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	Chapter 7 of Ohio Land Subdivisions
		Connecticut's southernmost point today is very nearly on the forty-first parallel of latitude north of the equator.
		By the King Charles charter of 1662 she was to have a strip from sea to sea bounded on the north by Massachusetts and on the south approximately by the forty-first parallel as suggested in Plate 3.
		Connecticut's first deed of cession to Congress in which the Reserve was kept by the State was executed September 13, 1786, and accepted by Congress next day.
	www.csuohio.edu /CUT/OhioLands/chapt7.html (2230 words)

	Visiting Case: Case Western Reserve University
		In 1662, Charles II of England deeded to the Colony of Connecticut a strip of land running from the Narragansett Bay to the Pacific.
		The area was known as the Connecticut Western Reserve, or simply, "The Western Reserve." Thus originated the Western Reserve, an area whose inhabitants were destined to play important parts in the political, social, industrial and educational history of the United States.
		Connecticut retained sovereignty over this area until 1800 when it was ceded to the territorial government.
	www.case.edu /visit/history/west.html (251 words)

	History
		The History of Trumbull County notes that the king conveyed to Connecticut "all the territory of the present state and all of the lands west of it, to the extent of its breadth, from sea to sea." The provisions made to the Territory of Connecticut as a result of the charter were never surpassed.
		Connecticut lost all of their land east of the western Pennsylvania boundary, with exception to its modern day holdings.
		Hubbard was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1752.
	planning.co.trumbull.oh.us /History_CAS.htm (2724 words)

	Connecticut Western Reserve
		Connecticut was one of the eastern states that had land claims in the Ohio Country going back to the colonial period.
		Connecticut gave up most of its claims to the federal government so that the Northwest Territory could be created but reserved the northeast corner of the territory for itself, which became known as the Connecticut Western Reserve.
		The Connecticut government sold the eastern portion of the reserve to the Connecticut Land Company in 1795.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=691 (294 words)

	Ohio Motorcycle Dealer - Western Reserve Harley-Davidson -Buell
		Western Reserve Harley Davidson is our corporate name, but we're family owned, friendly and want to be your dealer of choice.
		In 1786, the State of Connecticut gave up its claims to Western lands of the United States, except for a portion of northeastern Ohio known as the Connecticut Western Reserve.
		Later, the land was sold to the Connecticut Land Company, which surveyed and settled the region, but the name Connecticut Western Reserve - or just Western Reserve - continued to be used to describe the northeastern section of Ohio.
	www.westernreservehd.com /aboutus.asp (253 words)

	Presbytery of the Western Reserve
		The Presbytery of the Western Reserve is a governing body of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), organized January 20, 1973 by the authority of the Synod of the Covenant and the General Assembly, and governed by the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
		The establishment of Presbyterian and Congregational churches on the Connecticut Western Reserve was begun by the Connecticut Mission Society in 1800 and continued under the Plan of Union adopted in 1801 by the General Assembly and the General Association of Connecticut.
		The Synod of the Western Reserve was established in 1825 with the Presbyteries of Grand River, Portage, and Huron.
	www.preswesres.org /aboutus/history.html (847 words)

	CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE
		The western end of the Reserve (later Huron and Erie Counties) was set aside as the "sufferer" lands.
		It was to be given to Connecticut residents to compensate them for losses from British military actions during the Revolutionary War.
		The total population of the Western Reserve was 55,000 in 1820.
	content.bristol.lib.oh.us /connecticut.htm (662 words)

	The Cuyahoga - Chapter 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That treaty established the western boundary of the United States as a line from the mouth of the Cuyahoga upstream to the big bend, south across Portage Path to the head of the Tuscarawas to Fort Laurens, then southwest slaunchwise across Ohio to Greenville, and southwest across the bottom of Indiana country.
		Connecticut was the holdout, and she was able to drive a hard bargain for two reasons.
		Connecticut’s plan was to sell the land and use the money as the investment capital for a public school system which was to be supported on the annual yield from that money.
	www.clevelandmemory.org /ellis/chap06.html (6451 words)

