The instruments that did not take this ground

Tested, each from its own calls

Proximity is never inflated into cession: every other candidate was plotted and missed. The Treaty of Chicago, 29 August 1821 (7 Stat. 218, Area 117): its polygon lies north of the 1817 line — the line is its southern boundary — and the town is 5.57 miles south of that line; negative on the southern limb, its reserves and grants all in Michigan or at the St. Joseph and Elkhart in the far north. The Treaty on the Wabash, 16 October 1826 (7 Stat. 295): its first tract (Area 132) is a Wabash–Eel–Fort Wayne polygon scores of miles southeast; its second (Area 133) is a ten-mile band straddling northward from the southern extreme of Lake Michigan — between the 1817 line and ten miles north of it — and the town stands south of the band's southern edge; negative on both tracts. The first cession of the 1828 treaty itself (Area 145): the lake-and-river strip from the St. Joseph's mouth to the 19th mile tree on the state line, every point of it along the river or north of it, more than ten miles from the townsite; negative by the calls. The Treaty of Tippecanoe, 20 October 1832 (7 Stat. 378, Area 177): bounded east by the Illinois–Indiana state line itself, an Illinois-side cession; negative. The Treaty of Tippecanoe, 26 October 1832 (7 Stat. 394, Area 180) — North Liberty's taking: its eastern edge in this county is the call "thence east, to the north-west corner of the cession made by the treaty of St. Joseph's, in eighteen hundred and twenty-eight; thence south ten miles" — the very same meridian segment that bounds Lakeville's tract on the west, read from the other side. The two instruments mesh along that line without gap or overlap; the 1832 tract takes the country west of it, and Lakeville stands east. Negative here, by the same half-mile margin, mirrored. The Treaty of Tippecanoe, 27 October 1832 (7 Stat. 399, Area 181): a general cession with no metes and bounds, taking only what the Potawatomi still held — the unceded remainder south of the 1828 tract's southern boundary; at this longitude its mapped ground begins 3.77 miles south of the town, which had been ceded four years before; negative, not because its words exclude the townsite but because there was nothing left here for it to take. The Treaty of Chicago, 26 September 1833 (7 Stat. 442): the western shore of Lake Michigan and the Michigan-side reserves, the nearest tract stopping at the state line some fifteen miles north; negative on both limbs, and in any event this ground was already ceded. The Treaty of St. Joseph of 19 September 1827 enters this ground only by reference in later instruments and is printed as referenced, not as a candidate.