A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . re of the company stock was ordered and SethPease, Amos Spafford, Daniel Ilolbrook, and Moses Warren, Jr., wereconstituted a committee on partition. Another committee was ap-pointed to make inquiry into the conduct of the directors; in February,this committee made a i-eport exonerating the directors in all oflBcial record does not show why General Cleaveland was not 32 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIKONS [Chap. II again appointed as superintendent, Init reading between the linesof these pi-occedi
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . re of the company stock was ordered and SethPease, Amos Spafford, Daniel Ilolbrook, and Moses Warren, Jr., wereconstituted a committee on partition. Another committee was ap-pointed to make inquiry into the conduct of the directors; in February,this committee made a i-eport exonerating the directors in all oflBcial record does not show why General Cleaveland was not 32 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIKONS [Chap. II again appointed as superintendent, Init reading between the linesof these pi-occedings, it seems to be clear that the stocliholders werein no amiable mood and far from being satisfied with what hadbeen done. In the spring, the surveyors returned to the Rev. Seth Hart was now the superintendent and Seth Peasethe principal surveyor. With them were several who had gone outthe year before, among them Amos Spafford, Richard ^I. Stoddard,Moses Warren, Tlieodore Shepard, Joseph Tinker, and Joseph Lan-don. The party assembled at Schenectady, with ]Mr. Pease in charge. of the funds and details of outfitting, and assisted by ThomasMather of Albany. Under date of the fourteentli of April, 1797,Pease wrote in his journal: Spent the week thus far in gettingnecessary supplies. The want of Icady casli subjects me to con-siderable inconvenience, ^ir. ^Mather ))urchascs the greater parton his own cretlit; and takes my order on ]\Ir. Ephraim Root, treas-urer. On tlie twentieth of April, six boats moved np tlie were similar to those used the year before. In -Vugust, Atwater, wlio had joined the party at Schenectady, made astatement relating to the surveys of 1797, in wliicli lie says: We ascended llie Mobawk rivci- tbiougb the old locks at LittleFalls, up to the carrying place at Rome. The canal there was inprogress, but not completed. The boats and stores were got acrossinto Wood creek. Down that narrow, crooked stream, we got alongsomewhat ea
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