Moses Cleaveland letter to Joseph Brant, 1796 May 26.

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Moses Cleaveland letter to Joseph Brant, 1796 May 26.

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Autograph letter signed from Moses Cleaveland to Capt. Joseph Brant informing him that Cleaveland has been appointed to begin the survey and settlement of lands in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Cleaveland expresses his willingness to act honorably and honestly and requests a meeting be convened at Buffalo Creek. The letter is dated 26 May 1796 from "La Canandaigua" and may be a draft, as it includes several corrections in the handwriting of Cleaveland.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807

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Joseph Brant, also known as Thayendanega, (born March 1743 in Ohio Country along the Cuyahoga River - died Burlington Beach, Upper Canada, November 24, 1807), Mohawk Chief and an officer in the British military during the American Revolutionary War. He served in expeditions during the French and Indian War. As a Captain during the American Revolution, he led the four Iroquois Nations that sided with the British as well as a group of loyalists. He married three times, lastly to Catharine Adonwent...

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. ...

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...