New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . of Marietta find expression, first in MuskingumAcademy and then in due time in Marietta College,which for over seventy-five years has been sendingforth students imbued with the New England spirit,but Ohio University at Athens owes its beginningto influences from Rufus Putnam, who led the groupthat in January, 1795, went up the Hocking River incanoes and laid out two townships for the support ofa university. Simon-pure New Englandism made an equallynoticeable impression upon another section of Ohio,when the region str
New England in the life of the world; a record of adventure and achievement . of Marietta find expression, first in MuskingumAcademy and then in due time in Marietta College,which for over seventy-five years has been sendingforth students imbued with the New England spirit,but Ohio University at Athens owes its beginningto influences from Rufus Putnam, who led the groupthat in January, 1795, went up the Hocking River incanoes and laid out two townships for the support ofa university. Simon-pure New Englandism made an equallynoticeable impression upon another section of Ohio,when the region stretching southward from LakeErie and westward from the Pennsylvania line beganto be explored. This territory, comprising aboutone-eighth of the whole area of Ohio, has been knownsince 1787 as the Western Reserve. When Connecti-cut along with the older states at the close of theRevolution ceded its western holdings to the UnitedStates government, Connecticut explicitly reservedthis corner of Ohio. The fertility of the soil andsimilarity of the scenery to familiar New England. MANASSEH CUTLERBorn in Killingly, Ct., May 13, 1742 J PEEACHEE-STATESMAN of the highest type, he helped?^J- fashion tJie Northivest Ordinance and to give character toNew Englands first impact upon Ohio. NEW ENGLAND AND OHIO 49 landscapes doubtless had something to do with thepurpose to reserve this particular tract. After Connecticuts somewhat disastrous experi-ence in trying to establish herself in the WyomingValley in Pennsylvania, her success in impregnatingthe Western Reserve with her spirit and institutionswas all the more noteworthy. The Connecticut LandCompany was formed in 1795, embracing at the startforty-eight purchasers of lands in the New Con-necticut. This number in time was increased toseveral hundred and included some of Connecticutsstrongest citizens financially and them was General Moses Cleaveland. He wasborn in Canterbury, Windham County, Ct,, in 1754,was an officer in
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