http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dcompany%20OR%20corporation;facet-format%3DManuscript%20Collection;facet-format%3DPhotograph%20Collection;f1-subject%3DWestern%20Reserve%20(Ohio)%20--%20History. Results for your query: freeformQuery=company OR corporation;facet-format=Manuscript Collection;facet-format=Photograph Collection;f1-subject=Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1693.xml Amzi Atwater (1776-1850) was an assistant surveyor in Moses Cleaveland's Western Reserve surveying party of the Connecticut Land Company. The collection consists of field notes for surveys of land in eastern Cuyahoga County, near Lake Erie (townships 6 and 7, range 11). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1693.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0735.xml Amzi Atwater (1776-1850) was an assistant surveyor in Moses Cleveland's Western Reserve surveying party. The collection consists of a journal containing a description of the Western Reserve in 1796 as recorded by Atwater. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0735.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1314.xml Daniel Lathrop Coit (1754-1833) was a resident of Norwich, Connecticut, and original shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company that developed the Western Reserve and Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of land agreements and associated papers concerning sales by Coit to residents of Medina and Portage Counties, Ohio. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1314.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5181.xml The Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve is a Cleveland, Ohio, social organization for descendants of early settlers of the Western Reserve. Established in 1879 as the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, the organization has supported a variety of historical and civic projects. The collection consists of addresses, advertisements, agendas, agreements, annual reports, applications, articles of incorporation, bibliographies, board of trustees minutes, book manuscripts, brochures, by-laws, certificates, constitutions, correspondence, diary entries, dues payments, family trees, financial records, flyers, forms, genealogies, handbooks, indexes, inventories, invitations, itineraries, journal articles, journals, lectures, lists, magazine articles, magazine clippings, maps, meeting announcements, membership cards, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, pamphlets, photographs, post cards, press releases, proclamations, progra... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5181.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3235.xml Ephraim Root (1762-1825) was a Connecticut lawyer and state congressman who was also clerk of the Connecticut Land Company. The collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, legal documents and memorandums of Ephraim Root; and accounts, a tax list, minutes, memorandums, draft slips and a draft book of the Connecticut Land Company. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3235.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4675.xml The John Breck family, natives of Massachusetts, purchased land in the Western Reserve from the Connecticut Land Company. By 1803, John Breck was sole owner of the family's land in what is now Brecksville, Ohio. He married Clarissa Allen and they had six children. Seth Paine and Alfred Wolcott surveyed the Breck family land in 1811. Paine and his family became Brecksville's first settlers. The first family member to live in Brecksville was John Breck's nephew, the Reverend Joseph Hunt Breck, who later settled in Newburgh, Ohio. John Breck's sons John Adams, Theodore, and Edward, came to Brecksville in 1830. Theodore Breck was a merchant in Brecksville, served as a Cuyahoga County commissioner, and represented the Brecksville area in the Ohio state legislature. Edward M. Breck setled in Huntsburg, Geauga County, Ohio, and in later years returned to Brecksville. His son, Edward King Breck, married Mary Louisa Oakes of Brecksville, and they had two children. Their son, Theodore Breck attended Oberlin College and... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4675.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0001.xml 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; la... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0001.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3236.xml The Oliver Phelps family held real estate in Connecticut, New York, Ohio and Michigan. The collection consists of correspondence, accounts, surveys and legal documents relating to the Phelps family's real estate interests. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3236.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3234.xml 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. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3234.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5362.xml The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing p... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5362.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5147.xml The Western Reserve Printed Ephemera Collection is a collection of pamphlets drawn from previously processed collections held by Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. The pamphlets were generally removed from their original collections due to lack of relevance to the collection, but retained and grouped together in a separate collection because of their historic value. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5147.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT