nominations for the Legislative Counsil: Indiana moved to the second grade of territorial government after Governor William Henry Harrison called for a plebiscite on the issue, which was held on 11 Sep. 1804. A small proportion of the electorate participated, the majority of which voted in favor of the move. Following a structure adopted from that of the Northwest Territory, the territorial House of Representatives then chose ten men as candidates to sit on a legislative council and forwarded their names to TJ, who was to select five (William Wesley Woollen, Daniel Wait Howe, and Jacob Piatt Dunn, eds., Executive Journal of Indiana Territory, 1800-1816 [Indianapolis, 1900], 124-5; Vincennes Indiana Gazette, 7 Aug. 1804; Aurora, 25 Oct. 1804; U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States … 1789 to March 3, 1845, Boston, 1855-56, 8 vols. description ends , 1:50-3; 2:58-9; TJ to William Henry Harrison, 28 Apr. 1805).

Kyrkengdol: Jacob Kuykendall (Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934-75, 28 vols. description ends , 7:262).