Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-27
ALL CONNECTICUT INTERESTED
 IN CLEVELAND ANNIVERSARY

T laid out town on the banks of | Lake Erie, which was called by my l name
 The years that have passed since that ! memorable achievement. reported by l General Moses Cleveland of Canterbury derness of New Connecticut are six score and five, says the Hartford Sunday Cou- rant.
 The celebration with nine days of pag- eantry, parades. carnival and other events, by Cleveland. O.. recently of the 125th anniversary of its founding had particular interest for Connecticut, for il was not only General Cleveland of Can terhury, who as director of and Super intendent Of the Connecticut Land Com pany founded the city bearing his name. but it was also the state of Connecticut which owned the land upon which the city was founded. General Cleveland and a party of surveyors from connccti- cut. July 22. I796, left their boats on the shores of Lake Erie, near the mouth of the Cuyahoga river and planted a set tlement in the wilderness. This historic event was reenacted during the obsery ance by a party of Cleveland's proni- nent citizens.
 This favored area Of northeastern Ohio , was part of the great western de- main secured to Connecticut by the fam | eus charter of 1862. which gave her sole possession of a tract extending from Mar | ragansett Bay in the east across the en- tire continent to the South Sea, or Pacific on the West with the islands thereto ] adjoining Along with this comfort 1 able acquisition, Connecticut was assured | by her charter Of government by rep resentation. a principle to which she had | adhered from the very earliest New Hav- ell colony days
 | Connecticut chung tenaciously to her holdings until September 14. '17s6. when l she ceded all her lands in the West to l the United States, reserciug for herself | a tract of land embracing northeastern | Ohio. This was the Connecticut West ern Reserve.
 l Tn 17s2 the state disposed of 500.O0S acres of the land to citizens of ConHecti- cut whose homes had been burned by the l British during the Revoluj ionary war. ! This tract was at the westerly end Of the reserve became known as the Fire ! Lands" Arrangements were made m ! l7s5 by the Connecticut Legislature for
 the sale of S.e00.0oe acres at not less
 than Sl GOO and the property was sold | in that year to thirty-five parties for S1.2 200 00O. the purchasers forming The Connecticut Land Company.
 one of the seven directors elected by the Connecticut Land Company was Cen
 eral Moses Cleveland Of Canterbury. Up-
 on him was placed the responsibility of heading a surveying party as superintend-
 ent.
 Serving as officers of the surveying party with Cleveland were Augustus { Porter. principal surveyor and deputy J superintendent; Seth Pesse. mathema- tician and surveyor: Amos SpaffoTd John Milton Holley Richard M Sioddard
 Moses Warren. Jr., surveyors; Joshua Stow. eonmissary; Theodore shepherd physici-7
 Tine assembling point for ihe party
 wss Schenectady. The time was ihs carly part Of June. l796. After an ardu. GUS journey along the water route of ths
 state to Lake Ontario and around Nag ara To Buffalo the -arty reached Buffalo
 Creek June r. Here there was a paus; of a few days for a council with Seneca and Mohawk Indians who appeared be-
 for General Cleveland with land claim
 The journal of Seth Pease states that thi
 western Indians accepted ''500 pounds
 New York currency in goods" and tha
 the eastern Indians received two bee cattle and one hundred gallons of Whis
 key"
 June 27, the party proceeded on it's wa!
 west The Reserve was reached Monday July i. l7s6. Conneaut now a city oi Lake Erie about seventy miles east O
 Cleveland, was the first stopping place Here the band Of sturdy New Englan, patriots celebrated the twentieth ami
 versary of the nations birth and thi
 stepping place Was also the site Of an
 other council with the Indians. From Coaneaut. General Clevelan' with a small party proceeded vesteri ! along the shore in a bsteau to the, mout
 of the Cuyahoca river. IL is Believe r that Job r. Stiles. his wife Tab.th . Cumi Stiles accompanied the superintend 1 ent on this trip. General Cleveland wa favorably impressed with the spot as of 3 fering advantages for the capital town . which was 10 be laid out for the lam
 company and his decision in favor of th vuyahog4 Followed. Although al first tn