1821: the Treaty of Chicago does not reach this ground

29 August 1821 · 7 Stat. 218 · Royce Area 117 — NEGATIVE

The town lies west of the 1821 cession's western boundary, though north of its southern one. Article 1 of the Treaty of Chicago begins its cession "at a point on the south bank of the river St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, near the Parc aux Vaches, due north from Rum's Village, and running thence south to a line drawn due east from the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, thence with the said line east to the Tract ceded by the Pottawatamies to the United States by the Treaty of Fort Meigs in 1817…" The western boundary is thus the meridian running south from the Parc aux Vaches point — Parc aux Vaches stands at about 86.27° west, near Bertrand, Michigan — and New Carlisle, at about 86.50° west, lies twelve to fourteen miles west of that line and outside the cession, whose small Indiana portion (Royce Area 117) lies east of it in St. Joseph and Elkhart counties. The cession's southern boundary, the line drawn due east from the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, is the line the record calls the line run in 1817; the next article places it. Two things the 1821 treaty did do near this ground print at their own strength: its third article granted individual sections — Madeline Bertrand one section at the Parc aux Vaches, on the north side of the St. Joseph; the Bertrand children half-sections at the portage of the Kankakee; Pierre Moran and children at the mouth of the Elkhart — none of them on this ground; and its fourth article set aside a one-mile square on the south side of the St. Joseph, within the Indian lands not ceded, for a blacksmith and a teacher — the funding root of Carey Mission, whose scholars reappear on this ground under the 1826 schedule below. A phrase sometimes associated with this article — an exception for lands "heretofore granted" — does not appear in Article 1 as printed in the Kappler text read whole for this test; the treaty's exception machinery is its second article's band reserves, all in Michigan, and its third article's grants. If the phrase must be pinned, the settler is a fresh read of the 1833 supplement prints; it was not exhaustively checked there.