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1	Title:	Journal
	Creator:	Journal
	Dates:	1824-1827
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 0212
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Diaries. \| Clergy -- United States -- Diaries. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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2	Title:	John Evelyn Denison Ossington Diaries
	Creator:	Ossington, John Evelyn Denison
	Dates:	1824-1825
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3172
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Ossington, John Evelyn Denison, Viscount, 1800-1872. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1817-1825. \| United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865. \| Canada -- Description and travel -- 1763-1867.
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3	Title:	William G. Torrance Papers
	Creator:	Torrance, William G.
	Dates:	1821-1951
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3299
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Torrance, William G. \| Torrance family. \| Teachers -- Pennsylvania -- Miscellanea. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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4	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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5	Title:	George K. Jenkins Papers
	Creator:	Jenkins, George K.
	Dates:	1788-1887
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 0100
	Extent:	1.80 linear feet (4 containers and 2 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Church schools -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant. \| Quakers -- Canada. \| Quakers -- United States. \| Quakers -- Ohio. \| Quakers -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant -- Education. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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6	Title:	Samuel Bissell Papers
	Creator:	Bissell, Samuel
	Dates:	1797-1933
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 0116
	Extent:	1.80 linear feet (4 containers and 3 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Bissell, Samuel, 1797-1895. \| Yale College -- Students. \| College students -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- Autographs. \| Sermons, American. \| Indian youth -- North America. \| New Haven (Conn.) -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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7	Title:	John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder Diaries
	Creator:	Heckewelder, John gottlieb Ernestus
	Dates:	1786-1789
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 0813
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823. \| Moravians -- Ohio. \| Missionaries -- United States -- Diaries. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Moravian Church -- United States -- History. \| Ohio -- Description and travel. \| Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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8	Title:	William Eldredge Papers
	Creator:	Eldredge, William
	Dates:	1798-1832
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 0870
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Eldredge, William. \| Walworth, John, 1765-1812. \| Merchants -- Connecticut -- Correspondence. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Huron County. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Huron County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Huron County. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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9	Title:	Henry Newberry Notebooks
	Creator:	Newberry, Henry
	Dates:	1733-1822
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 1186
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Newberry, Henry. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. \| Connecticut -- Description and travel. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Ohio -- Description and travel. \| Windsor (Conn.) -- History -- Sources.
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10	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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11	Title:	Manasseh Cutler Journals
	Creator:	Cutler, Manasseh
	Dates:	1787-1807
	Abstract:	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).
	Call #:	MS 0400
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823. \| Ohio Company. \| Clergy -- Ohio -- Diaries. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Real property -- Ohio. \| New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel. \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel. \| Marietta (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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12	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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13	Title:	Jonathan Law Diary
	Creator:	Law, Jonathan
	Dates:	1802
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 0597
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Law, Jonathan. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Burton (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Chillicothe (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Painesville (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Poland (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Warren (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| Ohio -- Description and travel. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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14	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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15	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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16	Title:	Maria D. Coffinberry Family Papers
	Creator:	Coffinberry, Maria D. Family
	Dates:	1767-1930
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 2805
	Extent:	1.20 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Coffinberry family. \| Morgan family. \| Hampson family. \| Duane family. \| DuBarry family. \| Chevalier family. \| Shipbuilding -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Cumberland Gap, Battle of, 1862. \| Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863. \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. \| Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836 -- Personal narratives. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. \| Zanesville (Ohio) -- Biography.
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