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=====Land Transfer Events to Statehood (1816)=====

Colonial Land Claims 
1783    Acquired by treaty from Great Britain: Lands North of River
	Ohio, bordered on the West by the Mississippi River, with a Northern
	boundary starting at Lake of the Woods in the NorthWest continuing East
	through the center points of Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario.

1784    Virginia relinquishs claims to Central/Southern portions of Indiana.

1786    Connecticut relinquishs claims to Northern portions of Indiana.

1787    "NorthWest Territory" organized from areas of Wisconsin,
	Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, majority of Ohio, and NorthEast Minnesota.

1800    Indiana Territory organized from NorthWest Territory, taking
	Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, NorthEast Minnesota and West half of
	Michigan.  "New" NorthWest Territory made up of Ohio and East half
	of Michigan.

1809    Illinois Territory organized from Indiana Territory, consisting of
	Wisconsin, Illinois and NorthEast Minnesota.  Indiana and Upper Michigan
	remaining in Indiana Territory.

1816    Indiana admitted to the Union as 19th State.

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12/1998 M.A.Leonard, Last Update-12/23/2007