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HISTORY
OF
LORAIN COUNTY
OHIO
With
Illustrations & Biographical Sketches
of
Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers.
Publ. Philadelphia:
by Williams Brothers
1879
CHAPTER II.
THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN
RESERVE.
Page 10
The Western Reserve of
Connecticut lies between the parallels of 41°
and 42° 2' of
north latitude, commencing with the western boundary
line of Pennsylvania, and extending thence one
hundred and twenty miles westward. The entire
tract embraces an area of seven thousand four
hundred and forty square miles, nearly one-third of
which is water. If the whole were land, there
would be four million seven hundred and sixty-one
thousand six hundred acres. It is composed of
the counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull, Portage,
Geauga, Lake, Cuyahoga, Medina, Lorain, Huron, Erie,
Summit (except the townships of Franklin and Green),
the two northern tiers of townships is Mahoning, the
townships of Sullivan, Troy, and Ruggles, in
Ashland, and several islands lying north of
Sandusky, including Kelly's Put-in-Bay. This
is the land portion of the Reserve. The
portion consisting of water lies between the
southern shore of Lake Erie and the forty-second
degree of north latitude, and is bounded on the east
and west by the same parallels of longitude that
form the east and west boundaries of the land
portion.
There have been numerous claimants to the soil of the
Reserve. In addition to the red man's title,
France, England, the United States, Virginia,
Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut have all,
at one time or another, asserted ownership.
The claim of France arose by reason of its being a
portion of the territory which she possessed by
right of discovery.
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