http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 XTF Search Results (freeformQuery=government;expand=subject;f1-subject=Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio.) http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dgovernment;expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3DFrontier%20and%20pioneer%20life%20--%20Ohio. Results for your query: freeformQuery=government;expand=subject;f1-subject=Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT Ephraim Brown Family Papers. Brown, Ephraim Family http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1872.xml Ephraim Brown (1775-1845) was a land agent and legislator of North Bloomfield, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, land agreements, deeds, account books, business papers, financial receipts, certificates, and court-docket books relating to Brown's activities in the Ohio legislature (1820s-30s), as road commissioner of Ohio, and in business ventures. Includes account books of E. A. Brown & Brothers Company and other papers of Brown's son, Ephraim A. Brown; papers of other family members, and plans and charts of North Bloomfield, Ohio. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1872.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Western Reserve Historical Society 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 Zenas Ball Family Papers. Ball, Zenas Family http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3306.xml Zenas Ball moved from New Jersey to a farm in Knox County, Ohio, in 1819. His son Aaron was the father of Webb C. and F. Grant Ball. Webb C. was the owner of the Webb. C. Ball Co. and the Ball Time Inspection Service. F. Grant was a jeweler, violin maker and family historian of the Ball International Union. The collection consists of genealogical material, correspondence, wills, newspaper clippings and certificates, biographies and obituaries of Webb C. Ball, Morris Township school registers and a road tax list, and papers of the Ball International Union, the Webb C. Ball Co., and the Ball Time Inspection Service. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3306.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT