Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-23
The "west,e.r, Rsssrts.

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tain part Of Ohi6 called ths 'sWe6oGtn
Reserve" but Sow q cur reodoeu, -
haps, know what The phrase mess.
The name Of 'Western Reserve" = 80
piled 10 the twsivs north eaitseA eoux8
ies Of Ohio; and this district was oaeo
. part Of the 6tate a Connsstieuk
Forty years ego, IL vus slill Quits esm-
monty spoken Of - New Ooonectieuk.
When. the lands in America ware
given away BY the Kings Of England.
the territory was not surveyed or even
explored, and the charters couficted.
The Plymouth and the Virginia compa-
MES both received titles 10 the sano
land. The Plymouth company, in 1880.
made large grant Of land TO the Earl
OF Warwick, who, in 1881, conveyed &
to viscount Say and Seal Brook. Thu
was the origin Of the Connecticut ret
Element.
TIE patent did not clearly define ths
north and south boundaries, bat IL
territory reached from the NarragAn-
sett River westward across the CONT
nent. In 1862. King Charles II. Axsd
the northern boundary and confirmed
the patent, under which Connecticut
afterwards laid claim to . large part a
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Afterwards,
the Indians granted many Of thsse
lands 70 Great Britain, which, long
before the Revolution. had excluded
the colonists from the territory west a
the mountains.
At the Close Of the Revolution, there
were three claimants 10 the territory
northwest Of the Ohio River: Virgins,
which claimed under her original char
ter; Connecticut, which claimed under
the Lord Say and Seal Brook deed; and
the United States, which, By treaty
with England, received the rights con-
veyed by the Indians. The contest was
quite sharp, but il resulted in Uonneo-
ticut ceding all her rights Of govern
ment in the Western Territory to the
United States. She was, however, a.
lowed to retain the ownership Of IN
amount of land about % large - Old
Connecticut in the northeastern corner
Of Ohio. on Lake Erie.
This settlement, which II took nearly
twenty years to make, was completed
in the year 1900. The Reserve con-
sisted of the land between the forty
first parallel Of latitude and the parallel
of forty-two degrees two minutes. Tho
eastern boundary was the Pennsylvania
line, and the western was line ono
hundred and twenty miles west OF tho
Pennsylvania frontier and parallel to
it.
In 1895, before the agreement with
the general government was fully COM
pleted, the Legislature Of Connecticut
had sold to an association OF it, citizens
three million acres Of land from that
which it had reserved whom il decided
the rest to the United States in 1706.
These persons styled themselves The
Connecticut Land Company. Before
they obtained deed, they had also
purchased the whole property OF tho
State Of Connecticut in what il now
Ohio. This company sent out Q sur
veying party in 1885, under Moses
cleveland, one OF the directors, for
whom what il now the city Of Cleve-
land was named. Il will be noticed
that one letter Of his name has been
dropped. @
The later history, of the Reserve il
interesting, but we only intended 70
tell how it obtained its name. II may
be said, however, that the money OBJ
taiued from the sale by Connecticut
was tho foundation Of the magnificent
school fund Of that State, and has done
much to make her the ''land Of steady
habits" she is reputed TO be.-Yoaths
Companion.