Connecticut Western Reserve

The Connecticut Western Reserve was land that was claimed in the area of the Northwest Territory, now northeastern Ohio from the U.S. state of Connecticut.

To land owned by the State of Connecticut originally belonged larger portions west of present-day territory. In the Pennamite - Yankee wars against the Pennsylvania State lost, however, the areas that are today in Pennsylvania. The country west of it, between the 41st and the 42nd Latitude remained claimed by Connecticut - theoretically to the Pacific. The country outside of Ohio in 1786 delivered to the U.S. federal government, for which they took over sovereign debt of the American Revolutionary War. Within the present-day Ohio were among 12,000 km ² to Connecticut, the Connecticut Western Reserve. As of 1796 the state to grant the land to settlers began, though the claims of the Indians until 1805 were ceded with the Treaty of Fort Industry. Within the area soon developed numerous cities, including Cleveland.

Connecticut waived only in 1800 on the Western Reserve. The set up in this area townships differ in their size ( 5 × 5 miles) from the result of the land survey from 1785 usually furnished townships (6 × 6 miles).

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