46 1863 .S7). It is a cadastral wall map on six sheets, mounted on linen, 131 × 171 cm: landowners are its subject, with a population statistical table, a distance table, views of residential, public and commercial buildings, and insets of Mishawaka, Lakeville, North Liberty, Osceola, Terre Coupee, West Troy, Plainfield and New Carlisle. No inset serves the future Granger ground, which in 1863 was unplatted farmland in Clay and Harris townships — the map's value to this build is precisely that it names the farmers who held that farmland, section by section, a dozen years before the first atlas. The St. Joseph County Public Library's map case lists the same sheet as “1863 Charles Shober's Map of St. Joseph County, Indiana,” crediting the engraver where the Library of Congress credits the publisher; both attributions stand. The Indiana State Library's county list notes the 1863 map with “property owners indicated” and “ISL does not own” — the surviving consulted copies are the Library of Congress copy and the SJCPL copy. No earlier separately published county map was found in the IU, Allen County Public Library or State Library listings searched; 1863 stands as the first county map on this record.
Sources: Library of Congress item 2013593163 (Stokes/Shober, 1863); Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County Maps list; SJCPL Local & Family History map-case finding aid (as of 20 Dec 2021).