Connecticut Land Company

A Plan of the Survey made by & under the direction of Augustus Porter upon the Connecticut-Reserve for the Connecticut Land Company in the Year 1796. Showing the Western Reserve divided into sections and the town and city of Cleaveland (Cleveland). (Zoom)

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. In 1795, the Connecticut Land Company bought three million acres (12,000 km²) of the Western Reserve. Settlers used the guidelines of the Land Ordinance of 1785, which demanded the owners survey the land before settlement.^[1] In 1796, the company began surveys and sales on property east of Cuyahoga.^[2]

The original proprieters, 57 of the wealthiest and most prominent men in Connecticut, included Oliver Phelps, the largest subscriber and chief manager of the project. In 1796, one of the largest shareholders, Moses Cleaveland, planned a settlement on the banks of the Cuyahoga River with Seth Pease. This planned settlement would become the city of Cleveland.^[1]

The Deeds for the land were executed as follows: ^[3]

No of Deeds	Names of Grantees	Integral parts of lands conveyed, divided into 1,200,000 shares
No 1	Robert Charles Johnson	$60,000
No 2&3	Moses Cleaveland	$32,600
No 4	William Judd	$16,250
No 5	James Johnson	$30,000
No 6	William Law	$10,500
No 7	Daniel Holbrook	$8,750
No 8	Pierpont Edwards	$60,000
No 9	James Bull, Aaron Olmsted, John Wiles	$30,000
No 10	Elisha Hyde, Uriah Tracy	$57,400
No 11	Luther Loomis, Ebenezer King	$44,318
No 12	Roger Newberry, Enoch Perkins, Jonathan Brace	$38,000
No 13	Ephraim Root	$42,000
No 14	Ephraim Kirby, Uriel Holmes Jr, Elijah Boardman	$60,000
No 15	Oliver Phelps, Gideon Granger Jr	$80,000
No 16	Oliver Phelps	$168,185
No 17	John Caldwell, Peleg Sanford	$15,000
No 18	Soloman Cowles	$10,000
No 19	Soloman Griswold	$10,000
No 20	Henry Champion 2d	$85,675
No 21	Samuel P Lord	$14,092
No 22	Jazeb Stocking, Joshua Stow	$11,423
No 23	Timothy Burr	$15,231
No 24	Caleb Atwater	$22,846
No 25	Titus Street	$22,846
No 26	Elias Morgan, Daniel Lathrop Coit	$51,402
No 27	Joseph Howland, Daniel Lathrop Coit	$30,461
No 28	Asher Miller	$34,000
No 29	Ephraim Starr	$17,415
No 30	Joseph Williams	$15,231
No 31	William Lyman, John Stoddard, David King	$24,730
No 32	Nehemiah Hubbard Jr	$19,039
No 33	Asahel Hathaway	$12,000
No 34	William Hart	$30,462
No 35	Samuel Mather Jr	$18,461
No 36	Sylvanus Griswold	$1,683

References

1. ^ ^{a b} DeRogatis, Amy (2003). Moral geography. Columbia University Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780231127899. 
2. ^ Meinig, Donald W (1986). The Shaping of America. Yale University Press. pp. 356. ISBN 9780300038828. 
3. ^ Shepard, Claude L (1916). The Connecticut land company and accompanying papers. Cleveland, OH: Western Reserve Historical Society. pp. 135–136. ISBN 1153337827. http://www.archive.org/stream/connecticutlandc00west#page/134/mode/2up/search/olmsted. Retrieved 2010-10-13.