520.
Original Proposal for the Settlement of Western Reserve Lands.

Proposal for the settlement of Western Reserve Lands and the Ohio Territory April 18, 1798. Framed six pages front and back, including envelope.

The Connecticut Land Company purchased the State of Connecticut's Western Reserve in Northeast Ohio in 1795. The Company surveyed the 3 million acre tract in 1796 and 1797. Sales of five-mile square tracts, entire townships, began in early 1798. The group of investors who bought the township later named Canfield prepared and signed this "Constitution" in April of 1798 in the State of Connecticut, before any of them had seen the land which they had purchased in what was then the Western part of the United States.

This document provides a plan for the early settlement of the Township. Provisions are set forth to send workmen to the Ohio Township to build log houses on the proprietor's land. Provision is made for the subdivision of the Township and the subsequent sale of parcels. Recording of deeds is to be made in Connecticut as there were no courthouses in Northeast Ohio in 1798.

An unusual feature is the placing of the proprietor's signatures to the document on the "sleeve" in which the document was stored. The reverse of the "sleeve" is docketed with the word "Constitution", certainly an echo of the U.S. Constitution ratified 11 years prior to the signing of this one.

The document names this township "Campfield". This was the name given the area during the Connecticut Land Company's surveying, as the surveying crew, headed by Moses Cleveland, used this land as its main camp. The name was later changed to the present name of Canfield in honor of two of the original proprietors whose signatures appear on the document.

Eighteenth-Century plans for the settlement of western lands of the newly formed United States are quite rare. This lengthy one is therefore of considerable importance to the history of the early settlement of Northeast Ohio. The document has not been published at the date of this writing.

1798

1000/2000     SOLD: $575.00

521.
Plat Book of Akron, Ohio and Vicinity.

Includes Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls & Kenmore.

G.M. Hopkins Co. Philadelphia 1921

Folio

75/150     SOLD: $51.75

522.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Queens County. Long Island New York. Containing Portraits & Biographical Sketches.

Full Title: Portrait and Biographical Record of Queens County. Long Island New York. Owners signature. Professionally rebound in full brown buckram.

Chapman Publishing New York 1896 First Edition

Stout quarto

75/150     SOLD: $46.00

523.
The Centenial Atlas of Athens County, Ohio.

Brown Cloth with gilt lettering.

Ohio University Press Athens, Ohio 1979

Quarto

50/100     

524. Abbott, Gemming & Fiske.
Three Books on New England.

Abbott, Katharine M. OLD PATHS AND LEGENDS OF NEW ENGLAND. New York: 1904.
Gemming, Elizabeth. HUCKLEBERRY HILL: CHILD LIFE IN OLD NEW ENGLAND. New York: 1968. Illustrated.
Fiske, John. THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND or THE PURITAN THEOCRACY IN ITS RELATOINS TO CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. Boston: 1930.

30/60     SOLD: $40.25

525. Aldridge, Corliss & Rich.
Three Books on Maine.

Aldridge, Richard. MAINE LIVES: 101 CONTEMPORARY POEMS ABOUT MAINE. Philadelphia: 1970. First Edition. Photographer: Tom Jones. Dustjacket.
Corliss, Augustus W. OLD TIMES: North Yarmouth, Maine. 1877-1884. Somersworth: 1977. Dustjacket.
Rich, Louise Dickinson. WE TOOK TO THE WOODS. Philadelphia: 1942. 20 illustrations from photographs. Dustjacket.

30/60     SOLD: $23.00

526. American Guide Series & Bader-Stein.
Two Books on Wisconsin.

Bader-Stein, Lois Roepke. KENOSHA 1835-1983: A Pictorial History.
American Guide Series. WISCONSIN: A GUIDE TO THE BADGER STATE. New York: 1941. Second Edition.

30/60     SOLD: $11.50

527. Arr & Earle.
Two Books on Old New England.

Arr, E.H. (Ellen H. Rollins). NEW ENGLAND BYGONES. Philadelphia: 1883. Finely engraved illustrations. Celtic design to cover and spine, gilt lettering.
Earle, Alice Morse. CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND. New York: 1894.

30/60     SOLD: $23.00

528. Babst & Lydens.
Two Books on Michigan.

Babst, Earl D. and Lewis G. Vander Velde, editors. MICHIGAN AND THE CLEVELAND ERA: Sketches of University of Michigan staff members and alumni who served the Cleveland Administrations 1885-89, 1893-97. Ann Arbor: 1948.
Lydens, Z.Z. THE STORY OF GRAND RAPIDS. Grand Rapids: 1966. Second Edition. Dustjacket.

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529. Baker & Finley.
Two Yearbooks

Baker, Harold. AURORA 1931. Tiffin, OH: 1930. Published by the Junior Class of Heidelberg College. Photographs throughout.
Finley, Lois E. MOSAIC OF MEMORIES; FIFTY YEARS, 1926-1976, GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, AKRON, OHIO. Akron, OH: 1976. Photographs of class officers from 1926-1976 with lists of students who participated in various events.

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