The Connecticut Land Company was formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the Connecticut Western Reserve, part of the Old Northwest Territory. The Western Reserve is located in Northeast Ohio with its hub being Cleveland. The Connecticut Western Reserve was land claimed by Connecticut in the Northwest Territory in what is now northeastern Ohio. ... The Northwest Territory, also known as the Old Northwest and the Territory North West of the Ohio, was a government and region within the early United States. ... Official language(s) None Capital Largest city Columbus Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area Ranked 34th - Total 44,825 sq. ... Nickname: The Forest City Motto: Progress and Prosperity Official website: www. ...
He was a shareholder in the ConnecticutLandCompany, which had purchased for $1,200,000 from the state government of Connecticut the land in northeastern Ohio reserved to Connecticut by Congress, known at its first settlement as New Connecticut, and in later times as the Western Reserve.
He was approached by the directors of the company in May, 1796 and asked to lead the survey of the tract and the location of purchases.
Some journeyed by land with the horses and cattle, while the main body went in boats up the Mohawk, down the Oswego, along the shore of Lake Ontario, and up Niagara River, carrying their boats over the long portage of seven miles at the falls.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was populated by families from a section of Wethersfield, Connecticut, while Williamstown was a conglomerate of a number of Connecticut River towns.
While Connecticut was divided on this policy, Governor Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785) and the easterners in the General Assembly pressed the British Privy Council for a favorable settlement of the land dispute with Pennsylvania.
Despite the concern of Connecticut officials, the tide of emigration to Ohio swelled.
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