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1	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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2	Title:	Manasseh Cutler Journals
	Creator:	Cutler, Manasseh
	Dates:	1787-1807
	Abstract:	Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) was a land agent for the Ohio Company of Associates. The collection consists of handwritten copies of journals describing Cutler's trips to New York and Philadelphia (1787) to negotiate a contract with Congress for the purchase of lands for the Ohio Company, and to the future site of Marietta, Ohio (1788) to visit the Ohio Company purchase there. Included in the second volume is a journal of Reverend Joseph Badger (1803-1807).
	Call #:	MS 0400
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823. \| Ohio Company. \| Clergy -- Ohio -- Diaries. \| Travelers -- United States -- Diaries. \| Real property -- Ohio. \| New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel. \| Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel. \| Marietta (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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3	Title:	George K. Jenkins Papers
	Creator:	Jenkins, George K.
	Dates:	1788-1887
	Abstract:	George K. Jenkins was a Quaker teacher in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, during the nineteenth century. The collection includes minutes, lists of certificates, members and marriages, and other records of various meetings of the Society of Friends in Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia; records of Quaker schools and organizations, including the Ohio Yearly Meeting and its Committee on Indian Affairs, the New Garden Monthly Meeting, the Short Creek Meeting, and the Free Produce Association. Includes a journal of Jenkins' observations of Quaker colonies he visited in Canada, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia; an account of the immigration of William Harrison from York County, Virginia, to Mount Pleasant, Ohio (1817); and a memoranda book (1849-60) kept by David Updegraff on visits to Yearly Meetings in Indiana, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
	Call #:	MS 0100
	Extent:	1.80 linear feet (4 containers and 2 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Church schools -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant. \| Quakers -- Canada. \| Quakers -- United States. \| Quakers -- Ohio. \| Quakers -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant -- Education. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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4	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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5	Title:	John Evelyn Denison Ossington Diaries
	Creator:	Ossington, John Evelyn Denison
	Dates:	1824-1825
	Abstract:	John Evelyn Denison Ossington was the speaker of England's House of Commons (1857-1872). He was created Viscount Ossington upon his retirement. The collection consists of typescript copies of diaries and of several letters (addressed to his mother) written while Denison was on a tour of Canada and the United States.
	Call #:	MS 3172
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Ossington, John Evelyn Denison, Viscount, 1800-1872. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1817-1825. \| United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865. \| Canada -- Description and travel -- 1763-1867.
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6	Title:	Maria D. Coffinberry Family Papers
	Creator:	Coffinberry, Maria D. Family
	Dates:	1767-1930
	Abstract:	The collection includes records of the Coffinberry and Morgan families and allied families of Hampson, Duane, DuBarry, and Chevalier. Members of these families were at the forefront of events in American, Ohio and Cleveland history, from before the Revolutionary War until the Reconstruction period and beyond. The collection consists of correspondence, journals, other manuscript materials, plats, maps, pamphlets, political broadsides, speeches, newspaper clippings, biographical and genealogical items, engravings, campaign ribbons, and other family memorabilia.
	Call #:	MS 2805
	Extent:	1.20 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Coffinberry family. \| Morgan family. \| Hampson family. \| Duane family. \| DuBarry family. \| Chevalier family. \| Shipbuilding -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Reserve (Ohio) \| Cumberland Gap, Battle of, 1862. \| Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863. \| United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources. \| United States -- History -- War with Mexico, 1845-1848 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. \| Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836 -- Personal narratives. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. \| Zanesville (Ohio) -- Biography.
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7	Title:	Hudson Family Papers
	Creator:	Hudson Family
	Dates:	1799-1836
	Abstract:	David Hudson, Sr. (1761-1836) was the founder of Hudson, Ohio and a member of the party which came from Litchfield, Connecticut to survey and organize Hudson in 1799. He returned in 1800 with a colonizing party which included his family. David Jr. and Anner Mary were two of his children. The collection consists of David Hudson, Sr.'s journal and account book (1799-1801), which describes the surveying party's trip from Connecticut to Hudson, Ohio and Hudson's return trip; ten of David Hudson, Jr.'s journals (1820-1836) describing farm life in early Hudson, Ohio; and Anner Mary Hudson Baldwin's recipe book (1830).
	Call #:	MS 3893
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Hudson family. \| Hudson, David, 1761-1836. \| Baldwin, Anner Mary Hudson, 1800-1892. \| Farm life -- Ohio -- Hudson. \| Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. \| Pioneers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. \| Farmers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. \| Cookery, American. \| Hudson (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Hudson (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Ohio -- Description and travel. \| United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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