http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f86-subject%3DUnited%20States%20--%20Description%20and%20travel%20--%201783-1848. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f86-subject=United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0212.xml The collection consists of a journal kept by an unidentified itinerant preacher who traveled from Princeton, New Jersey, through New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. In Ohio he preached at Sandusky, Norwalk, Elyria, Cleveland, Painesville, Madison, and several villages in Ashtabula County. Includes brief comments on the places he visited, the people he met, and his unusual experiences. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0212.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3172.xml John Evelyn Denison Ossington was the speaker of England's House of Commons (1857-1872). He was created Viscount Ossington upon his retirement. The collection consists of typescript copies of diaries and of several letters (addressed to his mother) written while Denison was on a tour of Canada and the United States. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3172.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3299.xml William G. Torrance was a teacher in the Long Run Settlement (probably in Pennsylvania). The collection consists of family letters, a journal kept on a trip from Greensborough, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Lisbon, Ohio (1831), and an account book. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3299.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3339.xml The Goodwin and Millard families were early settlers of Huntsburg, Geauga County, Ohio. The collection consists of letters, memoranda, recipes, poetry and teaching certificates of the Goodwin and Millard families of Huntsburg, Ohio. Included is a journal of Emery Goodwin's journey from Connecticut to Ohio in 1818. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3339.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0100.xml George K. Jenkins was a Quaker teacher in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, during the nineteenth century. The collection includes minutes, lists of certificates, members and marriages, and other records of various meetings of the Society of Friends in Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia; records of Quaker schools and organizations, including the Ohio Yearly Meeting and its Committee on Indian Affairs, the New Garden Monthly Meeting, the Short Creek Meeting, and the Free Produce Association. Includes a journal of Jenkins' observations of Quaker colonies he visited in Canada, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia; an account of the immigration of William Harrison from York County, Virginia, to Mount Pleasant, Ohio (1817); and a memoranda book (1849-60) kept by David Updegraff on visits to Yearly Meetings in Indiana, Maryland and Pennsylvania. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0100.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0116.xml Samuel Bissell (1797-1895) was a congregational minister and educator in Twinsburg, Ohio. The collection consists of a diary (1819) of a visit to New Haven, Connecticut; album of autographs (1823) of classmates of Bissell at Yale University; account books; daybooks (1825-1875) relating to the Twinsburg Institute; correspondence (1825-1895) with the Office of Indian Affairs, and other papers concerning efforts of Bissell on behalf of Indian youths; sermons; mortgage deeds, financial papers, and ledgers. Includes letters and receipts of parents of Bissell, Robert and Thankful Bissell, of Aurora, Ohio, and correspondence with the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Samuel Bissell Memorial Library Association of Twinsburg, Ohio. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0116.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0813.xml John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was a Moravian missionary who worked to Christianize Indians in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Heckewelder, David Zeisberger, and Christian Delaware Indians migrated from Pennsylvania to the Ohio territory and laid out Schoenbrunn ("Beautiful Spring") in 1772 along the Tuscarawas River. They also founded Gnadenhutten ("Tents of Grace") further downstream, where nearly 100 Christian Indians were murdered by whites in 1782. The collection consists of a diary kept while journeying with Sarah and Anna Heckewelder from the "Cayahoga river" to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 5-Nov.ember 15, 1786; diary kept while journeying with Abraham Steiner from Bethlehem to Pettiquotting near the Huron River and Lake Erie, and back to Bethlehem, April 17-June 20, 1789; and a church history of the Moravians, undated. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0813.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0870.xml William Eldredge was a merchant of New London, Connecticut, and land owner in Huron County, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence and travel journals, together with deeds, lists of proprietors, and lists of land for sale in the towns of Eldredge and Huron, Huron County, Ohio. Correspondents include John Walworth of Cleveland, Ohio. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0870.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1186.xml The collection consists of a detailed account of a trip made by Henry Newberry from Windsor, Connecticut, to the Western Reserve. Includes a list of lands laid out to various persons in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1733. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1186.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3174.xml The collection consists of a manuscript journal of a trip by wagon from New Haven, Connecticut, to Warren, Ohio, by Margaret Van Horn Dwight Bell (1790-1834). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3174.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0400.xml Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) was a land agent for the Ohio Company of Associates. The collection consists of handwritten copies of journals describing Cutler's trips to New York and Philadelphia (1787) to negotiate a contract with Congress for the purchase of lands for the Ohio Company, and to the future site of Marietta, Ohio (1788) to visit the Ohio Company purchase there. Included in the second volume is a journal of Reverend Joseph Badger (1803-1807). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0400.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3234.xml Seth Pease (1764-1819) was a Connecticut surveyor who became a United States Surveyor General in Mississippi and Orleans territory and Assistant Postmaster General. The collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, accounts, memorandums, agreements, journals, journal transcripts, field notes, financial papers and maps. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3234.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0597.xml Jonathan Law was a resident of Cheshire, Connecticut, and the son of William Law, an early owner of land in the Western Reserve. The collection consists of a diary kept on a trip through the Western Reserve, including visits to Burton, Cleveland, Chillicothe, Painesville, Poland, and Warren, Ohio, and other cities between the Reserve and his home in Cheshire, Connecticut. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0597.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3893.xml David Hudson, Sr. (1761-1836) was the founder of Hudson, Ohio and a member of the party which came from Litchfield, Connecticut to survey and organize Hudson in 1799. He returned in 1800 with a colonizing party which included his family. David Jr. and Anner Mary were two of his children. The collection consists of David Hudson, Sr.'s journal and account book (1799-1801), which describes the surveying party's trip from Connecticut to Hudson, Ohio and Hudson's return trip; ten of David Hudson, Jr.'s journals (1820-1836) describing farm life in early Hudson, Ohio; and Anner Mary Hudson Baldwin's recipe book (1830). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3893.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0001.xml The Connecticut Western Reserve was the area of northeast Ohio that Connecticut had reserved for her citizens in 1786 in exchange for ceding all western land claims to the U.S. government. The area comprised all land south of Lake Erie to 41' latitude and within 120 miles of Pennsylvania's western border. The Connecticut Land Company (1795-1809) was authorized by Connecticut to purchase and resell most of the Western Reserve, and received title to all Reserve land except for the 500,000-acre Firelands on the extreme west which was reserved for Connecticut victims whose lands were burned by the British in the Revolution. Gen. Moses Cleaveland, a company director and its general agent, led the first company survey party to the Reserve in 1796 and founded the settlement of Cleveland at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. The collection consists of records of the Connecticut Land Company, including articles of association, proceedings, reports, minutes, accounts, records of drafts, and other papers, 1795-1827; la... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0001.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2805.xml The collection includes records of the Coffinberry and Morgan families and allied families of Hampson, Duane, DuBarry, and Chevalier. Members of these families were at the forefront of events in American, Ohio and Cleveland history, from before the Revolutionary War until the Reconstruction period and beyond. The collection consists of correspondence, journals, other manuscript materials, plats, maps, pamphlets, political broadsides, speeches, newspaper clippings, biographical and genealogical items, engravings, campaign ribbons, and other family memorabilia. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2805.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT