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1	Title:	Lucia Van Tassel Notebooks
	Creator:	Van Tassel, Lucia
	Dates:	19th century
	Abstract:	Lucia Van Tassel was the wife of Rev. Isaac Van Tassel. The collection consists of Indian (possibly Ottawa) vocabulary and English translation prepared by Lucia Van Tassel, with the help of Lewis King, interpreter. The volumes were left unfinished because of her illness and the removal of the Indians.
	Call #:	MS 0211
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Van Tassel, Lucia. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Women -- Ohio. \| Indians of North America -- Ohio. \| Indians of North America -- Languages.
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2	Title:	Zenas Ball Family Papers
	Creator:	Ball, Zenas Family
	Dates:	1803-1978
	Abstract:	Zenas Ball moved from New Jersey to a farm in Knox County, Ohio, in 1819. His son Aaron was the father of Webb C. and F. Grant Ball. Webb C. was the owner of the Webb. C. Ball Co. and the Ball Time Inspection Service. F. Grant was a jeweler, violin maker and family historian of the Ball International Union. The collection consists of genealogical material, correspondence, wills, newspaper clippings and certificates, biographies and obituaries of Webb C. Ball, Morris Township school registers and a road tax list, and papers of the Ball International Union, the Webb C. Ball Co., and the Ball Time Inspection Service.
	Call #:	MS 3306
	Extent:	1.60 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Ball family. \| Clay family. \| Taylor family. \| Ball, Zenas, 1792-1860. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio.
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3	Title:	Goodwin and Millard Families Papers
	Creator:	Goodwin and Millard Families
	Dates:	1818-1888
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3339
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Goodwin family. \| Millard family. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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4	Title:	Hannah Huntington Letters
	Creator:	Huntington, Hannah
	Dates:	1791-1811
	Abstract:	Hannah Huntington (1770-1818) was the wife of Samuel Huntington (1765-1817), jurist, legislator, and governor of Ohio. The collection consists of personal letters, primarily concerning family matters, from Mrs. Huntington to her husband.
	Call #:	MS 0884
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Huntington, Hannah, 1770-1818. \| Huntington family. \| Huntington, Samuel, 1765-1817. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Governors -- Ohio. \| Governors' spouses -- Ohio. \| Ohio -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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5	Title:	Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton Means Childhood Recollections
	Creator:	Means, Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton
	Dates:	1889
	Abstract:	Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton Means (1824-1894) was the daughter of Asaph and Vesta Hart Whittlesey, sister of Charles Whittlesey, and niece of Elisha and John Whittlesey. After her mother's death she was adopted by her uncle John and moved to Salisbury, Conn. In 1844 she married Dr. Lucius C. Walton and returned to her birthplace, Tallmadge, Ohio. Dr. Walton died in 1879 and Mary married Captain John A. Means in 1880. The collection consist of one bound volume of memoirs written in 1889, at the request of her grandchildren, when the author was 65 years old. The document consists of 110 handwritten pages describing Mrs. Means' memories of personal and family affairs and events in Tallmadge, Ohio and Salisbury, Connecticut, ca. 1828 to 1879. The first one hundred pages focus on her childhood to age twenty. Three recipes have been taped on the pages following the narrative.
	Call #:	MS 3932
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Means, Mary Vesta Whittlesey Walton, 1824-1894. \| Whittlesey family. \| Autobiography -- Women authors. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Women -- Ohio -- Biography. \| Tallmadge (Ohio) -- Social life and customs. \| Salisbury (Conn.) -- Social life and customs.
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6	Title:	Day Family Papers
	Creator:	Day Family
	Dates:	1825-1890
	Abstract:	Norman Day was a farmer in Lorain County, Ohio, where his father, Captain John Day, settled in 1815. His wife, Julia Ann Root, was the daughter of Henry and Mary Root, early settlers in Sheffield Township, Lorain County. Norman's son, Richard Day, served as county auditor in 1861. The collection consists of correspondence, an account book, receipts, and memorabilia, including a history of Sheffield Township, Ohio. The collection pertains primarily to family relationships in the early Western Reserve, particularly in Sheffield Township, and land purchases in the Midwestern frontier.
