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What a fuller record would require
The tests this section could not run are named, with the records that would run them. The village test's deeper form waits on the General Land Office field notes and plats for Township 36 North, Range 2 East and the township's other congressional ground — the surveyors' own account of villages, trails, clearings and the creek and lake country as they found it — and on the Indian Claims Commission record for the St. Joseph valley at full strength. The stone-walled pits of sections 6 and 8 wait on the State's archaeological record in SHAARD, which may carry site files no county history ever printed. The roundup question — whether any person was taken from this township's ground in the late summer of 1838 — waits on the enrolling journal of Jesse C. Douglas and the Petit letters read whole, and on the Trail of Death Association's route and camp file. And the town's own history volume — Jeanne Geyer's Now & then, whose holding the sources orientation locates at the Indiana State Library — may carry tradition this section has deliberately not repeated at second hand. Until those records are read, this section stands at the strength printed: one nation, one taking, no village and no reserve on the ground, a removal that began and marched south of it, and the descendants named.