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Trumbull County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. (3)
United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources. (3)
Wadsworth, Elijah, 1747-1817. (3)
Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. (2)
Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. (2)
Connecticut Land Company (2)
Hinde, Thomas S. (Thomas Spottswood), 1785-1846. (2)
Installment land contracts -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. (2)
Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. (2)
Postmasters -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. (2)
Real property -- Ohio -- Portage County. (2)
Real property tax -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. (2)
Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve (2)
Tappan, Abraham, 1779-1855. (2)
Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. (2)
United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848. (2)
Wadsworth family (2)
Wadsworth family. (2)
Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel. (2)
Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History (2)
Whittlesey, Elisha, 1783-1863. (2)
Antislavery movements -- Ohio. (1)
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Bank of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
Bank of Geauga (Geauga, Ohio) (1)
Bank of Geneva (Geneva, Ohio) (1)
Bank of Orleans (Orleans, Ohio) (1)
Bank of St. Clair (St. Clair, Ohio) (1)
Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Warren. (1)
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Breck family (1)
Breck family. (1)
Breck, John, -- 1770-1827 (1)
Breck, John, 1770-1827. (1)
Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy (1)
Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy. (1)
Brecksville (Ohio) -- History (1)
Brecksville (Ohio) -- History. (1)
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1Title:  Nathan Moore Field Notes     
 Creator:  Moore, Nathan 
 Dates:  1798 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of surveys of lots in Campfield (Canfield), Mahoning County, Ohio, taken by Nathan Moore. 
 Call #:  MS 1521 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Moore, Nathan. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Canfield (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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2Title:  Seth I. Ensign Field Notes     
 Creator:  Ensign, Seth I. 
 Dates:  1806 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of field notes of the original survey of Tallmadge, Ohio, made by Seth Ensign. 
 Call #:  MS 1588 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Ensign, Seth I. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Tallmadge (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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3Title:  Mapping the land: Western Reserve scapes and shapes : conference papers, November 13-14, 1992    
 Creator:  Western Reserve Studies Symposium (7th : 1992 : Cleveland, Ohio) 
 Haddad, Gladys.
 Western Reserve Historical Society
 Publication:  Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio,1992. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographies and references. 
 Call #:  F35D W528 1992 
 Extent:  1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 28 cm. 
 Subjects:  Land settlement -- Western Reserve | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Congresses | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys
 
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4Title:  Alfred Wolcott Field Notes and Surveys     
 Creator:  Wolcott, Alfred 
 Dates:  1799-1817 
 Abstract:  The collection consists of notes, surveys, and maps of land in Ashtabula, Batavia, Braceville, Brecksville, Chardon, Coitsville, Concord, Ellsworth, Fowler, Guilford, Howland, Leffingwell, Liberty, Liverpool, Monroe, Newbury, Newton, Parkman, Ravenna, Richfield, Southington, and York, Ohio. Most of these surveys of land located in the Western Reserve were made by Wolcott for General Simon Perkins. 
 Call #:  MS 0725 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844. | Wolcott, Alfred. | Ohio -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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5Title:  Abraham Tappan Papers     
 Creator:  Tappan, Abraham 
 Dates:  1803-1879 
 Abstract:  Abraham Tappan (1779-1855) was a surveyor and postmaster of Unionville, Ohio, during the nineteenth century. The collection includes correspondence relating to land transactions, surveys and politics in the Western Reserve; and field notes made by Tappan while surveying Henry Champion's land in Concord Township, the road from the Muskingum River to Lake Erie, the road from the mouth of the Grand River to Warren, Ohio, and areas west of the Cuyahoga River and north of the Tuscarawas River. 
 Call #:  MS 0259 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Tappan, Abraham, 1779-1855. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Correspondence. | Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. | Ohio -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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6Title:  Aaron Olmsted Field Notes     
 Creator:  Olmsted, Aaron 
 Dates:  ca. 1803 
 Abstract:  Aaron Olmsted was an original shareholder of the Connecticut Land Company and early settler of the Western Reserve (Ohio). He owned and sold off all the land in Franklin Township, Portage County, Ohio. He also founded Poland, Ohio, and gave his name to North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls, and Olmsted Township, three suburbs of Cleveland. The collection consists of notes taken during a survey of Franklin Township, Portage County, Ohio, which commenced in 1803. 
 Call #:  MS 0680 
 Extent:  0.10 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Olmsted, Aaron. | Real property -- Ohio -- Portage County. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Franklin (Portage County, Ohio: Township) -- Surveys.
 