	Congress Grants Connecticut the Western Reserve
		Congress granted Connecticut a portion of its claim in 1786, and in 1792, Connecticut gave 500,000 acres of that land to citizens whose homes were burned during the American Revolution.
		In 1795 the Connecticut Land Company bought the remaining land in order to resell it and Cleveland was established in 1796 as the first permanent settlement in the reserve.
		In 1800, Connecticut and the United States agreed to make the Western Reserve part of the Ohio Territory.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/revolut/reserve_3 (94 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		Connecticut patriots burned out of their homes during the British raids on New Haven, Fairfield, and Norwalk in 1779 and on Groton and New London in 1781 were compensated with lands in the Western Reserve.
		Questions of who was going to be lucky enough to purchase the Reserve and make millions and what to do with the money once the state had it dominated Connecticut politics during the mid-1790s.
		George, Milton C. "The Settlement of the Connecticut Western Reserve of Ohio." Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, 1950.
	www.ctheritage.org /biography/colonytostate/westernreserve.htm (777 words)

	Connecticut State Library Research Guide to Connecticut's Western Lands or Western Reserve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Soon, so many Connecticut residents moved to this northeastern section of present-day Ohio that it was soon called "New Connecticut." Today, the area is still reminiscent of New England, especially in its architecture.
		Deed given by John Adams, as President of the United States, to the State of Connecticut, whereby, according to an act of Congress in 1799 session, the United States releases and conveys all right, title, and interest in the land known as the Western reserve of Connecticut, March 2, 1801.
		The series pertaining to Susquehanna Settlers and Western Lands include acts, resolves, petitions, committee reports, deeds, etc., relating to the Susquehannah 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 Connecticut's Western Lands.
	www.cslib.org /westernreserve.htm (1508 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Connecticut Western Reserve and the Origin of Cleveland, Ohio
		The small area known as Connecticut went from being a colony to being a state in the young nation.
		Connecticut gave land in the western part of the Reserve to its citizens who had lost property in the Revolution.
		The most western part of the Firelands was given to Ohio Indians in a treaty.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A4139192 (961 words)

	Who We Are \| Western Reserve United Methodist Church
		The mission of the Western Reserve United Methodist Church is to develop disciples who reflect Christ's love through worship, service and deed.
		The Western Reserve United Methodist Church was created in 1965 by the merger of two former Methodist congregations.
		Today, the Western Reserve United Methodist Church is determined to reach new generations with the Gospel.
	www.westernreserveumc.com /whoweare.htm (249 words)

	Black River Historical Society
		In April 1800, Connecticut traded her supposed civil jurisdiction over the Western Reserve to the United States government for the government's claim to the soil.
		The survey of the Western Reserve was started in 1796 but that part of the Reserve, which lies west of the Cuyahoga, was not surveyed until 1806 as previous to 1805 it was still in the possession of the Indians.
		The Connecticut Western Reserve was called, prior to the sale to the land company, "Connecticut's White Elephant." The Connecticut legislature in 1786 appointed a committee of three to dispose of its far eastern lands.
	www.loraincityhistory.org /lorain_history.html (7379 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		The land was finally awarded to Pennsylvania in 1784, and Connecticut was bought off by the Congress under the Articles of Confederation with a grant of territory just beyond the accepted bounds of Pennsylvania--Connecticut's Western Reserve.
		The fullest and most recent treatment is a University of Connecticut dissertation (1972) by Richard Thomas Warfle, "Connecticut's Critical Period: The Response to the Susquehannah Affair, 1769-1774." For five years, from 1769 to 1774, the Susquehannah Affair was the most important issue in Connecticut politics.
		Deans, J. "The Migration of the Connecticut Yankees to the West Branch of the Susquehannah River." Proceedings of the Northumberland County Historical Society 20 (1954).
	www.ctheritage.org /biography/colonytostate/susquehannahco.htm (921 words)

	Milan Historical Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was July 4, 1779 and the ultimatum went to Connecticut residents along the eastern shore.
		Compensation to the survivors in Connecticut came first in the form of tax abatements followed by the legislation of 1792 that "released and quit-claimed to the Sufferers or their legal representatives or heirs", 500,000 Connecticut-owned acres in Ohio.
		Indians unsympathetic to the Connecticut Sufferers occupied the new land, 700 miles away through uncharted territory.
	www.milanhistory.org /connecticut.html (401 words)

	The Western Reserve
		Beginning in the early 1780s, states with claims to western lands began to cede their rights to the central government.
		In 1792, Connecticut granted 500,000 acres of the Reserve, later known as the “firelands," to state residents who had lost their property to British raids during the War for Independence.
		The Western Reserve was included in the Northwest Territory in 1800, when the first government was introduced to the area.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1163.html (468 words)

	Historical Perspective
		Sale of vast western lands to the Connecticut Land Company by the State of Connecticut in 1795 heralded the settlement of Portage County.
		Those lands were known as the Connecticut Western Reserve, an area comprising 3.8 million acres extending 110 miles west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and 50 miles south from the shore of Lake Erie.
		Following a survey led by Moses Cleveland for whom Cleveland is named, shares of the lands in the Western Reserve were sold to residents of Connecticut and Massachusetts.
	www.portageworkforce.org /portage/historicalperspective.htm (911 words)

