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. …

Feb 27, 2025 · Toward the end of the Revolutionary War, Connecticut set aside land at the west end of the Western Reserve to compensate those who had suffered from British raids; it …

A map of the United States showing land claims and cessions from 1782 to 1802. The state cessions are the areas of the United States that the separate states ceded to the federal …

Dec 14, 2021 · Connecticut was one of several states that had land claims in the Ohio country going back to the colonial period. Connecticut gave up most of its claims to the federal …

Connecticut put forth a claim to a swath of land from its western boundary to the Mississippi River. A claim to a portion of Pennsylvania (not shown on the map) was asserted only half-heartedly …

Dec 12, 2022 · This hotly contested position helped them retain Connecticut’s original lands as far west as the New York border, absorb the New Haven Colony (finalized in 1665), and later lay …

Jul 7, 2020 · The new federal government stepped in to settle these disputes, and on September 13, 1786, Connecticut relinquished its claims except for a 120-mile long strip along Lake Erie, …

In the 17th century, New York made claims lying far east of the present border – as far as the Connecticut River, while Connecticut laid claim to all the land west of her as far as the “South …

Jul 1, 2005 · The Connecticut Western Reserve was an area in the Northwest Territory owned, sold and distributed by the State of Connecticut in the years after the American Revolution. …

Claim: Connecticut's claim, known as the "Western Reserve," included land in present-day Ohio. Background: This strip of land was part of its colonial charter, which extended "from sea to …