A plan of the survey made by, & under the direction of Augustus Porter upon the Connecticut Reserve for the Connecticut Land Company in the year 1796. 1796.

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A plan of the survey made by, & under the direction of Augustus Porter upon the Connecticut Reserve for the Connecticut Land Company in the year 1796. 1796.

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1 ms map : col. ; 38 x 63.8 cm.

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Connecticut Land Company

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The Connecticut Land Company (1795-1809) was a syndicate of 35 groups representing 58 individuals who purchased on credit the majority of Connecticut's Western Reserve land as a speculative venture. Proceeds from the sale of the Reserve were used to establish the Connecticut School Fund. The Western Reserve was that area of northeastern Ohio which Connecticut reserved for her citizens in 1786 in exchange for ceding the remainder of her western land claims to the newly-formed United States govern...

Porter, Augustus, 1769-1849

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Surveyor and partner with Benjamin Barton in Porter, Barton and Company, a portage and forwarding firm, and first judge in Niagara County. From the description of Reminiscences of events connected with the early settlement of the west, 1848. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 52728188 From the description of Mortgage, 1814 Aug. 25. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33310813 ...