For The Reporter
What do these three things have to do with each other: a piece of swamp land in Hamilton County, a North Carolina church, and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? If you live in Westfield, they are all related to your history.
In 1832, Asa and Susannah Bales relocated from North Carolina to Indiana. They came here with people from their church. They were Quakers who were part of what was known as the Little Quaker Migration that happened throughout Indiana and Ohio from 1820 to 1840…