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37
6
160
S. E. 4
Dec. 26, 1833.
William A. Welsh.
30
37
5
80
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Dec. 30, 1833.
During the year 1834, there were entered in the county fifty-nine tracts of land, representing an aggregate of 5080.75 acres, all of which, without exception, was in Townships 36 and 37 north. In 1835, 938 tracts were entered in the county, as this was the year that the land south of the old Indian line running through the southern point of Lake Michi- gan was thrown into market, and there was a great rush into the new county by speculators and by those who expected to become residents. During this year, 1835, nearly 90,000 acres of land in the county were entered at the Government price of $1.25 per acre. Eight thousand and eighty acres of Wabash & Erie Canal lands were located in Porter County, the first sale of the same occurring in 1843 and the last in 1862. This land was confined to Townships 34 and 36, Range 7. Three thou- sand two hundred acres of Michigan road land were also sold in 1835. The State has derived no little income from the sale of the swamp lands in Porter County, that were donated by Congress. The splendid systems of drainage, both county and State, have reclaimed large tracts of land that in early years were very wet or covered with water. There has been spent in the county for open and underground drainage not less than $200,000. The first great ditches began to be built between 1850 and 1860, and since then many others have been added at high expense. The Kankakee Drainage Company flourished for a time at the very zenith of pleasurable anticipation, but the citizens were too wise to be caught by these Shylocks, and therefore did not have to pay a pound of flesh nearest the heart.
Creation and Organization of Present County .- No other changes were made in the civil division of what, in 1836, became Porter County, than those made by the Commissioners of La Porte County as
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
above described, until the winter of 1835-36, at which time the following enactment was passed by the State Legislature :
SECTION I .- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That from and after the first day of February next, all that tract of country included in the follow- ing boundary lines shall form and constitute the county of Porter, to wit : Commencing at the northwest corner of La Porte County, thence running south to the Kankakee River, thence west with the bed of said river to the center of Range 7, thence north to the State line, thence east to the place of beginning. And all that part of the country that lies north of the Kankakee River and west of the county of Porter within the State of In- diana, shall form and constitute a new county, to be known and designated by the name of Lake County.
SEC. 2. That the county of Porter shall, from and after the first day of Febru- ary next, enjoy and possess all the rights, privileges, benefits and jurisdictions, which, to separate and independent counties do, or may properly belong.
SEC. 3. That Joel Long, of Kosciusko, Andrew Wilson, of Fountain, Mathias Daw- son and Judah Leaming, of La Porte, and William L. Earl, of St. Joseph, Counties be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners agreeably to the act entitled " An Act fixing the seat of justice in all new counties hereafter to be laid off." The Commissioners afore- said shall meet on the first Monday in June next, or any day thereafter they may agree upon, at the house of Thomas Butler, in the said county of Porter, and shall proceed im- mediately to perform the duties required of them by law, and it shall be the duty of the Sheriff of the county of St. Joseph to notify said Commissioners, either in person or by writing, of their appointment, and for such services, said Sheriff shall receive such com- pensation as the board, doing county business of Porter County, may deem reasonable.
SEC. 4. The Circuit Court and Board of County Commissioners shall hold their ses- sions as near the center of the county of Porter as a convenient place can be had until the public buildings shall be erected.
SEC. 5. The county of Porter shall be attached to the Eighth Judicial Circuit of this State for judicial purposes.
SEC. 6. The board doing county business may, as soon as elected and qualified, hold special sessions not exceeding three days during the first year after the organization of said county, and shall make all necessary appointments, and do and perform all other business which may or might have been necessary to be performed at any other regular session, and take all necessary steps to collect the State and county revenue, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
SEC. 7. This act to be in force from and after its passage.
CALEB B. SMITH, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Approved, 28thi of anuary, 1836. N. NOBLE.
DAVID WALLACE, President of the Senate.
During the same session of the Legislature that the above creating enactment was passed, provision was made for the organization of Porter County by the appointment of Benjamin Saylor, Sheriff, with full power to order an election of two Associate Judges of the Circuit Court, three Commissioners, one Clerk of the Court, and one Recorder, and to trans- act other necessary business. Accordingly, an election of such officers was ordered held on the 23d day of February, 1836, and resulted as fol- lows :
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
THREE COMMISSIONERS.
