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The Connecticut Company or Connecticut Land Company (est. 1795) was a post-colonial land speculation company formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the eastern parts of the newly chartered Connecticut Western Reserve of the former "Ohio Country" [1] and a prized-part of the Northwest Territory)—a post ...
New Canaan Land Trust: New Canaan: Fairfield Website: Northern Connecticut Land Trust: Somers: Tolland website: Roxbury Land Trust: Roxbury: Litchfield website, includes Mine Hills Preserve: Waterford Land Trust: Waterford: New London website: Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy: Kent: Litchfield Regional website: Wintonbury Land Trust ...
The Connecticut Land Company was formed in the late eighteenth century to survey and encourage settlement in the Connecticut Western Reserve, part of the Old Northwest Territory in present-day Ohio. Pages in category "Connecticut Land Company"
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 owned this territory until selling it to the Connecticut Land Company in 1795 for $1,200,000, which resold parcels of land to settlers. In 1796, the first settlers, led by Moses Cleaveland , began a community which was to become Cleveland, Ohio ; in a short time, the area became known as "New Connecticut".
The Connecticut Indian Land Claims Settlement was an Indian Land Claims Settlement passed by the United States Congress in 1983. [1] The settlement act ended a lawsuit by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe to recover 800 acres of their 1666 reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut. The state sold this property in 1855 without gaining ratification by the ...
In 2013, the headquarters building was sold to the town of Lexington, [21] with the offices of the Sovereign Grand Commander moving into the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library located next door. In December 2023, Past Sovereign Grand Commander, David Glattly criticized the Supreme Council over internal bickering and financial mismanagement ...
In return, Connecticut would be granted property rights (but not sovereignty) for an equal number of acres within Massachusetts, "as an equivalent to the said colony".: 137–138 Connecticut began to auction off the "Equivalent Lands" in 1716, using most of the proceeds to fund the establishment of Yale College.