Connecticut Land Company
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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, part of the Old Northwest Territory. The Western Reserve is located in Northeast Ohio with its hub being Cleveland. The original proprieters, 48 of the wealthiest and most prominent men in Connecticut, included Oliver Phelps, 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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