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The Connecticut Land Company was formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the Connecticut Western Reserve
Connecticut Western Reserve

The Connecticut Western Reserve was land claimed by Connecticut in the Northwest Territory in what is now Northeast Ohio....
, part of the Old Northwest Territory
Northwest Territory

The Northwest Territory, formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States....
. The Western Reserve is located in Northeast Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
 with its hub being Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
. The original proprieters, 57 of the wealthiest and most prominent men in Connecticut, included Oliver Phelps
Oliver Phelps

Oliver Phelps was born in Poquonock, Connecticut and moved to Suffield, Connecticut, where he apprenticed to a local merchant. He shortly thereafter became a tavern keeper in Granville, Massachusetts....
, 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, 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.






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The Connecticut Land Company was formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the Connecticut Western Reserve
Connecticut Western Reserve

The Connecticut Western Reserve was land claimed by Connecticut in the Northwest Territory in what is now Northeast Ohio....
, part of the Old Northwest Territory
Northwest Territory

The Northwest Territory, formally known as the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, was a governmental region within the early United States....
. The Western Reserve is located in Northeast Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
 with its hub being Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
. The original proprieters, 57 of the wealthiest and most prominent men in Connecticut, included Oliver Phelps
Oliver Phelps

Oliver Phelps was born in Poquonock, Connecticut and moved to Suffield, Connecticut, where he apprenticed to a local merchant. He shortly thereafter became a tavern keeper in Granville, Massachusetts....
, 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, 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.