Conneaut City

Conneaut City

GOULD - An area situated on the DENMARK-PIERPONT TOWNSHIP border. At one time it was "a stop-over-place" on the "old" SALT ROAD, about hal-way between WEST WILLIAMSFIELD and CONNEAUT on the present day

Stanhope-Kelloggsville Road

ANDOVER TWP - POLLY CARPENTER and ARTEMUS SMITH ASHTABULA TWP - CATHERINE BRADDOCK and BEVERLY STAR COLEBROOK TWP - CLEORA PHILLIPS and ASAHAEL CANFIELD CONNEAUT TWP - ANNA MONTGOMERY and AARON WRIGHT DORSET TWP - "Mister GRIFFIN of Morgan and the Widow of ABLTHBAZSUTLIERF," HARPERSFIELD TWP - Miss ROBINSON and WILLIAM HARPER, 1808 HARTSGROVE TWP : ANN BURGESS and FRED ALDERMAN, 1828 JEFFERSON TWP - NANCY FRITHY and JONATHAN WARNER, 1807 LENOX TWP - SALLIE RANDALL and NICHOLAS MILLER, 1810 MONROE TWP - MARIA HARRINGTON and GEORGE FERGUSON MOBRGABNSINBC-SLYXDLA.P. GELLETT and J. B.SBATTEDL 1803 NEW LYME TWP - SUSAN PECK and CALVIN KNOWLTON - PLYMOUTH TWP - JULIA HUBBARD and WALKER RICHMOND

CONNEAUT TWP - A child born to JAMES KINGSBURY. The: second birth, and really the first among the settlers, was AMELIA, dau of SAMUEL BEMUS.

Michael Webster

FOBES LENOX TWP. - 1810,.a dau of LISLE: ASQUE MONROE TWP - JOSEPH, Son O FIMES MES DANIEL TALBOTT MORGAN TWP. - '5 July 1803, .R.: HR. STEPHENS NEW LYME TWP - 1811, son of JOSEPH & ELIZABETH MILLER

Windsor Twp - Eli Porter, 1801

We have noted the arrival of the T Son EY PARTY, and their rr out" of the RANGES and TOWNSHIPS ... the Surveyor's "job" did not end TA (2 of' the INDIVIDUAL TOWNSHIPS had to be suryuysH TA CORNO CSHESO

The LAND ORDINANCES of 1785 and 1787 . . . and The Surveyor General of The UNITEDISTATESIC ICS T specitacd that the land would be plated in SIX MILE SQUARE TOWNSHIPS . . . that EACH TOWNSHIP would be broken down into 36 ONE MILE SQUARE SECTIONS . . . the TOWNSHIP SECTIONS would all be given numbers . . . the system of numbering the individual sections was even "planned" for the men

Quarter- Quartersection Section

; platted the RANGES. and TOWNSHIPS upon The WESTERN RESERVE Land plated Bilin FIVE. MILE SQUARE TOWNSHIPS »and-RANGES. 4... .650.much..for.the pom of "e orders of The Surveyor General. The same thing held | true when the Townships that make up ASHTABULA COUNTY, OHIO, vc broken down! £ . .qsDelsethpatternswa&B. to, be

A Chart Of The Rivers, Creeks, And Streams Has Been

THE ORIGINAL SURVEY OF THE RANGES AND TOWNSHIPS . . . A CHART OF THE RIVERS, CREEKS, AND STREAMS HAS BEEN PLACED UPON THE PLATTED RANGES AND TOWNSHIPS . . .

You Will Note That The Grand River Provided Water To Of The Rivers And The Creeks

When one of the "lots" in the ASHTABULA COUNTY Townships Was sold*/ .4 a "Tittle ToaThe Land! was given theémo aewe can trace each piece of property sold within the WESTERN RESERVE . . .. and ASHTABULA COUNTY'. . . through extant=records= - Each*'of-these- '"Titleé/Searchesdcanebe followed by ane*Abstractveonf Title" 3. =gach\ AbDStracti

"The State of CONNECTICUT claimed title of the land lying between the forty-first parallel and the parallel of forty-two degrees, two minutes north, and extending from the Western boundary of the State of PENNSYLVANIA, One Hundred and Twenty Mawes ERG west, (cmo Ans called the CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE) by virtue of the grants by JAMES I, King of England, to the PLYMOUTH COMPANY, (November 1630); by the PLYMOUTH COMPANY to the EARL OF WARWICK, (1630); and by the EARL OF ee een VISCOUNT SAY AND SEAL and others, called the Pattent of CONNECTICUT, (March 19, 1631); confirmed by CHARLES II, King of England (April 25, 1662)."

in pursuance óf an Act of Congress by Pattent of the UNITED STATES, executed March 2, 1801, by JOHN ADAMS, President of the UNITED STATES, to the Governor for the time being of the State of CONNECTICUT, for the benefit of said State and its grantee confirming in them the title to the soil of the said CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE; vs Pattent is on record in the Office of the: Secretary of the State of CONNECTICUT, at HARTFORD : "State Records for Deeds, Patent of land, etc." Number

"The State of CONNECTICUT sold 3,000,000 acres off the easterly end of the CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE to JOSEPH HOWLAND and 47 others for $1,200,000.00 on at HARTFORD. "State Records for Deeds, Pattent of Land, etc." Number 5 Pages 1 to 69 inclusive. Copies thereof are recorded in TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIO, in Western Reserve Draft Book, Pages 5 to 73 inclusive."

proprietors arranged in alphabetical order, and when there shall be several persons who shall be entitled to one township only, the number shall be drawn against tha Pastner ss mamesthst.shall-stand first in alphabetical order."

"JOSEPH HOWLAND and his associates as members of the CONNECTICUT LAND COMPANY, joined in a deed of trust to JOHN CALDWELL, JOHN MORGAN, and JONATHAN BRACE, the survivor and survivors of them, and the heirs of the survivor, conveying to the said trustees the whole of the 231903, 0 0 acres "or land deeded in Entry Number office of the Secretary of the State of CONNECTICUT, at HARTFORD, "State Records for Deeds, Pattents of Land, ete." Number 5 Page 9% A copy thereof is.on recordjin TRUMBULL COUNTY» In een Reserve Draft Book