Connecticut archives. Susquehannah settlers, 1st series [microform] 1755-1797. Western lands, 1st series, 1783-1789. 1755-1796.

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Connecticut archives. Susquehannah settlers, 1st series [microform] 1755-1797. Western lands, 1st series, 1783-1789. 1755-1796.

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This series contanins acts, resolves, petitions, committee reports, deeds, etc. relating to the Susquehanna Company, the settlement of Westmoreland County, the Wyoming Valley massacre of 1778, the Delaware Company, the Connecticut Land Company, the Connecticut gore lands, and the settlement of the western lands belonging to Connecticut. The arrangement is chronological under Susquehanna settlers and Western lands.

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Susquehannah Company

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Delaware Company

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Connecticut. General Assembly

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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...