The reserves test: none on this ground

Treaty-text strength, whole

Every reserve and grant in the candidate instruments was tested against this ground; the result is negative throughout, with one class honestly left open. The two reservations named in the 1828 calls themselves — Flatbelly's, and the reservation at Seek's village — are boundary anchors of the tract's southern edge in the Elkhart and Wabash country, far east-southeast; they bound the cession, they do not touch Union Township. The 1828 treaty's third article grants some nineteen tracts to named persons, "to be located upon the second cession above described, where the President of the United States may direct, after the country may be surveyed" — Elkhart Prairie and five miles around it excepted. Two of them the instrument itself locates: the Langlois grant on the north side of Eel River, and Betsey Ducharme's at Louison's run — Eel River country, far southeast. One, two sections to Joseph Barron, was excepted at ratification and never took effect; it prints here so no later worker revives it. The rest are floating grants: a location in Union Township was legally possible, the treaty locates none here, and their actual locations are a patent and tract-book record, banked as a named gap — this build asserts neither that a floating grant was located here nor that none was. The 1826 schedule's fifty-eight Carey Mission scholar quarter-sections carry the same floating character and the same gap; the rest of that schedule is located by its text, all far away. Menominee's reserve — the twenty-two sections reserved in 1832 for the bands of Menominee and his fellows at Twin Lakes, in present Marshall County — is the nearest named reserve in the region: measured from its carried placement, five miles southwest of Plymouth, its centre stands about fifteen to sixteen miles south-southwest of the townsite and its nearest reach eleven miles or more away, across the county line; it does not reach Lakeville, a finding the sister build reached independently from the north. And in Union Township itself: no reserve is found in any reached record — not in the treaty texts, not in Howard or Chapman, and no reserve polygon covers the town point in the mapped record. The one corridor class remains: whether the townsite's own sections were among the State's Michigan Road selections is a selection-record question, named as a gap with its settler.