Chiefs of the Six Nations letter to Moses Cleaveland, 1796 June 6.

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Chiefs of the Six Nations letter to Moses Cleaveland, 1796 June 6.

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Autograph letter from chiefs of the Six Nations at Buffalo Creek in reply to a request by Moses Cleaveland to convene a conference to discuss surveying the Connecticut Western Reserve. The letter is dated 6 June 1796 from Buffaloe [sic] Creek and includes the marks of Farmer [sic] Brother, Red Jacket, and Young King.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8209435

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Six Nations

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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. From the description of Chiefs of the Six Nations letter to Moses Cleaveland, 17...

Red Jacket, Seneca chief, approximately 1756-1830

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David Thompson was the postmaster, contractor's agent and commissary at Fort Niagara Garrison, New York, 1797-1804. From the description of Red Jacket's speech : Buffalo Creek manuscript 1802-1804 Sept. 28, 1803. (Tulsa City-County Library). WorldCat record id: 262845953 Red Jacket was a Seneca chief who was born ca. 1756 at or near Canoga, Seneca County, New York. He remained faithful to the British during the Revolutionary War. In 1792 he visited P...

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...

Young King (Seneca chief), 1760-1835.

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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. ...

Farmer's Brother, approximately 1730-1841

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