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Subject | • | Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. | [X] | | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | [X] | | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Warren. |
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| | • | Building leases -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Carter, Lorenzo, 1767-1814. |
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| | • | Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad Company. |
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| | • | Clarke, James S. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Park Commissioners. |
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| | • | Cleveland Female Seminary. |
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| | • | Commercial buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Connecticut Land Company. |
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| | • | Deeds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Education, Secondary -- Connecticut -- Middletown -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Fitch family. |
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| | • | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Hill Clutch Company. |
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| | • | Installment land contracts -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Northwest, Old -- History. |
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| | • | Ohio -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Perkins family. |
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| | • | Perkins, Charles, -- Diaries. |
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| | • | Perkins, Douglas, 1855-1921 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Perkins, Jacob B. (Jacob Bishop), 1854-1936 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Perkins, Jacob, 1821-1859 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Perkins, Joseph, 1819-1885 -- Archives. |
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| | • | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Real estate investment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Real property tax -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Tappan, Abraham, 1779-1855. |
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| | • | Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857. |
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| | • | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. |
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| | • | Walker Manufacturing Company. |
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| | • | Walworth, John, 1765-1812. |
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| | • | Warren (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | Wolcott, Alfred. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Alfred Wolcott Field Notes and Surveys
| | | | Creator: | Wolcott, Alfred | | | | Dates: | 1799-1817 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of notes, surveys, and maps of land in Ashtabula, Batavia, Braceville, Brecksville, Chardon, Coitsville, Concord, Ellsworth, Fowler, Guilford, Howland, Leffingwell, Liberty, Liverpool, Monroe, Newbury, Newton, Parkman, Ravenna, Richfield, Southington, and York, Ohio. Most of these surveys of land located in the Western Reserve were made by Wolcott for General Simon Perkins. | | | | Call #: | MS 0725 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. | Wolcott, Alfred. | Ohio -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Perkins Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Perkins Family | | | | Dates: | 1823-1937 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph and Jacob Perkins were sons of Simon Perkins, general land agent in the Western Reserve. They came from Warren, Ohio, to Cleveland in the 1850s to engage in banking, railroad building, real estate and various businesses. Together they organized and operated the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad. Joseph was president of the Bank of Commerce (1852-1872), a leading benefactor of Cleveland charities, the first president of Cleveland City Hospital, and a trustee for Western Reserve College (1846-1885). Jacob, also a businessman and president of the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad, was a prominent Ohio politician as well, serving as a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1850. His son, Jacob Bishop Perkins, was a large real estate owner and builder in Cleveland. Joseph Perkins' papers include business correspondence, building construction contracts, land, tenement, and office leases, financial statements and business records, maps and surveys, cancelled land contracts and cancelled checks. Jacob Perkins' papers include voluminous correspondence, and accounts and receipts of business affairs. Jacob Bishop Perkins' papers include correspondence, legal papers, contracts, deeds, leases, maps, and surveys, all pertaining primarily to his affairs as a real estate owner and builder in Cleveland. Other family papers include school books, letter books, estate papers, genealogical information, a scrapbook on the early settlement of the Western Reserve, business papers of Joseph's son Douglas and a Civil War diary by another son Charles. Also included are photographs, diaries, trip journals, correspondence from Simon and Nancy Perkins, financial journals, ledgers and account books of Stephen E. Brooks, as well as material relating to the Cleveland, Warren & Pittsburgh Railroad, the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad, the Cleveland Female Seminary, the Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners, the Hill Clutch Company and the Walker Manufacturing Company. | | | | Call #: | MS 3107 | | | | Extent: | 22.00 linear feet (46 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Perkins family. | Perkins, Joseph, 1819-1885 -- Archives. | Perkins, Jacob, 1821-1859 -- Archives. | Perkins, Jacob B. (Jacob Bishop), 1854-1936 -- Archives. | Perkins, Douglas, 1855-1921 -- Archives. | Perkins, Charles, -- Diaries. | Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. | Fitch family. | Cleveland Female Seminary. | Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad Company. | Hill Clutch Company. | Walker Manufacturing Company. | Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Park Commissioners. | Real property -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property tax -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Deeds -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real estate investment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Installment land contracts -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Building leases -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Commercial buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education, Secondary -- Connecticut -- Middletown -- History -- Sources. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Warren. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Warren (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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