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UNSETTLED · THE SETTLER IS THE GRANT RECORD ITSELF
The question: the town stands on land first held by the Potawatomi grantee from whom it took its first name — Bourissa Hills in the modern record (the promotion association's site gives the singular, "Bourissa Hill"; the variant prints with the name). But the name itself will not sit still in the record. Chapman's transcription gives the first owner as "Bursaw(?)," the query standing in the carrier's text; Howard gives, in one passage, two forms — "Lazarus Bourissan," whose children were "Bourissau"; the modern record settles on Lazarus Bourissa, Carey Mission graduate, holding his section by the treaty that removed most of the Potawatomi west. Four forms, one man, and the chain of title — treaty grant, the Frenchman's holding, the purchase from his children by Carlisle — rides on the identification. This build prints the forms as they stand in each source and merges none of them. The settler: the treaty-grant record and the Carey Mission record at first hand, with the purchase papers behind Howard's account — the land leg's ground, and the deepest single name question on it.
Principal sources: Chapman (1880) through its carrier; Howard (1907); the town's reference record and discovernewcarlisle.com — each read first-hand, the forms as printed in each.