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THE NEGATIVE ARTICLE
The cession record is also a record of near misses, and this section prints them so the taking above is not read wider than its calls: the Treaty of Greenville (1795) and the Fort Wayne treaties (1803, 1809) drew their lines in the Maumee and Wabash country east and south of this valley and never reached the St. Joseph. The Treaty of St. Mary's (1818) took the central-Indiana country south of the Wabash; its lines stop short of this ground. The Treaty of Mississinewa (1826) matters here only by a segment: its Michigan Road grant crossed the county west of Penn Township, not this ground, and its last clause — the tract Royce catalogues as Cession No. 20, in the state's northwest corner — took the ten-mile strip west of the Parc aux Vaches segment, on the far side of the 1821 cession's western edge; east of that segment, where Osceola stands, the strip was already 1821 ground. The Treaty of Chicago of 1833 and its Pokagon supplement concern the Michigan reserves and the ground north of the state line; their bearing on this valley's peoples is carried in Tribes, and no call in them touches Township 37 North, Range 4 East. What took this ground is one instrument, dated 29 August 1821, and the cascade that followed it took the county around it.