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UNSETTLED AS A SINGLE DATE · BOTH RECORDS PRINT
The question: the township's age stands in the frame of this very build as "organized 1830," and the records beneath the frame divide. Chapman dates the township's beginnings to 1830 — surveyed that year, first occupied by whites that year, named in the same breath of settlement. Howard gives the formal act: Olive as the third township formed, by the commissioners' order of May 6, 1832, which created Penn, Portage and Olive together. The two are probably both true of different events — a surveyed and settled township of 1830, a formed township of 1832 — but "probably" is doing the work in that sentence, and the build prints the two dates with their two meanings rather than one date with a silent choice. The settler: the commissioners' order book itself, in the county archives (pull list, item 4), read against Chapman's narrative at page strength.
Principal sources: Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), Olive Township treatments, both read first-hand.