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 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, his Suffield associate Gideon Granger Jr., as well as Ebenezer Huntington, Samuel Mather Jr., William Hart, Moses Cleaveland, Elijah Wadsworth, Elisha Hyde, Matthew Nicholl, Luther Loomis, Asahel Hatheway, Pierpont Edwards, Daniel Holbrook, Roger Newberry, Ebenezer King, Ephraim Root, Sylvanus Griswold, Solomon Cowles, Daniel Lathrop Coit, Joseph Howland, Elias Morgan, Ephraim Starr, William Lyman, David King, Timothy Burr and others.
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]
References
- ^ a b DeRogatis, Amy (2003). Moral geography. Columbia University Press. p. 21. ISBN 9780231127899.
- ^ Meinig, Donald W (1986). The Shaping of America. Yale University Press. pp. 356. ISBN 9780300038828.
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