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After 1832
The cession of October 1832 opened this ground to survey and sale; the first entries on the townsite itself were not extracted. The sequence the record does carry bounds the item: the ground was ceded 26 October 1832; the first settlements near the site came in 1833; the plat was laid out in 1836 or 1837 on sections 28 and 29 of a township that had first to be surveyed. Who entered the southwest quarter of section 28 and the southeast quarter of section 29, on what dates, and at which land office's counter, stands as a named gap. Its settlers are the tract books of the General Land Office for Township 36 North, Range 1 East — which record every original entry against its quarter-section — and the surveyor's field notes for the same township, which are also the settler named in the tribes section for what stood on the ground when the surveyors came. The Antrim family's own entries are the first items the land pass will read there; nothing about them is asserted here ahead of the record.