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===Indiana Territory=== At the organization of the [[Indiana Territory]] from the Northwest Territory in 1800, the Northwest Territory including present day Indiana was divided between [[Knox County, Indiana|Knox County]] (seat [[Vincennes, Indiana|Vincennes]]) in the south, and [[Wayne County, Michigan|Wayne County]], including northern Ohio (seat Detroit) north of Fort Wayne in the north. By the Ohio Enabling Act of 1802 settlers in the Whitewater valley became citizens of the Indiana Territory and residents of Clark county, which had been organized from the eastern part of Knox in 1801, with the county seat at Falls of the Ohio, later called [[Clarksville, Indiana|Clarksville]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barrows|first1=Frederick|title=History of Fayette County|date=1917|publisher=Bowen & Co.|pages=42β43}}</ref> On September 30, 1809, the United States, on behalf of the Northwest Territory and Governor [[William Henry Harrison]], concluded the [[Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809)|Treaty of Fort Wayne]], part of whose terms included the purchase from the Indians of a strip of land locally called "The 12 Mile Purchase" parallel to and west of "The Gore", enclosing the Whitewater Valley and comprising the largest portion of the future county. Conclusion of the treaty essentially ended Indian occupation of the county and cleared the way for settlement. In southeastern Indiana, a part of the Northwest Territory nicknamed "The Gore" was ceded from Ohio to Indiana in 1803 and became Dearborn County. [[Wayne County, Indiana|Wayne]] and [[Franklin County, Indiana|Franklin]] counties were carved from [[Dearborn County, Indiana|Dearborn]] and [[Clark County, Indiana|Clark]] counties in 1811. At that time much of southeastern Indiana was divided between the two latter counties.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barrows|first1=Frederick|title=History of Fayette County|date=1917|publisher=Bowen & Co.|page=56}}</ref>
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