Indiana

Indiana. Her 4 Stages to Statehood in 1816. I. Colonial Virginia (British) Period 1763-1789. , Before 1755, all territory west of the Allegheny Mts. to Mississippi, Gulf to N. Canada claimed by France. Called "New France" it was divided in two parts by "Halfway: Catholic Jesuit Stone Crosses, across central Indiana, Lower half Louisiana Diocese, Upper Quebec Diocese. A stone cross stood until 1870's N. at Halfway (S.R.1 and Jay Co. Rd. 800S)., After the French and Indian War, 1755-1763, this area, all of Canada, fell to victorious England, who awarded the greatest part of the Northwest to her Virginia colony., II. Northwest Territory 1789-1800 , Virginia governed her northwest county of Augusta (including the Indiana area) from 1763 until 1789, when she deeded the area to new U.S. Federal Government. She made KY. County into a new state in 1787., III. Indiana Territory 1800-1816 , Indiana Territory created in 1800 out of N.W. Territory, Illinois and Michigan Territory out of this when Indiana became a state in 1816., Population growing in cessions of 1795, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1809, with counties being formed for new state, once the Indians were removed., IV. Statehood in 1816 , 13 counties, population of 65,000 , After New Purchase Treaty of St. Mary's 1818, all central Indiana opened to land sales. New counties added rapidly. Indians removed to reservations in West by 1844. A fifth died of starvation.