Connecticut Western Reserve

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The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Connecticut Colony and later state of Connecticut in what is now mostly Northeast Ohio. The Western Reserve had been granted to Connecticut under the terms of its colonial charter by Charles II of England. The county seat of the Western Reserve was Warren, Ohio. Connecticut relinquished its claim to some of its western lands to the United States in 1786 following the American Revolutionary War and preceding the 1787 establishment of the Northwest Territory. Despite ceding sovereignty to the United States, Connecticut retained ownership of the eastern portion of its cession, south of Lake Erie. It sold much of the Western Reserve to a group of speculators who operated as the Connecticut Land Company; they sold it in portions for development by new settlers. Connecticut ultimately relinquished its claims to the territory in 1800, and it became part of the Northwest Territory. The Western Reserve name is preserved in numerous...

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