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By 1840
Ceded 1828, opened 1833, settled the same year. The sequence this section proves is short enough to state whole: the ground stood in Potawatomi title until 20 September 1828, when the second cession of the Treaty of St. Joseph extinguished it; the survey laid the rectangular grid over it as Township 36 North, Range 2 East; the La Porte office opened in 1833 and made its first district sale that August; and the township's first settlements — on the Michigan road lands, through the townsite's own corridor — date to that same year, 1833. By the time the plat was recorded in 1859 the map of the townsite was private and had been platted around a tavern stand for a generation. What remains unproven is named, not hidden: the first entries on the two townsite quarters, the surveyed position of the Kankakee headwater that fixes the cession's western edge at survey strength, the locations the floating grants actually took, and the Michigan Road selections on the townsite sections — each with its settler named in this build's note, and each assigned to the land-records pass in the forward plan.