RECORDER.
CLERK.
James Blair.
Reason Bell.
Jesse Johnson.
L. G. Jackson.
Orrin Lewis.
Henry Rinker.
Benjamin Spencer.
Noah Fouts.
John Sefford.
G. Z. Salyer.
Scattering.
Benjamin McCarty.
P. A. Paine.
Cyrus Spurlock.
Benjamin McCarty.
George W. Turner.
Jesse Morgan.
Isaac Morgan
28
27
6
40
3
45
46
18
39
3
1
26
26
3
30
22
John Spurlock.
15
12
25
11
5
32
35
35
2
3
30
1
32
Morris Witham
6
13
18
7
23
23
23
4
2
17
2
20
L. G. Jackson
32
9
41
24
1
15 21
21 25
24
......
7
3
15
10
14
2
Totals.
90
61
63
123
8
46
137
'122
156
17
10
58
44
72
68
102
2
The following more fully explains this table : At an election held at the house of William Gosset February 23, 1836, for the purpose of electing two Associate Judges of the Circuit Court, three County Com- missioners, a Clerk of the Circuit Court, and a Recorder for the county the following men voted : James Turner, Pressley Warnick, John Saylor, Jesse McCord, Samuel Haviland, William Nernon, Beda Cornell, James Thomas, Isaac Sanford, John Hageman, William Gosset, Jacob Beck, William Coleman, John Reed, Jeremiah Frame, William Thomas, Enos Thomas, Benjamin Joslin, William McCoy, William Frame, Jesse Mor- gan, John Casteel, Eli Hendricks, Curtis Parkes, Samuel Thomas, Abra- ham Hall. Total, 26.
The vote for the same candidates on the same day at the house of Isaac Morgan, in Morgan Township was polled by the following men :
John Coleman, Jacob Coleman, D. S. Holland, John Blair, Jacob Fleming, Isaac Thomas, Levi Chamberlin, James M. Buel, William Mor- gan, John Herron, P. D. Cline, Reason Bell, Andrew Ault, Stephen Brayton, Joseph Hines, Benjamin Taylor, Orrin Lewis, J. S. Heming, Peter Hesser, Reason Reed, Antony Boggs, Henry Stoner, Sanford Hammond, W. B. Smith, Simon Drouillard, George Cain, Edmund Bil- lings, Asa Hughes, Benjamin Bingham, James Blair, William Bingham, Benjamin Reed, G. Z. Salyer, Henry Rinker, James Laughlin, G. Hughes, John Robinson, John R. Sargent, Robert Wallace, Nelson H. Smith, Benjamin Carr, William Mofford, Joshua Goodrich, John Jones, A. G. Denison, Isaac Morgan, Samuel Stoner, Peter Wininger, Isaac Wininger, Sperry Howard, Henry Barklow, Enos Neil, Warner Winslow, Frederick Wininger, John B. Taylor. Total, 55.
The vote for the same candidates on the same day at the house of Morris Witham was cast by the following persons :
Adam S. Campbell, Wiley James, Morris Witham, Charles Allen, Washington Ault, Martin Reed, John Bartholomew, Jesse Johnson, Christopher Barns, Asahel Neil, Miller Parker, M. Coghill, George
7
25
14
...
...
William Gosset ..
9
14
35
12
9
21
10
......
...
HOUSE WHERE HELD.
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
Shoultz, G. W. Coghill, Benjamin Spencer, Jacob Kinsey, William Bil- lings, John Adams, James Ross, James Palmer, Joseph Bartholomew, Henry S. Adams, G. W. Turner, Enoch Billings. Total, 24.
