http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~deanr/ephraim_c.htm

Please read information about Judge Ephraim Cutler at this web site!

Manesseh Cutler, father of Ephraim Cutler, was co-author of the Ordinance of 1787. Article 6 in the Ordinance of 1787 prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory. (Yes I know Article 6 also specified that "those owing service" i.e. slaves, would be returned to whom they owed service, i.e. slave owners.
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In 1806 Judge Ephraim Cutler founded an Underground Railroad Station at Constitution, Washington County, Ohio, acros the Ohio River from Wood County, (West) Virginia.

Judge Cutler had previously founded a community in present day Athens, County, Ohio named Amesville, that also became an Underground Railroad Station.

I believe Constitution was the first Underground Railroad Station along the Ohio River!

Thank You,
Henry Robert Burke