TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - HISTORY: Part 1 (published 1874)
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The following sketch is taken from
 COMBINATION ATLAS MAP OF TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIO
Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations and Surveys
By L. H. Everts
Chicago, Ill.
1874
This Reprint sponsored by the Trumbull County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical
Society  Reprinted 1974, Second Reprint 1996, by The Bookmark, P. O. Box 90,
Knightstown, Ind. 

HISTORY OF TRUMBULL COUNTY, OHIO (page 13)

     "The close of the war of the Revolution found thirteen separate colonies,
independent of each other and of all other powers on earth.  Each colony had
settled under the protection of the King of England, with a charter from that
potentate, defining what government they might set up in their colonies respectively;
also the right to lands therein described.     
     At that early period the geographical knowledge of Europeans concerning
America was very limited.  Patents that had been granted often interfered with each
other, and caused confusion and disputes, the same land or territory being granted to
different colonies.  In this was the territory comprising the eleven Counties of
Northeastern Ohio, containing three million four hundred and fifty-nine thousand 
seven hundred and fifty-three acres, exclusive of the Island of Lake Erie and inclusive
of Sandusky Bay, with much more territory, was claimed to have been granted to New York,
Connecticut, and Virginia.
     By a charter issued in 1662, King Charles II, of England granted to the
colony of Connecticut all lands contained between the forty-first and forty-second
parallels of north latitude, and from Providence plantations on the east to the Pacific
Ocean on the west.  For some years after the United States became an Independent nation,
the interfering claims occasioned much collision of sentiment between the Union
and the State of Connecticut.  The controversy was, after many years, compromised by
the United States relinquishing all their claim, and guaranteeing to the State of
Connecticut the exclusive right of soil in the three million four hundred and fifty-nine
thousand seven hundred and fifty-three acres as before described, exclusive of the waters
of Lake Erie.  This territory was called the Connecticut Western Reserve.
     The United States, by the terms of the compromise, reserved to themselves
the right of jurisdiction, and in due course of time they united the Western Reserve to
the northwestern territory, from which was created the State of Ohio.
    That portion of the State of Ohio lying between the Cuyahoga and the
Pennsylvania State line was ceded by the Indians to the United States, by the treaty of
Ford McIntosh, in 1785.  A new treaty was made with them at Greenville, in 1795, by
which the treaty at Fort McIntosh was again confirmed.
     The County of Trumbull formerly included the whole of the Western
Reserve, and was bounded on the north by Lake Erie, east by Pennsylvania, south by the
parallel of the forty-first degree of north latitude, and west by the Counties of Sandusky
and Seneca.  Its length, east and west, is one hundred and twenty miles, and its
width an average of fifty miles south to north.  It comprises an area of three million
four hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-three acres.  A half-million
acres was stricken off the west part, and donated by the State of Connecticut to certain
sufferers by fire in the Revolutionary War.  These sufferers were the inhabitants of New
London, Connecticut, at the time that Arnold entered the harbor and burned that city.
The lands thus set off comprised the territory of the Counties of Erie and Huron, and
are known to history as the "Fire Lands."    
(End of Part I)


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