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1	Title:	Ephraim Root Papers
	Creator:	Root, Ephraim
	Dates:	1769-1837
	Abstract:	Ephraim Root (1762-1825) was a Connecticut lawyer and state congressman who was also clerk of the Connecticut Land Company. The collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, legal documents and memorandums of Ephraim Root; and accounts, a tax list, minutes, memorandums, draft slips and a draft book of the Connecticut Land Company.
	Call #:	MS 3235
	Extent:	1.20 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Root, Ephraim, 1762-1825. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Land companies -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Real property -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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2	Title:	Amzi Atwater Journal
	Creator:	Atwater, Amzi
	Dates:	1796
	Abstract:	Amzi Atwater (1776-1850) was an assistant surveyor in Moses Cleveland's Western Reserve surveying party. The collection consists of a journal containing a description of the Western Reserve in 1796 as recorded by Atwater.
	Call #:	MS 0735
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Diaries. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel.
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3	Title:	Daniel Lathrop Coit Papers
	Creator:	Coit, Daniel Lathrop
	Dates:	1815-1819
	Abstract:	Daniel Lathrop Coit (1754-1833) was a resident of Norwich, Connecticut, and original shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company that developed the Western Reserve and Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of land agreements and associated papers concerning sales by Coit to residents of Medina and Portage Counties, Ohio.
	Call #:	MS 1314
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Coit, Daniel Lathrop, 1754-1833. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Medina County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Portage County. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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4	Title:	Amzi Atwater Field Notes
	Creator:	Atwater, Amzi
	Dates:	1797
	Abstract:	Amzi Atwater (1776-1850) was an assistant surveyor in Moses Cleaveland's Western Reserve surveying party of the Connecticut Land Company. The collection consists of field notes for surveys of land in eastern Cuyahoga County, near Lake Erie (townships 6 and 7, range 11).
	Call #:	MS 1693
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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5	Title:	Margaret Van Horn Dwight Bell Journal
	Creator:	Bell, Margaret Van Horn Dwight
	Dates:	1810
	Abstract:	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).
	Call #:	MS 3174
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Bell, Margaret Van Horn Dwight, 1790-1834. \| Women pioneers -- United States -- Correspondence. \| Ohio -- Descripton and travel. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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6	Title:	Samuel Mather Record Book
	Creator:	Mather, Samuel
	Dates:	1825-1840
	Abstract:	Samuel Mather, Jr. (b. 1745) was a descendant of Cotton and Increase Mather. He owned land in York and Lafayette townships, Medina County, and in Sheffield, Ashtabula County. His heirs included his sons, Thomas, Samuel and James Mather, and his daughters, Anna Lord, Mehitable and Margaret Sill, Fanny Chapman and Lydia Hubbard. The collection consists of a bound volume detailing the distribution of Mather's estate, entitled "Division of lands in the Western Reserve state of Ohio belonging to Samuel Mather Junior Esq. deceased among his heirs."
	Call #:	MS 3262
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Mather, Samuel, b. 1745. \| Mather family. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Medina County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Ashtabula County. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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7	Title:	Western Reserve Printed Ephemera Collection
	Creator:	Western Reserve Historical Society
	Dates:	1834-1995
	Abstract:	The Western Reserve Printed Ephemera Collection is a collection of pamphlets drawn from previously processed collections held by Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The pamphlets were generally removed from their original collections due to lack of relevance to the collection, but retained and grouped together in a separate collection because of their historic value.
	Call #:	MS 5147
	Extent:	15.40 linear feet (16 containers)
	Subjects:	Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Miscellanea. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Periodicals. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Miscellanea. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Periodicals. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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8	Title:	Lucius Verus Bierce Papers
	Creator:	Bierce, Lucius Verus
	Dates:	1838-1876
	Abstract:	Lucius Verus Bierce (1801-1876) was a lawyer of Ravenna, Ohio. He delivered many speeches on the history of the Firelands, Mound Builders, and early preachers in the Western Reserve such as Elijah Ellsworth, Timothy Bigelow, and Ammi R. Robbins (1740-1813). The collection consists of speeches, correspondence and notes.
	Call #:	MS 1081
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Bierce, Lucius Verus, 1801-1876. \| Bigelow, Timothy. \| Ellsworth, Elijah. \| Robbins, Ammi Ruhamah, 1740-1813. \| Clergy -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Biography. \| Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Antiquities. \| Mound-builders -- Ohio. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Ohio -- History.
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9	Title:	Seth Pease Papers
	Creator:	Pease, Seth
	Dates:	1792-1807
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3234
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Pease, Seth, 1764-1819. \| Surveyors -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. \| Real property -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Connecticut -- Surveys. \| Penobscut (Maine) -- Surveys. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| New York (State) -- Surveys. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. \| United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Sources.
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10	Title:	Oliver Phelps Family Papers
	Creator:	Phelps, Oliver Family
	Dates:	1789-1879
	Abstract:	The Oliver Phelps family held real estate in Connecticut, New York, Ohio and Michigan. The collection consists of correspondence, accounts, surveys and legal documents relating to the Phelps family's real estate interests.
