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The Connecticut Land Company was formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the Connecticut Western Reserve, part of the Old Northwest Territory. The Western Reserve is located in Northeast Ohio with its hub being Cleveland. In 1795, the Connecticut Land Company bought three million acres (12,000 km²) of the Western Reserve. Settlers used the guidelines of the Land Ordinance of 1785, which demanded the owners survey the land before settlement.[1] In 1796, the company began surveys and sales on property east of Cuyahoga.[2]
The original proprieters, 57 of the wealthiest and most prominent men in Connecticut, included Oliver Phelps, the largest subscriber and chief manager of the project. In 1796, one of the largest shareholders, Moses Cleaveland, planned a settlement on the banks of the Cuyahoga River with Seth Pease. This planned settlement would become the city of Cleveland.[1]
The Deeds for the land were executed as follows: [3]
| No of Deeds | Names of Grantees | Integral parts of lands conveyed, divided into 1,200,000 shares |
|---|---|---|
| No 1 | Robert Charles Johnson | $60,000 |
| No 2&3 | Moses Cleaveland | $32,600 |
| No 4 | William Judd | $16,250 |
| No 5 | James Johnson | $30,000 |
| No 6 | William Law | $10,500 |
| No 7 | Daniel Holbrook | $8,750 |
| No 8 | Pierpont Edwards | $60,000 |
| No 9 | James Bull, Aaron Olmsted, John Wiles | $30,000 |
| No 10 | Elisha Hyde, Uriah Tracy | $57,400 |
| No 11 | Luther Loomis, Ebenezer King | $44,318 |
| No 12 | Roger Newberry, Enoch Perkins, Jonathan Brace | $38,000 |
| No 13 | Ephraim Root | $42,000 |
| No 14 | Ephraim Kirby, Uriel Holmes Jr, Elijah Boardman | $60,000 |
| No 15 | Oliver Phelps, Gideon Granger Jr | $80,000 |
| No 16 | Oliver Phelps | $168,185 |
| No 17 | John Caldwell, Peleg Sanford | $15,000 |
| No 18 | Soloman Cowles | $10,000 |
| No 19 | Soloman Griswold | $10,000 |
| No 20 | Henry Champion 2d | $85,675 |
| No 21 | Samuel P Lord | $14,092 |
| No 22 | Jazeb Stocking, Joshua Stow | $11,423 |
| No 23 | Timothy Burr | $15,231 |
| No 24 | Caleb Atwater | $22,846 |
| No 25 | Titus Street | $22,846 |
| No 26 | Elias Morgan, Daniel Lathrop Coit | $51,402 |
| No 27 | Joseph Howland, Daniel Lathrop Coit | $30,461 |
| No 28 | Asher Miller | $34,000 |
| No 29 | Ephraim Starr | $17,415 |
| No 30 | Joseph Williams | $15,231 |
| No 31 | William Lyman, John Stoddard, David King | $24,730 |
| No 32 | Nehemiah Hubbard Jr | $19,039 |
| No 33 | Asahel Hathaway | $12,000 |
| No 34 | William Hart | $30,462 |
| No 35 | Samuel Mather Jr | $18,461 |
| No 36 | Sylvanus Griswold | $1,683 |
References [link]
- ^ a b DeRogatis, Amy (2003). Moral geography. Columbia University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-231-12789-9.
- ^ Meinig, Donald W (1986). The Shaping of America. Yale University Press. pp. 356. ISBN 978-0-300-03882-8.
- ^ Shepard, Claude L (1916). The Connecticut land company and accompanying papers. Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve Historical Society. pp. 135–136. ISBN 1-153-33782-7. https://www.archive.org/stream/connecticutlandc00west#page/134/mode/2up/search/olmsted. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
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Connecticut (
i/kəˈnɛtᵻkət/ kə-NET-i-kət) is the southernmost state in the region of the United States known as New England. Connecticut is also often grouped along with New York and New Jersey as the Tri-State area. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital city is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. The state is named after the Connecticut River, a major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of an Algonquian word for "long tidal river."
Connecticut is the third smallest state by area, the 29th most populous, and the fourth most densely populated of the 50 United States. It is known as the "Constitution State", the "Nutmeg State", the "Provisions State", and the "Land of Steady Habits". It was influential in the development of the federal government of the United States. Much of southern and western Connecticut (along with the majority of the state's population) is part of the New York metropolitan area: three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, which is widely referred to as the Tri-State area. Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, which is also located within the Tri-State area.
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The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States. Flowing roughly southward for 406.12 miles (653.59 km) through four U.S. states, the Connecticut rises at the U.S. border with Quebec, Canada, and discharges at Long Island Sound. Its watershed encompasses five U.S. states and one Canadian province – 11,260 square miles (29,200 km2) – via 148 tributaries, 38 of which are major rivers. Discharging at 19,600 cubic feet (560 m3) per second, the Connecticut produces 70% of Long Island Sound's freshwater.
The Connecticut River Valley is home to some of the northeastern United States' most productive farmland, as well as a metropolitan region of approximately 2 million people surrounding Springfield, Massachusetts, and the state of Connecticut's capital, Hartford.
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