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THE VALLEY LINE, AND THE TEST THIS GROUND RETURNS
The test first: the valley's posts stood where its geography put them — at the river's mouth, at Bertrand below the chiefs' towns, and at the carrying place. For the Mishawaka townsite that test was run in its build and returned none; for Granger's upland the same; for this ground the same answer stands at the same strength: no trader's post, licensed stand or trader's cabin is recorded on the townsite ground in any source reached. The settling record class is the federal Indian-trade license record and the American Fur Company papers, named in this build's notes. The line itself, dug for the sister builds, is carried here in brief because this ground fed it: Antoine LeClare, settled a few miles above Fort St. Joseph from 1781, the valley's first resident in Anson's study; William Burnett at the river's mouth, married into Topenebee's family — Kakima, the chief's sister in the Citizen Potawatomi genealogy, his daughter in Sleeper-Smith's reading, both carried — his day book's last entry 19 July 1802; and Joseph Bertrand, who from 1808 kept the post at Parc aux Vaches below Pokagon's branch, the nearest stand to this ground of them all. This ground was their hinterland across the river: hunted, fished and traded over, never posted. The Tribes and South Bend legs own the line at depth.