New Carlisle, Indiana · 19th century
1820s
14 dated events in 1820s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 14 dated mentions
1820s
- 18211821: the Treaty of Chicago does not reach this ground
The town lies west of the 1821 cession's western boundary, though north of its southern one.
- 1822–1835The mission ground: Carey Mission, the Sauk Trail corridor, and a township named Olive
The Baptist missionary Isaac McCoy established the Carey Mission among the Potawatomi on the St. Joseph River near present Niles, Michigan, in December 1822; its school opened 27 January 1823 with thirty pupils, and the mission — named for the English Baptist missionary William Carey…
- 1823–1880T. J. Garoutte: merchant, trustee, legislator
T. J. Garoutte was born in Ohio 19 December 1823, son of James S. and Mary (Babington) Garoutte; the family came to Indiana in 1830 and to this county in 1831, the year of his mother's death on the Rolling Prairie road, told above.
- 1826Starting title: the Potawatomi Tribe as landowner
Every instrument plotted below is therefore tested as a cession by that entity, and the Commission's own area-by-area attributions are carried beside the plot test: as the articles show, the Commission's mapping agrees with the treaty calls — the strip above the 1817 line at this longitude is an 1826 taking.
- 18261826: the treaty that took the townsite
The townsite was taken by the second tract of the first article of the Treaty of 16 October 1826. The treaty, made near the mouth of the Mississinewa, cedes two tracts.
- 1826–1834The founding road: the treaty strip and the survey
Article Two of the treaty with the Potawatomi of 16 October 1826 — the same instrument whose schedule of grants put the townsite's quarter-section in Lazarus Bourissa's hands, dug whole in this build's land section…
- 1826–1835Lazarus Bourissa and the treaty-grant families
The schedule attached to the Treaty of 1826 (7 Stat.
- 1826–1835The founders, on both sides of the ground
On the Indigenous side the founding is a treaty paper: the schedule attached to the Treaty of 16 October 1826 (7 Stat.
- 1826–1835The treaty-era fortune: the grants totalled, the cash stated at its record
The Treaty of 16 October 1826 (7 Stat.
- 1826–1835The reserves on this ground: the Carey Mission scholar quarter-sections
The sixth article of the Treaty of 1826 and the schedule of grants annexed to it (the schedule text at 7 Stat.
- 1826–2026The era structure: five parts, every fortune assigned
Trading and land (1826–1880): the treaty grants (the article above) and the prairie holders — Reynolds, Clark and Ranstead, 7,433 acres together — sized in the sector article below.
- 18281828: the Carey Mission treaty takes ground on both sides of this strip — not this strip
The town lies in the gap between the 1828 treaty's two cessions.
- 1829The federal survey as a map event
The first map of this ground that the record proves is the United States survey itself: the rectangular grid laid over the cession of 1826, which fixed the township lines, the sections, and — in the fall of 1829 — the very quarter-sections on which the town would stand.
- 1829–1906Names that run through the record: the Comptons and the publisher's family
Hugh V. Compton, born 18 September 1829 in Butler County, Ohio, brought to this county at six, kept "a first-class livery stable" in New Carlisle and owned it with a 150-acre farm; in 1880 he rode as a "rider" — a sworn constable for the purpose…