The vote for the same candidates, on the same day, at the house of John Spurlock, in Ross Township, was cast by the following men : Washington Williams, John F. McGrew, Preston Blake, Wright Taylor, William Brim, Richard Clark, Joseph Willey, John F. Walton, Eri Fouts, John Conway, Henry Herold, Ezra Crosby, Sylvester Forbes, Theophilus Blake, James Walton, David Spurlock, John G. Forbes, William Wolf, Edwin Abbott, H. S. Webster, Stephen Spurlock, P. A. Paine, Russell Darr, James Conant, W. A. Nichols, Lewis Walton, Edmund Wolf, George Spurlock, Jacob Wolf, John Spurlock, Noah Fouts, Moses Wilson, Cyrus Spurlock, Andrew Wilson, Joseph Wilson ; total, 35.
The vote for the same candidates, on the same day, at the house of L. G. Jackson, was polled by the following men : William Eaton, Sam- uel Olinger, James M. Davis, Alexander Crawford, Thomas Crawford, L. G. Jackson, Lewis Todhunter, Lewis Casteel, William Calhoun, Eli- jah Casteel, Joel Crumpacker, Griffin Holbert, Abraham Snodgrass, D. W. Lyons, Jerry Todhunter, William Downing, Solomon Hobaugh, John Casteel, Ruel Starr, James Spurlock, A. K. Paine, Owen Crumpacker, Thomas J. Wyatt, John Sefford, H. A. K. Paine, John P. Noble, G. W. Faulkner, William Snavely, Benjamin McCarty, Joel Walker, H. E. Woodruff, Levi Massey, Joseph Wright, William Walker, Nelson Ellison, Alfred Winter, J. S. Wallace, J. R. C. Brown, Mordecai Massey, Roby R. Parrott; total, 40; grand total, 180.
The following action of the first Board of Commissioners is taken from the record of the Auditor of Porter County :
At a special session of the Board of Commissioners in and for the county of Porter aforesaid, begun on the 12th of April, 1836, the following persons came forward and pro- duced their certificates of election, signed by the Sheriff of said county, with the necessary oath of office indorsed thereon : John Sefford, Benjamin N. Spencer and Noah Fouts. Also present George W. Turner, Clerk of said Commissioners' Court, and Benjamin Saylor, Sheriff of said county.
Ordered by the Board, That for the purpose of electing township officers for the county of Porter, the following district of said county shall form and constitute a town- ship to be known by the name of Lake: Commencing at the northeast corner of Porter County, thence south with said county line to the line dividing Townships 36 and 37, thence west on said line to the southeast corner of Section 31, Township 37 north, Range 5 west, thence north to the State line, thence east to the place of beginning.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known by the name of Jackson : Commencing at the northeast corner of Section 1, Township 36 north, Range 5 west, thence running south with the county line to the southeast corner of Section 36, Township 36 north, Range 5 west, thence west to the southwest corner of Section 32, Township 36, Range 5, thence north to the southwest corner of Lake Township, thence east to the place of beginning.
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known as Washington : Commencing at the northeast corner of Section 1, Township 35, Range 5, thence south with said county line to the southeast corner of Section 36 in said town, thence west to the southwest corner of Section 32, Township 35, Range 5, thence north to the southwest corner of Jackson Township, thence east to the place of beginning.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known by the name of Pleasant : Commencing at the southeast corner of Porter County, thence north to the northeast corner of Section 1, Township 34, Range 5, thence west with the southern boundary of Washington Township to the southwest corner of the same, thence south to the Kankakee River, thence east with the same to the place of beginning.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known as Boone : Com- mencing at the southwest corner of Pleasant Township, thence north with the western boundary of Pleasant to the northwest corner of the same, thence west with the line dividing Townships 34 and 35 to the county line, thence south to the southwest corner of Porter County, thence east with the Kankakee River to the place of beginning.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known as Centre : Com- mencing at the southwest corner of Washington Township, thence north to the south west corner of Jackson Township, thence west to the northwest corner of Section 4, Township 35, Range 6, thence south to the southwest corner of Section 33, Township 35, Range 6, thence east to the place of beginning.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known as Liberty: Commencing at the northwest corner of Washington Township, thence north to the south- west corner of Lake Township, thence west to the northwest corner of Section 4, Town- ship 86, Range 6, thence south to the southwest corner of Section 33, Township 36, Range 6, thence east to the place of beginning.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known as Waverly : Commencing at the southwest corner of Lake Township, thence west to the county line, thence north with said line to the northwest corner of the county, thence east with the northern boundary line of the county to the northwest corner of Lake Township, thence south to the place of beginning.
