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1826 · 1828 · 1832
No reserve stood on the townsite — the test is printed tract by tract. The two reservations the 1828 treaty's calls use as anchors, Flatbelly's reservation and the reservation at Seek's village, stand far east of this county, in the Elkhart and Wabash country; they bound the 1828 tract and touch nothing here. The 1828 treaty's third article granted tracts to named persons of Indian descent, to be "located upon the second cession above described" — that is, inside the 1828 tract, east of the meridian this ground lies west of — so by the treaty's own terms no such grant could be located on the townsite. The 1826 scholar quarter-sections lay on the St. Joseph by Carey Mission, as the article above states. The nearest named reserve in the county's wider record, the reserve of Menominee's band at the Twin Lakes, stands southeast of here in present Marshall County and does not reach Liberty Township. And the mapped record itself is a test: the federal cession dataset maps reservations as well as cessions, and no reserve polygon covers the townsite. The verdict prints as a finding: when the 1832 treaty took this ground, it took it unreserved.