	Austinburg Township History
		It could be said that a mad dog sent Judge Eliphalet Austin to the Western Reserve.
		The prominent young man, of New Hartford, Connecticut, one of the original proprietors of Township No. 11, Range Four, was bitten and advised by his physician and friends to travel abroad while awaiting his fate.
		He chose rather to head west to his reserve lands in hopes of keeping his mind off the dread disease of hydrophobia to which he never did fall victim.
	ashtcohs.com /austinburg.html (523 words)

	Hinckley Township, Medina County, Ohio
		At present the term Western Reserve has only an historical meaning; but to the Medina pioneers it had immediate significance, because originally Medina was a part of this unique section of Ohio.
		After the Revolution the other states ceded their western lands to the federal government, but Connecticut was permitted to retain or reserve a section in Ohio approximately equal to what she had lost in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.
		The Connecticut Legislature sold this entire parcel to a group of land speculators for the sum of $1,200,000, with the proceeds of this sale going to the Connecticut school fund.
	www.hinckleytwp.org /information/history2.php (604 words)

	Geneva - Along the Inland Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1662, King Charles II of England granted the colony of Connecticut a chunk of the Ohio wilderness bordered by Lake Erie on the north, and Pennsylvania on the east.
		Connecticut planned to annex the prime lakefront property as “New Connecticut,” but the wild Western Reserve was not easily tamed.
		In 1800, the state of Connecticut finally gave up its ambitions for westward expansion and ceded the Western Reserve to the United States government, moving Ohio further along the road to its own statehood in 1803.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /parks/explore/magazine/sprsum04/inlandsea.htm (1375 words)

	Yale Medicine Spring 2003: Faculty
		Horwitz also heads the new Case Research Institute, a joint project of the Case Western Reserve University and the University Hospitals Health System, and he is overseeing the establishment of a new M.D. program at the School of Medicine to train physician investigators.
		Connecticut pioneers led by David Hudson settled in the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1799.
		Connecticut had claimed the Reserve, a tract in what is now northeastern Ohio, after the Revolution.
	info.med.yale.edu /external/pubs/ym_sp03/faculty.html (1419 words)

	Cemeteries - Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials
		Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery is the second national cemetery built in Ohio and the 119th in the national cemetery system.
		Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery lies approximately 45 miles south of Cleveland in Medina County near the town of Rittman.
		The cemetery’s name refers to the part of the Northwest Territory formerly known as the Connecticut Western Reserve, a tract of land in Northeast Ohio reserved by the State of Connecticut when it ceded its claims for western lands to the U.S. government in 1786.
	www.cem.va.gov /CEM/cems/nchp/ohiowesternreserve.asp (675 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The land was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve grant from King James I of England to the Plymouth Company on November 3, 1630.
		Moses Cleaveland was the agent for the Connecticut Land Company at the time, hence the naming of the principal township in the Western Reserve in his honor.
		In 1798, the land in the township of Brunswick was sold mostly in quarter sections of 160 acres at $1.25 to $3 per acre.
	www.brunswick.oh.us /Sites/History/1700.htm (336 words)

	First maps about Cleveland and the Western Reserve
		In 1786, Connecticut relinquished all claim to western lands to the fledgling U.S. federal government, except for a 120-mile strip along the south shore of Lake Erie, which was being "reserved"as compensation for land lost to Pennsylvania in the Wyoming valley of the Susquehanna River.
		A group of investors purchased the Western Reserve, incorporated themselves as the Connecticut Land Company, and set about preparing to survey the lands and lay out the village that became Cleveland.
		The western sheet shows these lands unsurveyed, as the lands west of the Cuyahoga were not open for settlement in 1796, and the eastern sheet shows the lands surveyed into the five-mile-square townships.
	www.csuohio.edu /CUT/firsts.htm (1019 words)

	City of Hudson : History
		The colony of Connecticut had, from 1632, laid claim to a 120-mile stretch of Ohio territory, which came to be known as the Connecticut Western Reserve.
		In 1799, David Hudson, a shareholder in the Reserve, led a party of surveyors through the wilderness of the Eastern forests to the Reserve itself.
		Named Western Reserve College, it was one of the only institutions of higher learning in the region, complete with the Loomis Observatory, the only observatory west of the Alleghenies at that time.
	www.hudson.oh.us /profile/history.asp (1311 words)

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