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ROWS #648–#653 · THE RECORD AS IT STANDS · NOVEMBER 2026
DUG: the county's documented case whole (#648, county strength, Penn seat negative); the price of the rescue in both actions, with amounts (#649); the traffic frame at state and county strength (#650); the station claims one by one, with the Bartlett house failing and the James Washington station passing at the carrier's strength (#651); the antebellum law whole — Black Laws, the 1831 bond, Article XIII, the state vote in both tellings, colonization's fund, the 1866 voiding and 1881 removal (#652, state strength); the counted community, 0 / 0 / 13 (#653, at published-table strength).
GAP-UGRR-1 — St. Joseph County's own Article XIII return. Settler: the county poll books and clerk's certified return, June 1851 election (Indiana State Archives; St. Joseph County Public Library). GAP-UGRR-2 — whether a St. Joseph County Negro Register survives. Settler: Robbins, Indiana Negro Registers, 1852–1865, checked by county, and the State Archives' holdings. GAP-UGRR-3 — the names of Penn's thirteen colored residents of 1870. Settler: the 1870 manuscript schedules for Penn Township, with 1880 as check. GAP-UGRR-4 — a printed county answer to colonization, 1851–1855. Settler: the St. Joseph Valley Register / South Bend press at full-text strength.
TESTED NEGATIVE, and printed as findings: a Penn-seated seizure, rescue or party to the Powell case; a Penn-priced penalty or damages suit; a documented Penn route or passage; a Penn station claim in any carrier reached; a Penn colonization meeting or emigrant; a counted Penn abolitionist presence.