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1600s–1830s · the Kankakee and the St. Joseph country
The imperial-map class prints as a tested negative at town frame and a positive at county frame. French and British sheets of the St. Joseph–Kankakee country (the floor's 1679–1763 range for the valley) map the rivers, the portage and the Potawatomi country this township lay inside, but no sheet of that era can show a town founded in the 1830s, and none names this ground at finer grain than the marsh and the river system. The first map event that touches the township lot by lot is the federal rectangular survey: the township itself is a survey artifact — congressional township 36, range 2 east in Howard's printing of the 1837 township order — ruled into sections before it was settled into farms, with Liberty Township organized 2 May 1837 out of Greene.