Editing Jay County, Indiana (section)

==History==
The Indiana State Legislature passed an omnibus county bill on February 7, 1835<ref>[https://archive.org/details/standardhistoryo01tynd/page/286/mode/2up John W. Tyndall & OE Lesh, ''Standard history of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana''. pp. 284-6 (accessed 9 August 2020)]</ref> that authorized the creation of thirteen counties<ref>The counties are Dekalb, Fulton, Jasper, Jay, Kosciusko, Marshall, Newton, Porter, Pulaski, Stark, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley. Newton County was merged with Jasper County in 1839, and was re-authorized as a separate county in 1859.</ref> in northeast Indiana, including Jay - the only county in the United States named for [[John Jay]], co-author of ''[[The Federalist Papers]]'', Secretary of Foreign Affairs under the [[Articles of Confederation]], and first [[Chief Justice of the United States]]. John Jay had died in 1829.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n167 168]}}</ref>