About this collection
- Pease, Seth, various surveys and field notes bound into one volume: survey of 1st parallel, August 1796; traverse of the Chagrin River and survey of 8th meridian, August 1796; survey of 5th parallel, September 1796; illustrated plat of Cleveland (Town 8, Range 12), undated; description of lots in Cleveland (Town 8, Range 12), undated; and minutes of surveys of streets in Cleveland (Town 8, Range 12), undated 1796 undated, Featured in the "Cleveland Starts Here" Exhibit
- 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., Featured in the "Cleveland Starts Here" Exhibit