	Call #:	MS 4346
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Day family. \| Family -- Ohio -- Lorain County -- History -- 19th century. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Lorain County. \| Lorain County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Sheffield (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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7	Title:	Ephraim Brown Family Papers
	Creator:	Brown, Ephraim Family
	Dates:	1771-1968
	Abstract:	Ephraim Brown (1775-1845) was a land agent and legislator of North Bloomfield, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, land agreements, deeds, account books, business papers, financial receipts, certificates, and court-docket books relating to Brown's activities in the Ohio legislature (1820s-30s), as road commissioner of Ohio, and in business ventures. Includes account books of E. A. Brown & Brothers Company and other papers of Brown's son, Ephraim A. Brown; papers of other family members, and plans and charts of North Bloomfield, Ohio.
	Call #:	MS 1872
	Extent:	10.60 linear feet (8 containers and 24 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Brown, Ephraim, 1775-1845. \| Brown family. \| Brown, Alexander Cushing, 1885-1964. \| Brown, Ephraim Alexander, 1807-1894. \| Brown, Mary Huntington. \| Brown, Anne F. \| Court calendars -- Ohio -- Trumbull County. \| Railroads -- Ohio -- Management. \| Roads -- Ohio -- Management. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Bloomfield (Trumbull County, Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865.
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8	Title:	Peter Hitchcock Family Papers
	Creator:	Hitchcock, Peter Family
	Dates:	1788-1898
	Abstract:	Peter Hitchcock, Sr. (1781-1853) was an early settler of Burton, Ohio, who became an Ohio and United States legislator and Chief Justice of Ohio. His sons, Reuben, Henry, and Peter Jr., entered the judiciary, ministry and politics respectively and were affiliated with Burton Academy, Western Reserve College and the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. the collection consists of correspondence of family members and miscellaneous papers relating to Western Reserve College, Burton Academy, the Atlantic and Great Western Railway and the early history of Burton, Ohio.
	Call #:	MS 3325
	Extent:	19.80 linear feet (49 containers and 2 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Hitchcock, Peter, 1781-1853. \| Hitchcock family. \| Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. \| Judges -- Ohio -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. \| Legislators -- Ohio -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Railroads -- United States. \| Public Square (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Law -- Ohio. \| Burton (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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9	Title:	Hudson Family Papers
	Creator:	Hudson Family
	Dates:	1799-1836
	Abstract:	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).
	Call #:	MS 3893
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Hudson family. \| Hudson, David, 1761-1836. \| Baldwin, Anner Mary Hudson, 1800-1892. \| Farm life -- Ohio -- Hudson. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. \| Farmers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. \| Cookery, American. \| Hudson (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Hudson (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Ohio -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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10	Title:	Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Connecticut Western Reserve
	Creator:	Western Reserve Historical Society
	Dates:	1764-1874
	Abstract:	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; land surveys, field notes, and plats of early Western Reserve surveyors, 1796-1815; journals and diaries of early residents, 1765-1807; correspondence; newspaper clippings; statements in response to John Barr and others soliciting information on the early history of Cleveland and the Western Reserve; writings of Charles Whittlesey on topics such as the 1797 surveying party, local town histories, history of the Northwest Territory; biographical sketches of early settlers, including Lorenzo Carter, Simon Perkins, Abraham and Benjamin Tappan, and John Walworth; and miscellaneous papers relating to the early history of Cleveland and the Western Reserve, including John Heckewelder's description of northeast Ohio, 1796. Many of the documents in the collection are transcripts of items collected by John Barr and Charles Whittlesey 1840-1860. Also included in the register are two appendices. Appendix I is an alphabetical list by township of land surveys and plats contained in the collection. Appendix II is a conversion chart listing old and new citations to containers and folder numbers within the collection.
	Call #:	MS 0001
	Extent:	2.60 linear feet (7 containers)
	Subjects:	Carter, Lorenzo, 1767-1814. \| Clarke, James S. \| Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. \| Tappan, Abraham, 1779-1855. \| Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857. \| Walworth, John, 1765-1812. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Northwest, Old -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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