170
OHIO HISTORY
from 1811 to 1881," Fire Lands
Pioneer, New Series, I (1882), 75.
82 James E. Gray, The Family Record
and History of Rev. David and Naomi Gray (Indianapolis.
1887), 102-103; Minutes, III,
181, 290.
83 William Herr to Williams and
Killrath, July 8, 1844. Williams Collection.
84 Williams and Killrath to Herr, August
7, 1844. Williams Collection.
85 Minutes, III, 516-517.
86 William D. Barrett to James B.
Finley, March 7, 1837, Finley Papers: Minutes, II, 356, 420.
87 Werter R. Davis to James B. Finley,
December 18, [1845]. Finley Papers.
88 Finley to Davis, July 18, 1846.
Finley Papers.
89 Davis to Finley, July 27, 1846.
Finley Papers.
90 He returned to the Eaton Circuit in the fall of 1846, but during the
following year Finley
received a letter from his son-in-law
saying that "Bro. Davis is not desired back." Davis did leave
Eaton for Finley Chapel in Dayton, named
in honor of James B. Finley, where he served from
1848 to 1850. The next two years he was
at Lebanon and his last year in Ohio (1852-53) was at
Hamilton and Rossville. John C. Brooke
to Finley, August 27, 1847, Finley Papers; Minutes, IV,
167, 289, 383, 517, 662: V, 121, 294.
91 Davis to Finley, May 18, 1852. Finley
Papers.
92 Homer K. Ebright, The History of
Baker University (Baldwin, Kans., 1951), 58-60.
93 See Finley, Sketches of Western
Methodism, 185-192, 317-329, for biographies of Sale and
Collins.
94 John Sale to James B. Finley, May 17,
1825. Finley Papers.
95 J. Hendershott to James B. Finley,
September 25, 1848. Finley Papers.
96 John P. Finley to James B. Finley,
August 29, 1821. Finley Papers.
97 C. C. Hood to James B. Finley, August
1, 1845. Finley Papers.
98 Henry Wilson to James B. Finley,
August 29, 1846. Finley Papers.
99 Members of the Germantown Station to Conference at
Mansfield, 1831. Manuscripts of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio, Ohio
Historical Society. The circuit name was changed
from Greenville to Eaton. Minutes, II,
81, 124.
100 Joseph Tarkington, Autobiography
of Rev. Joseph Tarkington (Cincinnati,
1899), 21-22.
The reference is in the introduction by
T. A. Goodwin.
101 Gray, Family Record, 83-84.
102 Minutes of the Cincinnati Annual
Conference (Cincinnati, 1853), 41.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE
LAW IN THE EASTERN OHIO VALLEY
1 A grant from the Penrose Fund of the
American Philosophical Society made it possible for
the author to do some of the research
upon which this article is based.
2 Pittsburgh Gazette, October 17, 1850.
3 Communication signed "Many
Masters" in Frankfort (Weekly) Commonwealth, May 21, 1850;
Congressional Globe, 31 cong., 1 sess., 123.
4 Congressional Globe, 31 cong., 1 sess., 79.
5 For a discussion of the fugitive slave
question, see Larry Gara, The Liberty Line: The Legend
of the Underground Railroad (Lexington, Ky., 1961), Chap. 3.
3 Delaware State Journal (Wilmington), April 1, 1851; "The Fugitive Slave
Law," reprinted
from Brownson's Quarterly Review (Boston)
in National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York),
August 28, 1851.
7 Tri-Weekly Maysville Eagle, November 5, 1857; Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, June
16, 1857.
8 Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, March 15, 1851.
9 Pittsburgh Gazette, September 24, 1850: Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, October
12, 1850.
10 Pittsburgh Gazette, November 4, 1850; Cincinnati Daily
Enquirer, October 12, 1850.
11 Thomas Garrett to William Lloyd
Garrison, December 5, 1850, William Lloyd Garrison
Papers, Boston Public Library; David
Evans Journal, entry for December 1, 1850, Chester County
Historical Society, West Chester, Pa.: Anti-Slavery
Bugle (Salem, Ohio), October 12, 1850.
12 This information is taken from Samuel
May, Jr., The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims
(New York, 1861). In this pamphlet May
included virtually all cases of rendition and prosecution
under the 1850 law in addition to much
other information, all from the abolitionist point of view.
13 Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, August
18, 1853.
14 Ibid., February 2, March 2, 12, April 24, 25, 1856.
15 Ibid., November 10, 1857.