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	Indiana Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indiana Territory was an organized territory of the United States from 1800 to 1816, created by Act of Congress and signed into law by President John Adams on May 7, 1800, effective on July 4.
		The original boundaries of the territory included the area of the Northwest Territory west of the Great Miami River and a line extending north from its headwaters in Indian Lake (in present-day Logan County, Ohio) along approximately 83 deg 45 min W longitude.
		William Henry Harrison was the Governor of the Indiana Territory from May 13, 1800 to December 28, 1812.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indiana_territory (488 words)

	indiana
		Known as the Indiana Territory, a name that reflected it as "the land of the Indians," the territory later was divided even further to create the Michigan Territory (January 1805) and the Illinois Territory (February 1809).
		The governor of the territory, William Henry Harrison, signed the Treaty of Fort Wayne in 1809 with the Delawares, Potawatomis, and Miamis, adding the southern third of the territory to federal reserves; other agreements, including the Treaty of St. Mary's (1818) and the Treaty of Wabash (1826), completed the transfer of land from Indian hands.
		With the territory's population reaching 24,520 in 1810, agitation for state-hood gained momentum, and on 11 December 1816, Indiana was admitted to the Union as the nineteenth state.
	indiana.50ustates.net (2899 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Indiana Territory''' was an organized territory of the United States from 1800 to 1816, created by United States Congress Act of Congress and signed into law by President John Adams on May 7, 1800, effective on July 4.
		The original boundaries of the territory included the area of the Northwest Territory west of the Great Miami River and a line extending north from its headwaters in Indian Lake (Ohio) Indian Lake (in present-day Logan County, Ohio) along approximately 83 deg 45 min W longitude.
		From 1800 to 1813, the territorial capital was Vincennes, Indiana Vincennes.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Indiana_Territory.html (550 words)

	Indiana Territory
		Harrison reappointed governor of Indiana Territory (Goebel, 56).
		Indiana Territory petitions Congress for statehood; petition denied (Barnhart and Riker, 413-14).
		Thomas Posey, new governor of Indiana Territory, arrives at Vincennes (Ewbank and Riker, 819n).
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/publications/tlterr.html (1708 words)

	State History
		On the division of the territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio, by an act of Congress, May the 7th, 1800, Indiana Territory comprised all of the northwest territory except that which soon became the state of Ohio.
		The views of those citizens of Indiana Territory who were not in favor of the proposed suspension of the sixth article of the ordinance of 1787, were at different times sent to the committees at Congress having that matter in charge, in the shape of memorials and remonstrance's.
		The provisions contained in a law of this territory respecting apprentices, emit, " an act respecting apprentices shall be enforced as to such children in case of misbehavior of the master or mistress or for cruelty or ill usage.
	genealogytrails.com /ind/hist_ind_state.html (4854 words)

	City of Vincennes Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During Harrison's governorship of the Indiana Territory, Grouseland was the focal point of the social and official life of the Territory.
		One of the buildings from which the Territory was governed has been preserved here; considered the oldest major government building in the Midwest, it is now used to interpret early government in the Territory.
		Indiana Territory Governor William Henry Harrison was Jefferson Academy's founder and its first chairman of the board.
	www.vincennes.org /attractions.htm (1528 words)

	Grouseland, Vincennes Historic Treasure (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Henry Harrison, first Governor of the Indiana Territory and ninth President of the United States, was born February 9, 1773, at Berkeley, the family estate near Richmond, Virginia.
		In 1799 Harrison was elected a territorial delegate to Congress.
		As Governor of the Territory he was responsible for Indian affairs and building a community as a buttress against the power of France.
	www.grouselandfoundation.org /history.php (1419 words)

	Benjamin Harrison - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Harrison's grandfather had served as the first governor of Indiana Territory and had fought in the Battle of Tippecanoe there.
		Harrison formed a law partnership with William Wallace, son of a former Indiana governor, and the firm prospered.
		In 1876 the Republican candidate for governor of Indiana withdrew from the campaign because of Democratic charges of corruption.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761564367___6/Benjamin_Harrison.html (1520 words)

	WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS, 1791-1864
		Harrison was appointed secretary of the Northwest Territory on June 26, 1798, and in 1799 was elected a territorial delegate to Congress, where he served until May 1800, at which time he was appointed governor of the Indiana Territory.
		Harrison, William Henry, Governor and Commander in chief of the Indiana Territory and of the district of Louisiana.
		Harrison, Will[ia]m Henry, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Indiana Territory, to the Sheriff of Knox County.
	indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0364.html (3500 words)

	governorsbio
		Jennings was elected governor in 1816, handily defeating the incumbent territorial governor, Thomas Posey.
		Bigger served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835, as circuit court judge from 1835 to 1840, and in 1840 was nominated for governor on the Whig ticket, defeating his Democratic opponent, General Tilghman A. Howard.
		Dunning served in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1833 to 1836 and in the Indiana Senate from 1836 to 1840.
	genealogytrails.com /ind/governorsbio.html (9175 words)

	Indiana History Chapter Three
		In 1813, the Indiana Territorial capital had been moved from the old Indiana Territory city of Vincennes to the city of Corydon, in southern Indiana.
		Jonathan Jennings was appointed (as someone could not be elected before a territory became a state) as the first governor of Indiana.
		On December 11, 1816 Indiana was admitted to the United States as the nineteenth state in the union.
	www.centerforhistory.org /indiana_history_main3.html (819 words)

	Vincennes University History
		The Indiana territorial legislature, at its first session in 1806, passed an act to incorporate the first university in the Indiana Territory, "to be called and known by the name and style of Vincennes University".
		William Henry Harrison, first governor of the Indiana Territory, and later (1841) President of the United States, was the first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University.
		It is the oldest city in Indiana; it was the capitol of the Indiana Territory, and the first county seat in the state.
	www.sigmanuiz.org /History/history.htm (311 words)

	Indiana History
		Indiana was under the rule of Miami Chief Little Turtle, who had many tribes under his rule.
		This happened when Indiana was a part of the North-West Territory, before it was the Indiana Territory, or the State of Indiana.
		Criminals in the Indiana Territory were generally sentenced to the whipping post, but now they would be jailed in lieu of lashes.
	www.millersofwashingtoncounty.org /indiana.html (948 words)

	Grouseland, Vincennes Historic Treasure
		His tasks were to keep records of territorial laws, list land claims and surveys, strictly tabulate Governor Arthur St. Clair's acts for Congress, and to substitute for the absent Governor.
		Indiana Territory included the current states of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
		Because Vincennes was centrally located in the most populated area of the Indiana Territory, it was made the capital.
	grouselandfoundation.org /history.php (1419 words)

	Glory of Zion International - State Prayer Focus (Indiana)
		INDIANA was admitted to the Union as the 19th State on December 11, 1816.
		Indiana's population (estimate 2003) is 6,195,643 and is 38th in size among the 50 United States.
		William Henry Harrison was the Governor of the Indiana Territory from 1800-1812.
	www.glory-of-zion.org /indiana.htm (2556 words)

	Fort Harrison \| History
		In the territories of United States, territorial governors acted as ex officio superintendents of Indian affairs.
		As territorial governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for such a vast expanse of land, he would have had a large task.
		William Henry Harrison, served as Territorial Governor of Indiana from 1801 until 1813.
	mason.gmu.edu /~ssaltzgi/Fort_Harrison/ft_harrison_in_history.htm (1126 words)

	The Governor's Palace At Vincennes, Indiana
		Thereupon Washington appointed the twenty-four-year-old captain Secretary of the Northwestern Territory and ex officio Lieu-tenant Governor.
		Vincennes, one of the three white settlements in all this vast territory, became the seat of government.
		In the shutter of a room facing the rear is the mark of a bullet which, it is said, was fired by an Indian who was attempting the life of the Governor, while that official was walking the floor with his little son in his arms.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles15/shrines-84.shtml (932 words)

