Indiana Documents Leading to Statehood

The Indiana Supreme Court and the Indiana Historical Bureau are collaborating on a major project to gather in one place copies of original documents and research materials relating to Indiana's constitutional history. View and search the collection

• The Virginia Cession
• Land Ordinance of 1785
• The Northwest Ordinance, 1787
• Greenville Treaty
• Act Creating Indiana Territory, 1800
• Harrison Land Act, 1800
• Proclamation: For an election on entering second territorial stage
• Proclamation: Announcing that Indiana Territory had passed to the second grade
• Petition to Congress by Democratic Republicans of Wayne County
• Act Dividing Indiana Territory, 1805
• The Territorial Legislature to the President
• The President to the Territorial Legislature
• The Suffrage Act, 1808
• Act Dividing Indiana Territory, 1809
• Treaty with the Delawares, etc., 1809
• The Suffrage Act, 1809
• The State Capital Act, 1813
• Memorial for Statehood, 1815
• The Enabling Act, 1816
• Letter from the Congressional Delegate
• Knox County convention election, 1816
• Capital of Indiana Territory by Richard Day
• Journal of the Convention of the Indiana Territory - complete text
• Members of the Constitutional Convention of 1816
• Constitution of 1816
• Constitution of 1851 as originally written
• Indiana's Constitution Today