That the following territory shall constitute a township to be known as Portage : Commencing at the northwest corner of Liberty Township, thence west to the county line, thence south to the southwest corner of Section 34, Township 36, Range 7, thence east to the southwest corner of Liberty Township, thence north to the place of beginning.
And that the following territory shall constitute a township to be known as Union : Commencing at the northwest corner of Centre Township, thence west to the county line, thence south to the northwest corner of Boone Township, thence east to the southwest corner of Centre Township, thence north to the place of beginning.
The Board adjourned to meet the following morning at 9 o'clock A. M. At this session it was ordered that an election of one Justice of the Peace be held in every township that had been created the day before, except in the township of Washington, which was to have two such officers ; and the election for Washington Township was ordered held on the 30th of April, 1836, at the residence of Isaac Morgan, who was appointed Inspector of Election. At the same session an election was ordered for Jackson Township, to be held on the same day (30th), at the residence of Asahel K. Paine, and Samuel Olinger was appointed In- spector. The election for Lake Township was ordered held, same time, at the residence of Edward Harper, who was appointed Inspector. The
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
election for Waverly Township was ordered held, same time, in the town of Waverly, and William Gosset became Inspector by appointment. The election for Liberty Township was ordered held, same time, at the house of Daniel Y. Kesler, and Jerry Todhunter was appointed Inspector. An election for the same date was ordered for Centre Township, to be held at the house of C. A. Ballard, and G. Z. Salyer became Inspector. An election the same date was ordered for Pleasant Township, to be held at the house of Henry Adams, with William Billings, Inspector. An elec- tion on the same date for the township of Boone was ordered held at the house of Jesse Johnson, with Asahel Neil, Inspector. An election was ordered for the township of Union, on the same day, to be held at the house of George W. Turner, with James Walton, Inspector. An elec- tion on the same day, for the township of Portage, was ordered held at the house of Jacob Wolf, Sr., with James Spurlock, Inspector. George Cline was appointed Assessor for all that portion of the county lying south of the line dividing Townships 35 and 36; Peter Ritter, same, for all the county lying north of such line, and John Adams, same, for all the attached territory on the west (Lake County).
At the May term of the Board (1836) the county was divided into Commissioners' Districts as follows : All the territory lying south of the line dividing Townships 34 and 35 to be District No. 1 ; all the territory lying between the line dividing Townships 34 and 35, and the line divid- ing Townships 35 and 36 to be District No. 2; and all the territory north of the line dividing Townships 35 and 36 to be District No. 3. At the May term of the board, Benjamin McCarty, County Treasurer, re- ported that no moneys had been received by him yet in virtue of his official position ; whereupon Benjamin Saylor was appointed County Col- lector. John P. Noble was appointed Constable of Jackson Township; Thomas Crawford, Supervisor of Roads ; Joseph Wright and Levi Massey, Overseers of the Poor ; James M. Davis and Luther Jefferson, Fence Viewers ; all for Jackson Township. For Liberty Township, Daniel W. Lyons was appointed Constable ; Jesse Morgan and Richard Clark, Over- seers of the Poor; William Downing and Edmund Tratebas, Fence View- ers, and Solomon Habans, Supervisor of Roads. For Pleasant Township, Archibald Demand was appointed Constable ; Morris Witham, Supervisor of Roads ; Thomas Adams and Morris Witham, Overseers of the Poor ; John Adams and John Jones, Fence Viewers. For Union Township, E. W. Fouts was appointed Constable; Richard Henthorn, Supervisor of Roads ; Daniel Turner and David Spurlock, Overseers of the Poor ; Washington Williams and B. Bunnell, Fence Viewers. For Ross Town- ship, John Young was appointed Constable ; Royal Benton, Supervisor of Roads ; Daniel Wallsworth and William Thornburg, Overseers of the
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
Poor ; W. B. Crooks and Jesse Pierce, Fence Viewers. For Portage Township-James Connett, Constable; William Brim, Supervisor of Roads ; T. Blake and Jacob Wolf, Overseers of the Poor ; John Wolf and Stephen Spurlock, Fence Viewers. William Billings was appointed Seminary Trustee of Porter County.
