Subject | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. | [X] | | • | Connecticut Land Company. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. |
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| | • | Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History |
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| | • | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Medina County. |
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| | • | Real property -- Western Reserve (Ohio) |
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| | • | Antislavery movements -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Warren. |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Bell, Margaret Van Horn Dwight, 1790-1834. |
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| | • | Bierce, Lucius Verus, 1801-1876. |
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| | • | Bigelow, Timothy. |
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| | • | Breck family. |
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| | • | Breck, John, 1770-1827. |
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| | • | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Brecksville (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Carter, Lorenzo, 1767-1814. |
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| | • | Case family. |
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| | • | Case, Leonard, 1786-1864. |
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| | • | Clarke, James S. |
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| | • | Clergy -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Biography. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Miscellanea. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Periodicals. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Societies, etc. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Maps. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Clinton County (Ill.) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Coit, Daniel Lathrop, 1754-1833. |
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| | • | Commercial Bank of Lake Erie (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Connecticut -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Deeds -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve -- Periodicals. |
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| | • | Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve. |
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| | • | Eckstein family. |
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| | • | Ellsworth, Elijah. |
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| | • | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Antiquities. |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
(1)
| | • | Judges -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Land companies -- Western Reserve (Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Land titles -- Michigan. |
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| | • | Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. |
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| | • | Lawyers -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Mather family. |
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| | • | Mather, Samuel, b. 1745. |
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| | • | Mound-builders -- Ohio. |
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| | • | New York (State) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Northwest, Old -- History. |
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| | • | Ohio -- Descripton and travel. |
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| | • | Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865. |
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| | • | Ohio -- History. |
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| | • | Ohio -- Maps. |
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| | • | Patriotic societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Pease, Calvin, 1776-1839. |
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| | • | Pease, Seth, 1764-1819. |
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| | • | Penobscut (Maine) -- Surveys. |
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| | • | Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. |
(1)
| | • | Phelps family. |
(1)
| | • | Phelps, Oliver, 1749-1809. |
(1)
| | • | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
(1)
| | • | Real estate -- Connecticut. |
(1)
| | • | Real estate -- Michigan. |
(1)
| | • | Real estate -- New York. |
(1)
| | • | Real estate -- Ohio. |
(1)
| | • | Real estate -- Western Reserve (Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Real property -- Michigan. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Ashtabula County. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Portage County. |
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| | • | Robbins, Ammi Ruhamah, 1740-1813. |
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| | • | Root, Ephraim, 1762-1825. |
(1)
| | • | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
(1)
| | • | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Brecksville. |
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| | • | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Diaries. |
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| | • | Surveyors -- United States -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. |
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| | • | Tappan, Abraham, 1779-1855. |
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| | • | Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857. |
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| | • | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. |
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| | • | Trumbull County (Ohio) -- History. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Sources. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- 19th century. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
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| | • | Walworth, John, 1765-1812. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Miscellanea. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Periodicals. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Societies, etc. |
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| | • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Maps. |
(1)
| | • | Western Reserve Bank of Warren, Ohio. |
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| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
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| | • | Women pioneers -- United States -- Correspondence. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 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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