Every dated event from both claims, merged into a single timeline. The two tracts were separate legal matters, but they ran through Baker's life — and the territorial land system — at the same time.
Proven occupancy of the Little Rock Creek tract begins (800 arpents).
Baker and Walter Crow scout and settle the Bellevue tract on Big River; a cabin is built.
Joseph Decelle, syndic at Mine à Breton, grants written permission to settle at Bellevue.
Legal cutoff date for the region; Baker's household — wife, eleven children, one enslaved person — already partly on the Bellevue tract.
Baker relocates his whole family to Bellevue; Little Rock Creek continues to be worked but is no longer the family's home.
Little Rock Creek tract formally surveyed.
Bellevue tract surveyed by John Steuart: 1,426 arpents 89 perches.
Bellevue survey recorded at St. Louis by Antoine Soulard.
Bellevue claim heard before the Board of Land Commissioners; Walter Crow testifies.
Baker testifies as a witness in neighbor John Cooper's Bellevue claim.
Bellevue claim rejected outright by the Board of Land Commissioners.
Cooper's claim — the one Baker testified in — is rejected by the Board.
Baker quitclaims his Little Rock Creek interest to Jeduthan Kendall for $100.
Little Rock Creek claim sits in administrative backlog under Kendall's ownership.
Recorder Frederick Bates recommends confirming 640 acres of Bellevue.
The same Act of Congress confirms 640 acres on both tracts in a single day — Bellevue in Baker's own name, Little Rock Creek to "Baker's representatives" (by then, Kendall).
Baker and Polly sell the confirmed 640 Bellevue acres to John Hutchings for $1,200.
Resurvey of the confirmed Bellevue 640 acres executed.
Kendall quitclaims 213 Little Rock Creek acres to Benjamin Johnston, Jr.
Bellevue resurvey formally returned to the Recorder of Land Titles.
Federal patent for Bellevue issued to "Elisha Baker's representatives" — Baker had died by this date.
Land office letter closes the Bellevue file; Baker's 1816 deed returned to Hutchings.
Part of the confirmed Bellevue acreage reaches Jordan W. Jeffress.
Sold on to Daniel Boon for $3,300.
A separate 400-acre remainder is divided between Hutchings' sons.
Austin Byrd, holder of part of the tract, dies; a probate sale petition is filed at Hillsboro.
Byrd heirs sue over title to Little Rock Creek land in Jefferson County Circuit Court.
Johnston sells 151 Little Rock Creek acres to George Engelman for $1,800.
A 22-acre Bellevue mill site, after a sheriff's sale partitioning the Thorne Byrd heirs, reaches Hanson Wallace and Preston M. Robinson.
Little Rock Creek's Survey No. 2021 is retraced by Isaac S. Baker — the last dated event in either record.