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Moses Cleaveland Signed Loan Office Document

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Moses Cleaveland Signed Loan Office Document
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MOSES CLEAVELAND (1754 – 1806). Brigadier general in the Connecticut Militia during the American Revolution. Pioneer settler. In 1796, he was commissioned General Agent and Superintendent to lead the first exploring party into Connecticut's western reserve lands in northeast Ohio. His party of fifty endured a long and torturous trek westward. Once arrived, it was Moses Cleaveland's job to negotiate with the Indians, convincing them to give up their land claims. The negotiations and surveys took about three months. the surveyors, who thought very highly of their leader, named the site of the future city ""Cleaveland"". Document signed. 1 page. 8” x 12 3/4”. Partly-printed document in which Cleaveland acknowledges the receipt of three thousand three hundred dollars “ … it being for the Interest arisen on four Continental Certificates, in favour of Mr John Johnson …” A scarce autograph. Excellent.