	Call #:	MS 3236
	Extent:	2.00 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Phelps family. \| Phelps, Oliver, 1749-1809. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Real estate -- Connecticut. \| Real estate -- New York. \| Real estate -- Ohio. \| Real estate -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Real estate -- Michigan. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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11	Title:	Calvin Pease Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Calvin Pease
	Dates:	1817-1837
	Abstract:	Calvin Pease was a lawyer, legislator and judge, of Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Pease came to the Western Reserve from Connecticut in 1800. He was admitted to the bar and was appointed the first clerk of the court of quarter sessions, a position he held until 1803. He served as judge of the Third Circuit, Court of Common Pleas (1803-1810), and justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1816-30). Pease also served as a tax collector, primarily in Trumbull County, from 1801-1819. He served in the Ohio state legislature from Trumbull County, and also was the official agent for the U.S. postmaster-general in northeastern Ohio. He was a delegate to the canal convention meeting in Warren in 1833. Pease continued the private practice of law until his death at Warren in 1839. The collection consists of bank checks signed by Pease on the Western Reserve Bank from 1817-1837; on the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie in 1833; and promissory notes to the Western Reserve Bank, 1825-1830.
	Call #:	MS 4687
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Pease, Calvin, 1776-1839. \| Commercial Bank of Lake Erie (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Western Reserve Bank of Warren, Ohio. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Warren. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Judges -- Ohio. \| Lawyers -- Ohio. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Trumbull County (Ohio) -- History.
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12	Title:	Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve Records, Series II
	Creator:	Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve
	Dates:	1838-2009
	Abstract:	The Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve is a Cleveland, Ohio, social organization for descendants of early settlers of the Western Reserve. Established in 1879 as the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, the organization has supported a variety of historical and civic projects. The collection consists of addresses, advertisements, agendas, agreements, annual reports, applications, articles of incorporation, bibliographies, board of trustees minutes, book manuscripts, brochures, by-laws, certificates, constitutions, correspondence, diary entries, dues payments, family trees, financial records, flyers, forms, genealogies, handbooks, indexes, inventories, invitations, itineraries, journal articles, journals, lectures, lists, magazine articles, magazine clippings, maps, meeting announcements, membership cards, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, pamphlets, photographs, post cards, press releases, proclamations, programs, publications, records of proceedings, reports, research, resolutions, rosters, scrapbooks, song lyrics, speeches, and surveys.
	Call #:	MS 5181
	Extent:	21.00 linear feet (22 containers and 5 volumes)
	Subjects:	Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Societies, etc. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History \| Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve -- Periodicals. \| Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve. \| Patriotic societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Societies, etc. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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13	Title:	John Breck Family Papers, Joint Manuscript and Microfilm Edition
	Creator:	Breck, John Family
	Dates:	1782-1993
	Abstract:	The John Breck family, natives of Massachusetts, purchased land in the Western Reserve from the Connecticut Land Company. By 1803, John Breck was sole owner of the family's land in what is now Brecksville, Ohio. He married Clarissa Allen and they had six children. Seth Paine and Alfred Wolcott surveyed the Breck family land in 1811. Paine and his family became Brecksville's first settlers. The first family member to live in Brecksville was John Breck's nephew, the Reverend Joseph Hunt Breck, who later settled in Newburgh, Ohio. John Breck's sons John Adams, Theodore, and Edward, came to Brecksville in 1830. Theodore Breck was a merchant in Brecksville, served as a Cuyahoga County commissioner, and represented the Brecksville area in the Ohio state legislature. Edward M. Breck setled in Huntsburg, Geauga County, Ohio, and in later years returned to Brecksville. His son, Edward King Breck, married Mary Louisa Oakes of Brecksville, and they had two children. Their son, Theodore Breck attended Oberlin College and Amherst College and received a medical degree from Wooster College. He served in World War I, was on the staff of Glenville Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, was a member of the Early Settlers Club, and president of the Brecksville Centennial in 1911. The collection consists of Consists of letters, diaries, poems, writings, newspaper clippings, obituaries, historical notes, receipts, accounts, contracts, deeds, land surveys, wills, powers of attorney, legal documents, certificates, and photographs.
	Call #:	MS 4675
	Extent:	0.90 linear feet (2 containers, 1 oversize folder, and 2 rolls of microfilm)
	Subjects:	Breck, John, 1770-1827. \| Breck family. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Brecksville. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Brecksville. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Brecksville. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Brecksville. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Brecksville. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Brecksville (Ohio) -- History. \| Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Brecksville (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
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14	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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15	Title:	Leonard Case, Sr. Family Papers
	Creator:	Case, Leonard Sr.
	Dates:	1795-1917
	Abstract:	Leonard Case, Sr. (1786-1864) was a land agent, bank and railroad executive, and politician in Cleveland, Ohio. His sons, Leonard Jr., a noted philanthropist, and William, a politician, were active in local civic and business affairs. His brother Zophar was a lawyer and politician in Clinton County, Illinois. His nephew Eckstein was a lawyer and Secretary-Treasurer of the Case School of Applied Science. The collection consists of maps, plats, surveys, and deeds to land in Cuyahoga County and Cleveland, three account books of the Connecticut School Fund, memoirs of Leonard Case Sr., ca. 200 federal land grants to U.S. veterans (1848-1857), histories of the Western Reserve and Trumbull County, reminiscences of Benjamin Lane, a diary and correspondence of William Case, a field book of Zophar Case, and letters from Cleveland businessmen to Eckstein Case.
	Call #:	MS 2871
	Extent:	3.10 linear feet (5 containers and 2 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Case family. \| Eckstein family. \| Case, Leonard, 1786-1864. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Land titles -- Michigan. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property -- Michigan. \| Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865. \| Ohio -- Maps. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Maps. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Maps. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Clinton County (Ill.) -- Surveys.
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16	Title:	Western Reserve Manuscripts (Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Vertical File)
	Creator:	Various
	Dates:	1636-1991
	Abstract:	The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing project that will be updated for public access as the project progresses in real time.
	Call #:	MS 5362
	Extent:	27.80 linear feet (29 containers)
	Subjects:	Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. \| Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- 19th century. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. \| Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. \| Antislavery movements -- Ohio.
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