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On the recordDecember 8, 1835
all that part of the Indiana Territory lying north of a line drawn due east from the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan until it shall intersect Lake Erie, and east of a line drawn from the said southerly bend through the middle of said lake to its northern extremity, and thence due north to the northern boundary of the United States
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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