Excerpt from Bench and Bar of Ohio, Vol. 2: A Compendium of History and Biography, Illustrated With Steel-Plate and Half-Tone Engravings

One of the most accurate and painstaking historians of the Western Reserve has said SO little was known at this time, of the respective powers of the State and of the United States, under the Constitution of 1787, -that many of the parties thought the Land Company had received political authority and could found here a new State. They imagined themselves, like William Penn, to be proprietors, coupled with the rights of self~government. He further says: Both parties to the transaction imagined that the deed of Connecticut conveyed powers of civil government to the company, and that the grantees might organize a new State.

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