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Closing
What the record does not carry is stated, not filled. It does not carry a village here, a site here, or a gloss for Terre Coupee. It does not carry the Bourissa family's course after the sale of 1835 — where the children went, or whether the cabin household of 1834 was Lazarus's own, stands beyond the record read, and the federal-record account that the scholar-grantees "probably never saw these lands" is printed in the land section against the local tradition, unresolved between them because the record itself is two-sided. The deed that would settle the conveyance's terms stands named as a settler in the land section. What the record does carry is rare enough to state plainly: a town whose founding lot-lines descend, unbroken and documented, from a named Potawatomi schoolboy's quarter-section — granted by treaty in 1826, selected in 1829, purchased in 1835 — on ground the tribe itself ceded in the same instrument. The two layers of the title are the whole Indigenous record of this ground, and they are printed whole.