1790s

18th century 2 dated mentions

1790s

1. 1793–1866
   The law over their heads, whole: fugitive machinery, the Black Laws, Article XIII, and the register that does not survive for this county

   The federal machinery came first, and the Norris charge states it: the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 let a master or agent seize an absconding person and take him before a judge to prove the claim, and laid a $500 penalty, recoverable by the claimant, on anyone who obstructed the arrest, rescued the fugitive, or…

   Granger

2. 1795
   The treaties that did not touch this ground

   Proximity is not cession, and the instruments that passed this ground by are named so that none is ever inflated into a taking: The Treaty of Greenville (1795) ceded the Ohio country and a schedule of reserved tracts about the lakes and the Wabash posts; none of its ground lies in the St. Joseph valley.

   Granger