1810s

19th century 3 dated mentions

1810s

1. 1810–1882
   John D. DeFrees: the printer who started the city's press — and Colfax

   John Dougherty DeFrees (1810–1882): the man who brought printing to northern Indiana and, with it, the region's political class.

2. 1816–1881
   The law over their heads · the Black Laws, Article XIII, and the register that does not survive

   The framework the community lived under: Indiana's first constitution, in 1816, banned slavery outright, and the ban was never the whole of the law.

3. 1818
   Commitment: the law's local course

   An act of 1818 empowered the circuit courts to conduct inquests into cases of suspected insanity and to appoint guardians for persons adjudged insane; later acts gave the courts the power to commit such persons to the state hospitals.