A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . )ro])riet()rs shall do the first, second, and thirdyears the settling duties as required by our i)atent this day exe-cuted. Thus, for example, it was determiTicd that Seth Pease andten others were to do said settling duties in 1797, Moses Warrenand seventeen others in 1798, and Amos Spafford and eleven othersin 1799. About the middle of October, as already stated, tlie sur-veyors set out for their homes in the East, leaving in the embryoCleveland but three white persons, Mr. and Mrs. Stiles and Josep
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . )ro])riet()rs shall do the first, second, and thirdyears the settling duties as required by our i)atent this day exe-cuted. Thus, for example, it was determiTicd that Seth Pease andten others were to do said settling duties in 1797, Moses Warrenand seventeen others in 1798, and Amos Spafford and eleven othersin 1799. About the middle of October, as already stated, tlie sur-veyors set out for their homes in the East, leaving in the embryoCleveland but three white persons, Mr. and Mrs. Stiles and Joseph 1796] EXIT MOSES CLEAVELAND 21) Laiulon. Landon soon (lisappoarod and his place seems to have been taken by Edward Paine who began to trade with the Indians (Chippewas, Ottawas, etc.) who made their winter eamps upon the west side of the river and trapped and hunted upon both sides. This Edward Paine subsequently became the founder of Paines- ville, Ohio, and is generally spoken of as General Paine. In camp, at the foot of the bhiff that winter were some Seneca Indians, • MASSACHUSETTS. Towxsmi Mm- ok Windham County. Connecticut whose chief, Old Seneca, was friendly to the whites. TheseIndians supplied their white neighbors in the cabin on the hill withgame, and showed their friendship in various wa^-s. Exit , Cleaveland It is not known that General Cleaveland ever revisited tiie Re-serve, but he wrote: While I was in New Connecticut I laid outa town on the bank of Lake Erie, which was called by my name.* * General Cleavelaml generally (bnt not always) spelled his name witli an ain the first syllable, and for more than thirty years the name of the town that he 30 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS |Ch<ip. II and I believe the child is now bom tliat may live to see that placeas large as Old Windham. This AVindham is the southwest townof Windham County, the northeast county of Connecticut. The nexttown eastward is Scotland which separates it from Town was
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