"Western Reserve" redirects here. For other uses, see Western Reserve (disambiguation).
Connecticut's land claims in the Western United States
The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms of its charter by King Charles II.[1]
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 this "Western Reserve" to a group of speculators who operated as the Connecticut Land Company; they sold it in portions for development by new settlers.[2] The phrase Western Reserve is preserved in numerous institutional names in Ohio, such as Western Reserve Academy, Case Western Reserve University, and Western Reserve Hospital.
In the 19th century, the Western Reserve "was probably the most intensely antislavery section of the country".[3] John Brown Jr. called it, in 1859, "the New England of the West".[4]
^Western Reserve. Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (2020-10-05). Retrieved on 2020-10-05.
^Cite error: The named reference officialoh was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (1995). "'A Volcano Beneath a Mountain of Snow': John Brown and the Problem of Interpretation". In Finkleman, Paul (ed.). His Soul Goes Marching On. Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia. pp. 9–38, at p. 19. ISBN 0813915368.
^"'Felon Feast' at Oberlin". Cleveland Daily Leader (Cleveland, Ohio). 13 Jan 1859. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.
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