Papers, 1766-1885, bulk 1795-1860.

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Papers, 1766-1885, bulk 1795-1860.

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Papers of Elias, Orrin, Julian and Martin Harmon. Includes correspondence, diaries, financial accounts and receipts, land deeds and memoranda of sales, legal documents, estate papers, powers of attorney, tax records, notebooks, surveys, and other papers, documenting their note collection and land agency business. Also, includes material on the Protection Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Franklin and Warren Railroad, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, the Independent Knights of Temperance, and the fur trade and anti-slavery movement, with references to state and national politics, banking policies, and anti-masonic movements.

12.4 linear ft.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7043134

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Cleaveland, Moses, 1754-1806

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Moses Cleaveland was a Connecticut lawyer, legislator, and army officer who became the Director and agent for the Connecticut Land Company. Prior to leading its first surveying and exploring party into the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1795 and founding the City of Cleveland, Ohio in 1796, Cleaveland sought permission from the Six Nations to survey and settle the land that they traditionally controlled. ...

Birchard, Matthew, 1804-1876.

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Harmon, Martin S., d. 1845.

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Harmon family.

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The Harmon family moved to Mantua, Portage County, Ohio from Suffield Connecticut, in 1799. Elias Harmon held several public offices and was land agent for many Connecticut residents. His son, Orrin, was active in the land business and was surveyor for Portage County and the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. Julian Harmon was the son of Orrin. From the description of Papers, 1766-1885, bulk 1795-1860. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22407867 ...

Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal.

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Independent Knights of Temperance.

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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...

Harmon, Elias, 1775-1851.

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Sheldon, Martin, 1762-1848.

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Protection Insurance Company

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Mathew Stacey was an agent for this company in Jacksonville, Illinois. He sold fire policies in Jacksonville and the surrounding area in Morgan County. From the description of Ledger, 1841-1853. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 49700224 ...

Kent, Albert, d. 1852.

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Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850.

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Assistant surveyor in Moses Cleveland's surveying party. From the description of Journal, 1796 Apr. 13-Dec. 1. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22298801 Assistant surveyor in Moses Cleaveland's surveying party. From the description of Field notes, 1797 / Amzi Atwater. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 19795661 ...

Harmon, Julian Camillus, b. 1835.

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Harmon, Orrin, b. 1805.

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Franklin and Warren Railroad.

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