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Verdict: tested NEGATIVE, deepened. No naming statement for "North Liberty" was found in any of the carriers read whole for this test — Chapman (he uses the name from his first settlement sentence with no derivation offered anywhere in the chapter), Howard, either NPS nomination, or the 14 November 1991 Independent-News column. The two unasserted readings print AS readings, neither asserted as the origin: the directional reading — "North" distinguishes this Liberty from a southern namesake — is the weakest of the two, because there is no southern namesake in the county for it to be distinguished from; it lacks the very counterpart it requires. The township-name reading — the town took its name from Liberty Township — carries a chronology problem that must print with it: the town's plat is dated 1836/1837, and Liberty Township was not organised until 2 May 1837, so the town cannot simply be named for the township; the reading survives only in a weakened form (a shared "Liberty" naming in the same organising moment), itself unasserted in any carrier read. Saltzgaber's Genesis (1978) remains the sole settler, as a documented negative — the one carrier that might state the naming, unlocated across three passes (the folklore file carries the missing book whole). G-FR-7 stays OPEN. The folklore file prints the story-versus-proof form of this same question; this article is its depth, and the two files cross-point rather than duplicate.