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This section closes where its record closes, and the closing is an inventory: three classes of record, each already pointed to somewhere in the banked files, each named here with what it holds, who holds it, and on what terms it can be read. The first class is the ground itself, read at site level. The banked village test prints its verdict — hunting country, no named village — at the strength of the published county histories and the 1875 atlas, and names its settler in its own text: the State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database, SHAARD, administered by the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. What a fuller record requires there is now statable exactly, from the custodian's own guidance: SHAARD's above-ground data is public, but its archaeological site locations and information are restricted and password-protected, granted only to qualified professionals meeting the Secretary of the Interior's Professional Qualification Standards in archaeology — an account is requested from the Division, and the general public is not given one. A township-level statement finer than this section's — site by site across Lincoln Township's sections, with the marsh-edge camps the hunting use implies either documented or their absence made a searched absence rather than an unsearched one — therefore requires a credentialed archaeologist's SHAARD query, commissioned or collaborative; no seat without those credentials can pull it, and that is a property of the record's custody, not of this build's effort. The second class is the removal at name level. The banked removal article prints its limit in its own words: this section "prints the course the county record supports, and no names it does not." The names live, where they survive, in the conductors' and agents' paper: the National Archives' Miscellaneous Indian Removal Rolls, 1832–1846 (microfilm publication M1831, Record Group 75, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs), whose published contents are narrower than this ground needs — the Potawatomi rolls that publication holds are the Chicago parties of 1836 and 7 September 1837, not a roll of the 1840–43 Indiana removals under Alexis Coquillard that emptied this ground. A name-level account of who was taken from this township therefore requires work beyond M1831: the Bureau of Indian Affairs' correspondence and emigration records for the 1840 removal under General Hugh Brady's superintendence, in which Coquillard served as removal agent — a correspondence of which eight letters survive in the Clarke Historical Library's Michigan in Letters collection as a published sample — together with Daniel McDonald's Removal of the Pottawattomie Indians from Northern Indiana (1898), the period compilation, itself built from the department's reports, which prints the 1840 party's figures (536 setting out in the report it quotes) without a township roll. Until that correspondence is read party by party, the removal from Lincoln Township stays at the course's strength, and any name attached to it would be a guess wearing a citation. The third class is the treaty-era name record itself — the names as the instruments carry them. This build has already met its instability at first hand: the same men appear as Mau-ke-kose and Muck Rose, as Nees-waugh-gee and Nas-waw-kee, as Aub-be-naub-bee and Aub-ba-naub-ba, across the cessions of 1832–36 dug for the Land addendum, and the banked files print the variants rather than merging them. A fuller record requires the name authority the treaty record never built for itself: the signatory lists of Kappler vol. II collated against the annuity and payment rolls — the Potawatomi annuity rolls in the Archives' microfilm record, the 1843 payroll and the later Cadman and Taggert rolls that the genealogical record indexes — so that a name in a removal party, a name on a reserve, and a name on an annuity roll can be shown to be one person, or honestly left as two. That collation is a work of its own, and it is the precondition for almost everything a deeper Tribes leg would want to say. The three classes together are this section's closing line: a credentialed site file for the ground, a conductors'-correspondence read for the removal, and a collated name record for the people — each named, each custodied, none reachable whole from an open seat. What stands until they are read is what the banked leg and this section print: a hunting country, a plotted taking, no reserve and no village on this ground, a removal at course strength, an exception that held on the river, and the modern nations speaking, at last in this section, in their own voice.
Sources: Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, SHAARD and SHAARD GIS Qualified Professional Archaeologist User's Guide (Feb. 2014) — archaeological access restricted to credentialed professionals, accounts on request, no public archaeological entry; National Archives, Miscellaneous Indian Removal Rolls, 1832–1846, M1831 (archives.gov microfilm pamphlet) — contents including the Chicago Potawatomi parties of 1836 and 1837, Record Group 75; Clarke Historical Library, Michigan in Letters — the 1840 Brady–Coquillard removal correspondence; Daniel McDonald, Removal of the Pottawattomie Indians from Northern Indiana (1898), full text at archive.org; name-form variants: Kappler vol. II instruments of 1832–36 as dug in this history, art. "The buy-back sequence"; pointers, arts. "The village test" and "The removal," and Before Walkerton, art. "The removal."