sentences:  Dennis Pennington, who lived near Lanesville, became one of the county's early leading citizens and speaker of the territory's legislature.Corydon began competing with other southern Indiana settlements to become the new capital of the territory after its reorganization in 1809.Hostilities broke out in 1811 with the Native American tribes on the frontier, and the territorial capital was moved to Corydon on May 1, 1813, after Pennington suggested that it would be safer than Vincennes.