A map in the book, "Indiana to 1816," by Barnhart and Riker, shows this strip or "gore" of land (plus parts of Ohio and Switzerland Counties) was not part of the treaties with the Indians that Governor Harrison effected from 1803-1809. Most of northern Indiana was acquired later, but I suspect this land was sold as part of Ohio. *************** An Early History of Indiana!!! The Greeneville Treaty (1797) named as "Indiana Territory" (Indian territory) everything west of the Great Miami River (Cincinnati to Dayton to Lake St Marys). It named the western Treaty Line as going from Fort Recovery (north of Greeneville OH) on an angle to the mouth of the Kentucky River (on the Ohio R), or about 10 miles east of Madison IN (at that point at the River, the county line of Switzerland Co IN). This passes almost directly through Richmond IN and south along the Whitewater River through Wayne (eventually Union) and Franklin Cos, to be the western edge of Dearborn and Ohio Counties. -The Ohio State Line (1803), went due north from the mouth of the Great Miami River, west side of now Cincinnati). -This section of land west of the Ohio State Line to the Greeneville Treaty Line was called "The Gore". For the Four Mile Church (including most of the children of Elder Jacob Miller - 1805-6), we were mostly just over the Ohio State line, in "the Gore". Survey of this land was 1803-1805. This made most of our settlement in Indiana Territory. -John Gaby and Susannah Gaby Fiant (husband Daniel Fiant) (younger children of Elder Martin Gaby of the Oley Church, earliest Pennsylvania) came in 1802 (before the Survey) and settled on the west bank of the Whitewater river NW of now Liberty IN (Yankeetown - West of the Treaty Line - thus, they were "squatters" - not legal settlers) - where the Delaware Indian Road forded the river (Ft Hamilton OH - to Chief Muncy's Town - Muncie IN). They built a first mill there. This was some 10 miles west of where the Miller families settled on Four Mile Creek. [The Gaby Fiant families later moved some 5 miles west, into Fayette Co (north of Springerville IN) - with their own stories -even a Real Ghost.] (see a paper on these settlements - "The Virginia Colony" - on-line at the Union County Library - Liberty IN) We were considered simply the western limit of the western Ohio Brethren settlements. In our 1809 founding, the Four Mile Church was the 4th Brethren church north of the Ohio River (Obannon Creek, 1797 - east of Cincinnati; Lower Miami, 1805 - west edge of Dayton; Twin Creek; 1808 - northern Preble Co OH) (not considering the Brush Creek settlement in Highland Co OH - John Countryman - sometime after 1805). About this time, John Conner founded Conner's Trading Post at now Connersville IN. (John, with his brother, William, were traders for the Delaware Indians on the White River [Muncie-Anderson IN] - and founded the Delaware Indian Road - William built "Conners Prairie" - State Historical Center north of Indianapolis). Tecumseh's Warriors used the Delaware Indian Road (but the Delaware Indians refused to allow them to pass as "Warriors"). [The Delaware Indians here were Moravian Christian converts, survivors from the Massacre of Schoenbrunn Village - NE Ohio, Revolution.] -A road from Dayton OH, through Eaton, went to Conner's Trading Post (going through Boston IN - where I live - one mile from the Ohio State Line) - this was followed by Elder Jacob Miller as he came to visit his children here on the Four Mile (south of Boston). -About this same time, the extension of the Kanawha Trace brought the Quakers from North Carolina to Richmond (have a Way Bill - 1809) - going from New Garden NC, across West Virginia and Ohio, through Eaton OH to Richmond IN - almost certainly by way of Boston (not named - too early for a name - 1-2 settlers). -Another early road (the earliest) was the Army Road from Ft Greeneville to Ft Vincennes - also going through now Richmond. (Ft Greeneville closed about 1800 - so this was EARLY - and there was considerable traffic on it - if iron clad wheels that cut an inch or so into bed rock in Martin Co IN is the actual Ft Greeneville Ft Vincennes Army Road [on the top of the hill back of our farm at the old "Sampson Hill Church of the Brethren", near Shoals IN (Lacy), where Dad pastored].) The Army Road was almost certainly the cause of the location of the first County Seat of Wayne Co IN - at Salisbury (1810) - SW of Richmond. -The Eaton Salisbury Road also went through Boston. Governor William Henry Harrison (later President) "reviewed the troops" at Boston [NAMED!] in 1811 (actually west of here, on the Eaton Salisbury Road (at the Strait Line Pike, south of Richmond). He had come from Ft Vincennes on the Army Road. This area must be considered an active frontier settlement - long before the National Road (1828) came through. Richmond IN actually grew, because it was the terminus of the National Road from 1828 till 1835, until they finally crossed the "Whitewater River Gorge" in Richmond to go on to St Louis - on the Mississippi River. The 12 Mile Purchase (1809) paralleled the Greeneville Treaty Line - 12 miles west. It went through the eastern edge of Hagerstown IN. The Nettle Creek Church (1822) was formed there on the Delaware Indian Road - west of the Treaty Line (uh-oh - squatters), in the lovely Nettle Creek valley west of town. -It was about this time that several of the Elder Jacob Miller grandchildren (and their parents) moved to the lower "Wabash Country" in Parke and Putnam Cos - western Indiana. This is where the Raccoon Creek Church was founded by Elder William R Smith. -It was from Nettle Creek, that the two youngest sons of Elder Jacob Miller went on to near South Bend Indiana in 1829 - the Portage Prairie Church. -And it was following the 1832 Cholera Epidemic that a major migration of Four Mile and Dayton area young families moved to "Wabash Country" of Peru, Kokomo and Flora IN, with the formation of several early Brethren Churches in that region. -Indiana was opening to settlement, as the Indians were removed. Merle C Rummel