Manuscripts relating to the early history of the Connecticut Western Reserve, 1795-1869.

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Manuscripts relating to the early history of the Connecticut Western Reserve, 1795-1869.

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Records of the Connecticut Land Company, including articles of association, proceedings, reports, minutes, accounts, records of drafts, and other papers, 1795-1827; land surveys, field notes, and plats of early Western Reserve surveyors, 1796-1815; journals and diaries of early residents, 1765-1807; correspondence; newspaper clippings; statements in response to John Barr and others soliciting information on the early history of Cleveland and the Western Reserve; writings of Charles Whittlesey on topics such as the 1797 surveying party, local town histories, history of the Northwest Territory; biographical sketches of early settlers, including Lorenzo Carter, Simon Perkins, Abraham and Benjamin Tappan, and John Walworth; and miscellaneous papers relating to the early history of Cleveland and the Western Reserve, including John Heckewelder's description of northeast Ohio, 1796. Many of the documents in the collection are transcripts of items collected by John Barr and Charles Whittlesey 1840-1860. Also included in the register are two appendices. Appendix I is an alphabetical list by township of land surveys and plats contained in the collection. Appendix II is a conversion chart listing old and new citations to containers and folder numbers within the collection.

2.6 linear ft.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7043667

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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There are 26 Entities related to this resource.

Tappan, Abraham, approximately 1779-1855

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Surveyor and postmaster of Unionville, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1803-1852 / Abraham Tappan. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 19933369 ...

Huntington, Samuel, 1765-1817

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Born in Coventry, Conn., Oct. 4,1765; adopted & educated by his uncle Samuel; (1731-1796); grad. at Yale,1785; adm. to the bar, Norwich,1793; removed to Cleveland,1801; to Painesville, Ohio, 1805; judge of court of common pleas,1802-03; of superior court, 1803; afterward chief justice member of 1st constitutional convention of Ohio,1802 & Senator in 1st legislator; Governor of Ohio, 1808-10 one the proprietors of Fairport, found 1812; district paymaster, colonel, 1812-14; died in Painesv...

Atkins, Quintus Flaminius, 1782-1859.

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Local official and farmer, of Morgan and Brooklyn, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1805-1854. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 43933345 Local official and farmer, of Morgan Township, Ashtabula Co., Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1803-1876. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18726664 ...

Walworth, John, 1765-1812.

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Pease, Seth, 1764-1819

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Surveyor of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio. Served as the first assistant U.S. postmaster general under Gideon Granger, Jr. From the description of Seth Pease journal excerpts and letters, with Robert Morris deed, 1792-1799 (bulk 1798-1799).. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 76158983 Surveyor. From the description of Seth Pease papers, 1796-1800. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64074816 ...

Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844

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Surveyor, soldier, and banker, of Ohio. Perkins was highly instrumental in the settlement of the Western Reserve (Ohio) and in the founding of the city of Akron, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1801-1919. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18375963 Simon Perkins (1771-1844) was a surveyor, soldier, land agent, postmaster, and banker who played a major role in the early development of the Western Reserve. Born on September 17, 1771 to Simon...

Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857

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Jurist, lawyer, and U.S. senator of Ohio. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Tappan, 1799-1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068238 American Senator, lawyer and anti-slavery leader. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to William Cullen Bryant, 1839 Dec. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270579143 Jurist and U.S. senator from Ohio. From the description of Benjamin Tappan papers, 1795-1900 (bulk 1795...

Robbins, Thomas, 1777-1856

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Connecticut clergyman, educational reformer, and anitquarian, who served various Congregational pastorates in Connecticut and Massachusetts, as well as missionary tours of Vermont, New York, and the Western Reserve of Ohio. From the description of Speech draft, ca. 1830. (Hartford Public Library). WorldCat record id: 53020629 Robbins was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, the son of the Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Robbins. He graduated from both Yale College and Williams College and st...

Barr, John, 1926-

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Prominent Clevelander and officer of various literary and historical organizations. From the description of Papers, 1842-1873. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22300995 ...

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. ...

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 ...

Stoddard, Richard M.

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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...

Hudson, David, 1761-1836

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Redfield, Nathan.

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Spafford, Amos, 1753-1816

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Harmon, John, 1789-1871.

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Wadsworth, Frederick, 1786-1869

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Son of General Elijah Wadsworth of Canfield, Trumbull (later Mahoning) County, Ohio. From the description of History of Canfield, Ohio / by the Hon. Frederick Wadsworth and Elisha Whittlesey. [ca. 1860] (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22291944 ...

Holley, John Milton.

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Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886

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Army officer, lawyer, and geologist, of Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1827-1897. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18446173 Soldier, lawyer, geologist, and historian who resided in Cleveland, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1806-1909 / Charles Whittlesey. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 19898834 From the description of Charles Whittlesey papers, 1806-1909 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Li...

Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823

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John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary. From the description of Letters and manuscripts, 1741-1822. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523571 From the description of Journey with the commissioners to the Indian treaty, 1793. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122579018 From the description of Letters and papers, 1789-1796. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 1225...

Clarke, James S.

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Palmer, Caleb.

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Warren, Moses, J.P.

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Carter, Lorenzo, 1767-1814.

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Walworth, Ashbel W., 1790-1844.

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