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Surveys were never made, however, and that treaty does 

 not figure in the land titles of today. It was the Indian Boundary 

 Line treaty in 1816 that finally fixed definitely the dividing line 

 between White man's and Red man's ground in Cook County. 

 Rogers Avenue follows the line of the northern boundary today. 



In the meantime first substantial settlement of Chicago and 

 Cook County by Americans came with the government's decision 

 to deal firmly with the unruly Indians by establishment of Fort 

 Dearborn at the mouth of the river. With the fort, or shortly 

 afterward, came John Kinzie. 



That settlement and its tragic ending in the Fort Dearborn 

 massacre summer of 1812 is one of the most stirring periods 

 in Chicago's history and like all others it finds amplification of 

 the story in the lands that constitute Cook County's forest pre- 

 serve districts. 



Land grants that involved the woodland along the Chicago 

 river (north branch) and the Desplaines, then known as the 

 Riviere Aux Pleins, present a phase of those perilous days which 

 has received but scant attention from historians. 



One section of that land went originally to Claude La Fram- 

 boise, a French voyageur whose wife, Josette, was in the house- 

 hold of John Kinzie at the time of the Indian outbreak. An- 

 other went to Achange Ouilmette, Indian wife of Antoine, like- 

 wise a massacre hero. 



Voctoire Pothier and Jane Miranda won title to tracts on 

 the Chicago River, presumably their reward for parts played in 

 the earlier tragedy that crept into the life of Kinzie before the 

 massacre. Mrs. Pothier or Porthier was an eye-witness to the 

 shooting of John Lalime. 



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