Westlake, W. B. (1903) Map of Grant County, Indiana
. Madison, Ind.: W.B. Westlake. [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593196/.

Grant County was at one time a part of the county Knox, but at the time of its organization was included within the limits of Delaware County. The inconvenience to the settlers of transacting county business at Muncie became so great that in 1831 a petition was presented to the legislature praying for the organization of a new county, and in response to that petition the following act was passed :

AN ACT FOR THE FORMATION OF THE COUNTY OF GRANT, AND FOR ATTACHING CERTAIN TERRITORY HEREIN NAMED. (Approved, February 10, 1831.)

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that from and after the first day of April next, all that tract of country included in the following boundaries shall form and constitute the county of Grant, in memory of Capt. Samuel Grant and Moses Grant of Kentukcy, who fell in the battle with the Indians in the year 1789, in that part of the State of Indiana now know as Switzerland County to wit: Beginning on the llline dviding the counties of Madison and Delaware, three miles north of township line dividing township twenty-one and twenty-two in range eight east; thence south to the corner of Delaware County; thence east six miles to the range line dividing nie and ten; thence north to the township line, dividing townships twenty-five and twenty-six in range nine east; thence west on said line to intersect a line ranging with side of Madison County; thence south twenty-one miles; thence east to place of beginning.

Section 2. That the new county of Grant shall form and, after the said first day of May next, enjoy all the rights and privileges, benefits and jurisditions which to separate or independent counties do or may properly belong or appertain.

Section 3. That Charles W. Ewing, of the county of Cass; James Scott, of the county of Madison; William Edwards and William Hunt, of the county of Randolph, and Peter Nolin, of the county of Delaware, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners agreeable to “an act fixing the seat of justice in all new counties hereafter to be laid off.” The commissioners aforesaid shall meet on the second Monday in May next, at the house of David Branson, in said county of Grant, and shall immediately proceed to discharge the duties assigned them by law; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of Madison County to notify said commissioners, either in person or writing, of their appointment, on or before the 15th of April netxt and for such service he shall receive such compensation as the board doing county business in said county of Grant, may, when organized, deem just and reasonable, to be allowed and paid as other county claims.

Section 4. The circuit court and board of county commissioners, when elected, under the writ of election from the executive department, shall hold their sessions as near the center of the county as a convenient place can be had, until the public buildings shall have been erected, and the said comissioners shall each be entitled to the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day for their services, whilst transacting county business.

Section 5. The agent who shall be appointed to superintend the sale of lots at the county seat of said county of Grant, shall receive ten per cent out of proceeds thereof, and pay the same over to such person or persons as may be appointed by law to receive the same for use of county library.

Section 6. The county of Grant shall be attached to the first judicial circuit of this State, for the judicial, and to the county of Delaware for representative purposes.

Section 7. That the strip of land lying between the north line of county of Madion, and south line of the said county of Grant be, and the same is hereby attached to the county of Madison.

Section 8. All the territory north of the county of Grant, to the line dividing townships thirty and thirty-one, shall be attached to said county.

Section 9. The Territory by this attached to said countty of Grant shall form and constitutte a part of said county until otherwise provided by law, and the citizens residing in said attached territory shall enjoy all the rights and priveleges of citizens of the county to which they are attached.

This act to take affect and be in force from and after its passage.

History of Grant County, Indiana, from the earliest time to the present : with biographical sketches, notes, etc., together with an extended history of the northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the state of Indiana, pp.270-71