Samuel Huntington correspondence, 1801-1817 [microform].

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Samuel Huntington correspondence, 1801-1817 [microform].

Letters to Huntington relating to Ohio politics and elections, land transactions, War of 1812, and settlement and development of the Western Reserve. Correspondents include Henry Champion, Moses Cleaveland, Gideon Granger, Stanley Griswold, Return J. Meigs, Jeremiah Morrow, Calvin Pease, John Smith, Amos Spafford, Edward Tiffin, George Tod, Elisha Tracy, Elijah Wadsworth, and Thomas Worthington.

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Tod, George, 1773-1841

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Trumbull County, Ohio lawyer, tax appraiser and road commissioner who became a state senator (1804-1806, and 1810-1812), Ohio Supreme Court judge (1807-1810) and judge of the Ohio Circuit Court of Appeals, 3rd District (1816-1829). He also served as an officer during the War of 1812. From the description of Papers, 1783-1834. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17725143 ...

Wadsworth, Elijah, 1747-1816 or 1817

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Elijah Wadsworth was a Western Reserve pioneer who came from Litchfield, Conn. to Canfield, Ohio in 1802. He was sheriff of Trumbull County and Major-General of the 4th Division, Ohio Militia during the War of 1812. His son, Frederick, was sheriff of Portage County, Ohio. Wedworth Wadsworth, a cousin, lived in Durham, Connecticut. From the description of Elijah Wadsworth family papers, 1792-1868 [microform]. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 45857229 From t...

Morrow, Jeremiah, 1771-1852

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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. ...

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...

Tiffin, Edward, 1766-1829

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U.S. senator and first governor of Ohio. He was an early settler of Chillicothe, Ohio and also served as U.S. Commissioner of Public Lands (1812-1814) and Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory (1814-1829). He was also a lay preacher and a doctor. From the description of Papers, 1785-1853. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17725189 Surveyor General of the United States, from Ohio where he had served as a congressman and governor for that state. ...

Worthington, Thomas, 1773-1827

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Ohio state representative, state senator and governor of Ohio. From the description of Papers of Thomas Worthington [microform], 1796-1827. (Ohio Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 38901293 U.S. senator and governor of Ohio. From the description of Papers of Thomas Worthington, 1795-1827. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84170288 From the description of Diaries and letterbooks of Thomas Worthington, 1801-1827. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067873 ...

Champion, Henry, 1751-1836

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Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822

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American politician and Post Master General under Jefferson and Madison. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Canandaigua, to Samuel M. Hopkins, Esq., 1817 Dec. 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269567163 American politician and P.M. general under Jefferson and Madison. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to Bliss, Esq., 1803 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269587231 American politician and Postmaster ...

Pease, Calvin, 1776-1839

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Lawyer, legislator and judge, of Ohio. He served as judge of the Third Circuit, Court of Common Pleas (1803-10), and justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1816-30). From the description of Papers, 1798-1841. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22419748 Calvin Pease was a lawyer, legislator and judge, of Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Pease came to the Western Reserve from Connecticut in 1800. He was admitted to the bar and was...

Spafford, Amos.

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Tracy, Elisha, 1766-1846

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Lawyer, Connecticut state legislator, justice of the peace, and colonel in the militia; served as deputy-commissary and general agent of the federal government during the War of 1812. From the description of Elisha Tracy letter book, 1813 Oct.-1814 Nov. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71129586 From the description of Elisha Tracy letter book, 1812 Oct.-1813 Oct. (New London County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 166428828 ...

Griswold, Stanley, 1763-1815

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Griswold was a Congregational clergyman in New Milford, Conn. (1789-1803). His Republican political sympathies made life uncomfortable in Federalist Connecticut. He left the ministry in 1803 and served as secretary of Michigan territory and as a circuit judge in the Illinois territory. From the description of Sermons, 1789-1803. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612373284 Born in Torrington, Conn., Nov. 14, 1753; served in the Revolution; graduated from Yale in 1786;...

Meigs, Return Jonathan, 1764-1825

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Known as Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.; son of Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. [sic]. Territorial and state official in Ohio; U.S. postmaster general 1814-1823. From the description of ALS : to Isaac Craig, 1796 July 8. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122541808 Ohio pioneer, politician, governor of Ohio, and U.S. senator. From the description of Letters, 1818-1820. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49253041 U.S. senator ...