The following is the three months' report of William Walker, County Treasurer, rendered November, 1836 :
From Benjamin Walker, former Treasurer .
$4 87
From Ebenezer Clark, liceuse
93
From Francis Willey, license 10 00
From Ebenezer Clark, license. 10 00
From Samuel Haviland, license. 56}
Total
$26 36}
By order to G. W. Turner.
$ 50
By order to G. W. Turner
87₺
By order to G. W. Turner.
3 00
By order to G. W. Turner
10 00
By order to G. A. Ballard
2 50
By order to
3 00
Balance on hand
6 48%
Total
$26 36}
The following is the report of the Commissioners selected by the State Legislature, as will be seen by the enactment several pages back, to locate the county seat of Porter County :
The undersigned Commissioners to locate the county seat of Porter County, Ind., make the following report : That they met, pursuant to agreement, on Tuesday, the 7th inst., at the house of Thomas Butler, and were duly sworn to discharge the duties of Com- missioners to locate the county seat of Porter County, Ind .; that they proceeded to view all the sites on Tuesday and Wednesday following, and inquired upon what terms the same might be secured ; that after duly inspecting the different sites and taking into con- sideration all the matters to which the law called their particular attention, your Com- missioners concluded that the southwest quarter of Section 24, Township 35 north, Range 6 west, was the most eligible site for said county seat. Your Commissioners accordingly gave notice that they were ready to receive proposals, if any were to be made, of this or other parts for such county seat. The Commissioners received from the proprietors of said town (Portersville) and others donations of each alternate lot-192 lots to be laid out at or near the center of said southwest quarter of Section 24, Township 35, Range 6, and a donation of forty acres of land-part of Section 20, Township 35, Range 6, and donations of money, for a more particular description of which you are referred to the bonds filed herewith. Your Commissioners then proceeded to the said southwest quarter of Section 24, and located the county seat upon said quarter section, and stuck a stake which is half-way between the northwest corner and the northeast corner of the public square, on the north side of said square, and which by a line run with a compass was found to be south 53 degrees east 29 chains and 10 links from the half-mile post on the west side of Section 24. The donations made for said point were upon condition that said site and public square shall be located as they are above described, and for which bonds are filed in the name of different individuals with the Commissioners of Porter County.
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
And the county seat of Porter County, as hereby established by the undersigned Locating Commissioners, is on the site as above described; and the stake, having the bearings above, is on the north line of the public square, and the alternate lots are to be laid off by the donors on said site-the southwest quarter of Section 24, Township 35 north, Range 6 west.
W. L. EARLE, MATHIAS DAWSON, JUDAH LEAMING, Locating Commissioners.
JUNE 9, 1836.
The amounts of the bonds that were given for the payment of the money that was donated to Porter County by the proprietors of the county seat, for the erection of county buildings, with the names of the obligors, are as follows : Bond No. 1, $500, Benjamin McCarty, John Walker, John Saylor, Enoch Mc Carty, L. L. Hillis and William Walker; Bond No. 2, $50, James Hutchins ; Bond No. 3, $100, George Cline ; Bond No. 4, $75, A. S. Campbell ; Bond No. 5, $100, Isaac Morgan ; Bond No. 6, $25, Charles G. Minick ; Bond No. 7, $100, Thomas But- ler ; Bond No. 8, $100, G. Z. Salyer ; Bond No. 9, $50, Isaac Morgan ; Bond No. 10, $100, Ruel Starr. These several amounts pledged by the proprietors of the county seat, together with the various town lots that were donated to the county, furnished, for many years, quite an important source of revenue. From time to time the anthorized county agent, to whom was intrusted the disposal of the lots, sold the same to citizens or new settlers, usually taking notes for the consideration, due with interest at a future day. As the pressure for means for the first few years after the county was organized, to aid in the construction of bridges, roads, public buildings, and in the payment of public functiona- ries was very great, the town lots and the bonds were converted into money by the Commissioners as soon as possible ; but even the amounts thus obtained were not sufficient to satisfy the clamor for the collection and expenditure of sums that would render the public highways servicea- ble, and the Commissioners, under the stricture, levied heavier assess- ments, and thus, like Oliver Twist, were guilty of the unpardonable offense of asking for " more; " but, still further, like Oliver, were pressed into the measure by others as hungry as themselves.