	Indiana State Archives - Databases (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A small northwest portion of the county occupies the former, while the rest of the county is dominated by hills and lowlands.
		Settlement: The territory within the present confines of Posey County was at one time occupied, as was all of Indiana, by several Indian tribes who were organized into the Miami Confederation.
		Before the establishment of the Northwest Territory, the area of present-day Indiana was a county of Virginia.
	www.state.in.us /icpr/archives/databases/posey/posey1.html (708 words)

	Indiana Governor William Henry Harrison
		The twenty-seven-year-old Harrison was to serve as governor of Indiana Territory for twelve years.
		He was given command of the Army of the Northwest in the fall of 1812 and resigned as governor a few months later.
		Steele painted a portrait of Harrison as one of the epochal governors chosen for the centennial celebration in 1916.
	www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/ihb/govportraits/harrison.html (443 words)

	Illinois Indiana
		Indiana's anti-immigration rule was challenged in the case of a fl man convicted for bringing a fl woman into the state to marry her.
		Every person bound to service or indenture in the territory was to continue as such under state government, though children born of such persons were to be emancipated -- the boys at 24, the girls at 18.
		The governor's contest was a four-way race: two of the candidates were outright advocates of slavery in Illinois.
	www.slavenorth.com /northwest.htm (1640 words)

	Illinois Trails State Data
		When the territory became a state, he was the first to be chosen United States senator, but resigned in 1824 in order to accept the governorship of the state to which he had just been elected.
		The territory of Indian was organized in 1800, and included the area now embraced by the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.
		Louisiana was annexed to this territory in 1804.
	www.iltrails.org /ilstate.htm (1918 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Harrison was born on Feb. 9, 1773, to one of the wealthiest, most prestigious, and most influential families in Virginia, on a great plantation in Berkeley Co. From the early 17th century on, the Harrisons had accumulated vast landholdings, occupied the highest political and judicial positions, and intermarried with the leading families of Virginia.
		William Henry’s youthful military career and his appointment, when he was not yet 30 years old, to the prominent post of governor of Indiana Territory were due more to the influence of his father, Benjamin Harrison, who had been governor of Virginia, than to any military or administrative talent that he himself had demonstrated.
		After devoting his tenure as territorial governor to negotiating the western Indian tribes out of millions of acres, he commanded a force of militia and regulars that put down a Shawnee uprising at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/presidents/harrison_williamhenry.html (427 words)

	Indiana Local History
		+ 1787 - 1800 : The Northwest Territory + 1800 - 1816 : The Indiana Territory +
		Samuel de Champlain, governor of New France and the founder of Quebec, was believed to be the first of the French explorers to be connected with the Maumee region.
		Indiana adopted a state constitution that included a measure protecting the property rights of married women.
	home.att.net /~Local_History/IN_Timeline.htm (2862 words)

	William Henry Harrison and the West
		The territory was divided into Ohio and Indiana territories in 1800, and in 1801, on the expiry of his term as delegate, he was appointed Governor of Indiana Territory and removed to the small French village of Vincennes, the capital of Indiana.
		Governor Shelby of Kentucky urged that a board be named to handle military decisions on the spot in the west.
		Governor Meigs had been offended by offhand remarks of Harrison's that implied that he was ineffective and an old woman, and naming the fort after him probably mollified the injured party.
	www.du.edu /%7Ejcalvert/hist/harrison.htm (20204 words)

	First Indiana College Chartered 200 Years Ago (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was Nov. 29, 1806, that the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives of the Indiana Territory enacted the Charter for Vincennes University.
		The Charter was signed by William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory, who also served as chair of the boards of Vincennes University and its predecessor, Jefferson Academy, founded in 1801.
		The first document to receive the official postmark was a reaffirmation of the charter, signed by the VU Board of Trustees and mailed to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
	www.vinu.edu /cms/opencms/articles/items/article_0070.html (288 words)

	Corydon Who's Who (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was the third governor of Indiana from 1822-1825, and I lived in the Governor's Headquarters.
		I was elected as the first governor of Indiana when it became a state in 1816.
		Who am I? ____ I was the first governor of the Indiana Territory and I owned the land where Corydon now stands.
	www.usi.edu /extserv/corydon/whoswho.htm (236 words)

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