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THE COUNTY HISTORIAN'S FRAMEWORK, SUSTAINED HERE
Howard divides the county's taking into four quarters, and for this quarter his framework and the plotted test agree. His land-titles chapter (pp. 154–155) assigns the northeast quarter of the county to the treaty of 1821, the northwest to the treaty of 16 October 1826, the southeast to the treaty he dates September 1828, and "the southwest quarter… by treaty of October 26, 1832." The sister passes have not always sustained him — the Osceola pass's plotting corrected his northeast assignment at the margin, where the 1817 line and the state line diverge — and this section therefore ran his southwest assignment as a claim to be tested, not adopted. Tested, it stands: the 26 October 1832 instrument is this ground's taker on the treaty's own calls, and Howard's quarter framework, his survey sequence, and his dates agree with the instruments wherever this section could check them, his 1828 date (28 September against the treaty's 20 September) being the standing exception printed in the 1828 article. Chapman, a generation earlier, tells the taking at state size — "the Pottawatomies sold about 6,000,000 acres in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, including all their claim in this State" — and names no instrument for this township; the plotted test supplies what his narrative leaves general.