At the May term of the board, 1836, A. S. Campbell and George Cline, Justices of the Peace, paid to the County Treasurer $3 fines which had been imposed by them for theft and assault. An election of an addi- tional Justice of the Peace for Centre Township was ordered held at the house of C. A. Ballard. For Centre Township, Charles G. Minick was appointed Constable ; Robert Wallace, Supervisor of Roads; J. R. C. Brown and P. A. Paine, Overseers of the Poor; Abraham Stoner and James Buel, Fence Viewers. For Washington Township, Adam S. Campbell and Reason Bell were appointed Overseers of the Poor ; Peter
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HISTORY OF PORTER COUNTY.
Cline, Supervisor of Roads ; George Cline and John Shinabarger, Fence Viewers. For Boone Township, Isaac Cornell was appointed Supervisor of Roads ; William Frame and John Robinson, Overseers of the Poor; A. Neil and John Downing, Fence Viewers. For Bryant Township, Simeon Bryant, Constable; Payne Bryant, Supervisor of Roads ; David Bryant and Thomas Childers, Overseers of the Poor ; David Chandler and Lyman Wells, Fence Viewers. For Clark Town- ship, Richard Fancher, Constable ; William Clark, Supervisor of Roads ; Solon Robinson and Peter Steinbrook, Overseers of the Poor; C. H. Paine and J. W. Holton, Fence Viewers. C. A. Ballard was allowed $2.50 for house rent for the County Commissioners for five days, and Reason Reed was allowed 75 cents for making returns of the election in Washington Township.
Roads .- At the June session of the board, the first petition was received for a county road extending from Portersville (Valparaiso) by " the best and nearest route to the new crossway between Andrew Tay- lor's and James Blair's, thence to the county line, intersecting a road leading via Cathcart's Grove to La Porte." Wilson Malone, Morris Witham and James W. Turner were appointed Viewers. At the same time a road was ordered viewed from the northeast corner of Section 24, Town 36 north, Range 5 west, thence west to E. Casteel's mill on Coffee Creek, thence west to William Gosset's mill on Salt Creek, thence west to the county line; Peter Ritter, Samuel Olinger and William Thomas, Viewers. In July, 1836, a county road was established from the quarter post on the north line of Section 30, Town 35, Range 5, to Sherwood's Ferry on the Kankakee; Jesse Johnson, Joseph Willey and Samuel G. Jackson, Viewers. In September, 1836, a county road was established from the southwest quarter of Section 12, Town 34, Range 7, to Liver- pool, but this road was not built. At the same date as last a road was ordered viewed from Portersville (Joliet road) to the county line near the mouth of Taylor's Run ; Isaac Morgan, Reason Bell and Andrew Taylor, Viewers. One from Portersville to Sherwood's Ferry was viewed, but reported on adversely. In September, 1836, a road was established from the northeast corner of Section 22, Town 33, Range 7, to Portersville ; Isaac Morgan, Henry Rinker and John Shinabarger, Viewers. This road was soon altered somewhat. Other roads established in 1836 were as follows : From Portersville to Thomas Snow's store by a circuitous route ; from Portersville to Elijah Casteel's mill; from Portersville to Athens, near Gosset's mill; from Isaac Morgan's on the north side of Morgan's Prairie to intersect the State Road from Portersville to Michi- gan City, but this was not built ; from the new bridge on Calumet River, at the mouth of Salt Creek, to Deep River, at crossing of Hickory
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