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7Title:  Joshua Stow Papers     
 Creator:  Stow, Joshua 
 Dates:  1795-1832 
 Abstract:  Joshua Stow was an original shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company and commissary on the Moses Cleaveland surveying party in the Western Reserve. The ollection consists of a summary of expenses for surveys in the Western Reserve for the Connecticut Land Company; letters from Jared Mansfield, Samuel Storrs, Joseph Beebe, Oliver Beebe, Leonard Case, Noah Newton, and from Henry Champion, a director of the Connecticut Land Company, concerning the southwest boundary of the Western Reserve; and papers concerning the survey of the Firelands by Maxfield Ludlow. 
 Call #:  MS 1100 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1) 
 Subjects:  Stow, Joshua. | Connecticut Land Company. | Surveying -- Ohio. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- History -- 1787-1865 -- Sources. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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8Title:  Clarence H. Hutchinson Papers     
 Creator:  Hutchinson, Clarence H. 
 Dates:  1930-1939 
 Abstract:  Clarence H. Hutchinson was an assistant engineer in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Surveyor's Office. The collection consists of surveys, deeds, contracts, township and county records, and notes, relating to the history of road construction in the Western Reserve, acquired by Hutchinson under the auspices of the Ohio Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration. Includes material on taverns and hotels in Cleveland. 
 Call #:  MS 2996 
 Extent:  1.60 linear feet (4 containers) 
 Subjects:  Hutchinson, Clarence H. | Road construction -- Western Reserve (Ohio) | Hotels, taverns, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Ohio -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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9Title:  Samuel Holden Parsons Papers     
 Creator:  Parsons, Samuel Holden 
 Dates:  1760-1830 
 Abstract:  Samuel Holden (1735-1789) was a Connecticut lawyer, legislator and militia colonel who became a general and commander of the 6th Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The collection consists of correspondence, enlistment papers, military appointments, orders, commissaries' accounts, supply orders, commissions, surveys of Western Reserve lands, accounts, receipts, legal papers, an index, a list of goods for Indian trade, and an orderly book. 
 Call #:  MS 3204 
 Extent:  0.40 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Parsons, Samuel Holden, 1735-1789. | Parsons family. | Soldiers -- Connecticut -- Correspondence. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources.
 
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10Title:  Samuel Holden Parsons papers, 1760-1830    
 Creator:  Parsons, Samuel Holden, 1735-1789 
 Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
 Hancock, John, 1737-1793
 Washington, George, 1732-1799
 United States Continental Army. Connecticut Regiment, 6th.
 Publication:   
 Call #:  MS. 3204 
 Extent:  1 roll of microfilm. 
 Subjects:  Parsons, Samuel Holden, -- 1735-1789 | Parsons family | Soldiers -- Connecticut -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Sources
 
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11Title:  Amzi Atwater Journal     
 Creator:  Atwater, Amzi 
 Dates:  1796 
 Abstract:  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. 
 Call #:  MS 0735 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. | Connecticut Land Company. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve -- Diaries. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Description and travel.
 
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12Title:  Amzi Atwater Field Notes     
 Creator:  Atwater, Amzi 
 Dates:  1797 
 Abstract:  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). 
 Call #:  MS 1693 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850. | Connecticut Land Company. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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13Title:  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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14Title:  John Breck family papers, 1782-1993    
 Creator:  Breck, John, 1770-1827 
 Breck family.
 Breck, Clarissa Allen.
 Breck, Theodore, ca. 1808-1895
 Breck, Edward M.
 Breck, Alida Lucretia Fritzius.
 Breck, John Adams.
 Breck, Joseph Hunt.
 Publication:   
 Call #:  MS. 4675 
 Extent:  2 microfilm rolls. 
 Subjects:  Breck, John, -- 1770-1827 | Breck family | Deeds -- Ohio -- Brecksville | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Brecksville | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Brecksville | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Brecksville | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve | Real property -- Ohio -- Brecksville | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve | Brecksville (Ohio) -- History | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Surveys | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History
 
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15Title:  John Breck Family Papers, Joint Manuscript and Microfilm Edition     
 Creator:  Breck, John Family 
 Dates:  1782-1993 
 Abstract:  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 Amherst College and received a medical degree from Wooster College. He served in World War I, was on the staff of Glenville Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, was a member of the Early Settlers Club, and president of the Brecksville Centennial in 1911. The collection consists of Consists of letters, diaries, poems, writings, newspaper clippings, obituaries, historical notes, receipts, accounts, contracts, deeds, land surveys, wills, powers of attorney, legal documents, certificates, and photographs. 
 Call #:  MS 4675 
 Extent:  0.90 linear feet (2 containers, 1 oversize folder, and 2 rolls of microfilm) 
 Subjects:  Breck, John, 1770-1827. | Breck family. | Deeds -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Brecksville. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Brecksville (Ohio) -- History. | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Brecksville (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History.
 
