1780s

18th century 4 dated mentions

1780s

1. 1781
   The traders before the post: the valley line, person by person

   Antoine LeClare: Anson calls LeClare the first resident of the St. Joseph Valley: he settled a few miles upriver from Fort St. Joseph in 1781, soon after the fort's destruction — the line's first name, at the fort's own ground.

   Mishawaka

2. 1787–1850
   First families of record: the Black Laws, the county's first settlement, and the Powell freedom case

   Indiana was technically a free state — the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the state constitution of 1816 both banned slavery — and practically a closed one.

   Granger

3. 1787–1850
   First families of record: the Black Laws, the county's first settlement, and the Powell freedom case

   Indiana was technically a free state — the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the state constitution of 1816 both banned slavery — and practically a closed one.

   Osceola

4. 1789–1790
   Henry Hay's winter

   The young trader Henry Hay wintered at Kekionga in 1789–90 and kept the diary that remains the best everyday description of the town before the armies came: the councils, the dances, the comings and goings of traders and war parties at the gate.

   Fort Wayne