Editing Boone County, Indiana (section)

==History==
In 1787, the fledgling United States defined the [[Northwest Territory]], which included the area of present-day Indiana. In 1800, Congress separated [[Ohio]] from the Northwest Territory, designating the rest of the land as the [[Indiana Territory]].<ref name=GAC/> President [[Thomas Jefferson]] chose [[William Henry Harrison]] as the territory's first governor, and [[Vincennes, Indiana|Vincennes]] was established as the territorial capital.<ref>{{cite book|title=Indiana|author=Brill, Marlene Targ|year=2005|publisher=[[Marshall Cavendish]]|page=35|isbn=978-0-7614-2020-0}}</ref> After the [[Michigan Territory]] was separated and the [[Illinois Territory]] was formed, Indiana was reduced to its current size and geography.<ref name=GAC>{{cite web|title=Government at Crossroads: An Indiana chronology|website=[[The Herald Bulletin]]|date=January 5, 2008|url=http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/local_news/government-at-crossroads-an-indiana-chronology/article_3a07aa44-1cd4-5028-82e7-96b907121b31.html?mode=jqm|access-date=July 22, 2009}}</ref> By December 1816 the Indiana Territory was admitted to the Union as a state.

Starting in 1794, Native American titles to Indiana lands were extinguished by usurpation, purchase, or war and treaty. The United States acquired land from the [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] in the [[Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)|1809 treaty of Fort Wayne]], and by the [[Treaty of St. Mary's (1818)|treaty of St. Mary's in 1818]] considerably more territory became property of the government. This included the future Boone County, designating areas covered by the Delaware New Purchase.

Boone County was created by the state legislature on April 1, 1830, with [[Jamestown, Indiana|Jamestown]] (which had been first settled that year) named as the initial county seat. The county was named for frontiersman [[Daniel Boone]].<ref>Harden and Spahr 1887, p. 10.</ref> The interim county commissioners met on May 1 of the following year to identify a permanent seat of government, which by law had to be within {{convert|2|mi|km}} of the county's center; the [future] city of [[Lebanon, Indiana|Lebanon]] was selected to serve this purpose.<ref>Harden and Spahr 1887, p. 37.</ref>