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16Title:  Manuscripts relating to the early history of the Connecticut Western Reserve, 1764-1874     
 Creator:  Atwater, Amzi, 1776-1850 
 Atkins, Quintus Flaminius, 1782-1859
 Barr, John.
 Cleaveland, Moses, 1754-1806
 Harmon, John, 1789-1871
 Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
 Holley, John Milton.
 Hudson, David, 1761-1836
 Dates:   none  
 Call #:  Microfilm (Cab. 54:2) MS. 1 
 Extent:  6 rolls of microfilm. 
 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 | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys | Northwest, Old -- History | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History
 
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 Available Related Digital Materials
 Finding aid for Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Connecticut Western Reserve: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OCLWHi1183
 Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Connecticut Western Reserve in Digital Case: http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:wrhsms
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17Title:  Elijah Wadsworth family papers, 1792-1868    
 Creator:  Wadsworth, Elijah, 1747-1817 
 Wadsworth, Frederick, 1786-1869
 Wadsworth, Wedworth, 1782-1860
 Austin, Eliphalet.
 Boardman, Elijah.
 Bradley, Abraham.
 Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822
 Guitteau, Judson.
 Publication:   
 Call #:  MS. 2729 
 Extent:  2 rolls of microfilm. 
 Subjects:  Wadsworth, Elijah, -- 1747-1817 | Wadsworth family | Connecticut Land Company | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve | Real property -- Ohio -- Medina County | Real property -- Michigan -- Monroe County | Trumbull County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources | Ohio. -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources | Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865 | Ohio -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources | United States -- History -- War of 1812 -- Sources | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Biography | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys
 
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18Title:  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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19Title:  Harmon Family Papers     
 Creator:  Harmon Family 
 Dates:  1766-1885 
 Abstract:  The Harmon family moved to Mantua, Portage County, Ohio from Suffield Connecticut, in 1799. Elias Harmon held several public offices and was land agent for many Connecticut residents. His son, Orrin, was active in the land business and was surveyor for Portage County and the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. Julian Harmon was the son of Orrin. The collection contains the papers of Elias, Orrin, Julian and Martin Harmon. Includes correspondence, diaries, financial accounts and receipts, land deeds and memoranda of sales, legal documents, estate papers, powers of attorney, tax records, notebooks, surveys, and other papers, documenting their note collection and land agency business. Also, includes material on the Protection Life Insurance Co. of Hartford, the Franklin and Warren Railroad, the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, the Independent Knights of Temperance, and the fur trade and anti-slavery movement, with references to state and national politics, banking policies, and anti-masonic movements. 
 Call #:  MS 0104 
 Extent:  5.40 linear feet (14 containers) 
 Subjects:  Harmon family. | Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. | Independent Knights of Temperance. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. | Peddlers and peddling -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Deeds -- Ohio -- Portage County. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Portage County. | Fur trade -- United States. | Executors and administrators -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Antislavery movements -- United States. | Mantua (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Portage County (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Portage County (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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20Title:  Zalmon Fitch Papers     
 Creator:  Fitch, Zalmon 
 Dates:  1781-1866 
 Abstract:  Zalmon Fitch (1785-1860) was an early Ohio attorney and land agent, and a leader in the financial circles of Cleveland and Warren, Ohio. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Fitch established the second general store in the Western Reserve in Canfield, Ohio, in 1810. He moved to Warren in 1813 and served as the land agent for several of the original stockholders of the Connecticut Land Company. Fitch was cashier of the Western Reserve Bank when it was established in 1816 and served in that capacity for 23 years until he became president. Fitch was the trustee appointed by the receivers of the Bank of Cleveland to settle its affairs after its collapse in the Panic of 1837. Fitch also served on the board of directors of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad in 1859. The ollection consists of correspondence, contracts, surveys, financial calculations, tax records, receipts, promissory notes, sight drafts, insurance policies, powers of attorney, and miscellaneous legal papers, relating to Fitch's activities as a land agent; records of the Bank of Cleveland and the Western Reserve Bank; correspondence concerning the Banks of Geauga, Geneva, Orleans, and St. Clair, the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, and the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad; correspondence and transactions of Simon Perkins, Elihu Spencer, and William Williams; and copies of letters, a will, affidavits, and an essay pertaining to John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat. 
 Call #:  MS 0581 
 Extent:  7.00 linear feet (15 containers) 
 Subjects:  Fitch, Zalmon, 1785-1860. | Bank of Geauga (Geauga, Ohio) | Bank of Geneva (Geneva, Ohio) | Bank of Orleans (Orleans, Ohio) | Bank of St. Clair (St. Clair, Ohio) | Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad. | Bank of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio). | Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. | Western Reserve Bank of Warren, Ohio. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Railroad companies -- Ohio. | Real property tax -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Installment land contracts -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys.
 
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