In 1801 he became Governor of the Indiana Territory, serving 12 years.

Indiana Territory was organized in 1800, with Vincennes as the capital.

It was later included with the Indiana Territory when this was formed in 1800.

The Indiana Territory granted the company $120,000 in starting money, and the enterprise raised more than $1.2 million from private sources.

An 1810 census recorded 393 free blacks and 237 slaves in the Indiana Territory.

The territorial government was organized similarly to that of the Indiana Territory.

The land which is now Michigan was made part of Indiana Territory in 1800.

He was appointed chancellor of the Indiana Territory in 1807.

After 1813 he moved to Madison in the Indiana Territory.

When he was eight, his family moved to a farm in the Indiana Territory.