CESSIONS OF 1804-1805 



667 



L^T^D CESSIO>^t-^-Coiitiiiiierl. 



Historicfil data and reiiuirlj 



This is tlie same tract ceded by the Delawarea Auj;. 18, 1804, and is simply the 

 ridin(|uishment of a claim held by the Piankishaw to the same region. The 

 boiinilaries of the cession are designated under the Delaware treaty of Aug. 

 18, 1804. 



The Connecticut Western Keserre, or, as it was sometimes called. New Connec- 

 ticut, occupied the region between Lake Erie on the N., Pennsylvania ou the 

 E., 41-^ N. latitude on tlie S., and the present K. line of Seneca and Sandusky 

 counties on the W. Tlio colonial charter of Connecticut embraced all the 

 lands lietweeii 41- and 42-' 2' N. latitude, from the rrovideuce plantations to 

 the Pacilic ocean. After the iudepcudeuce of the V. S., the territorial ((m- 

 tlicts of Connecticut witli New York and Pennsylvania were compromi.sed, 

 and Connecticut, by deed dated Sejit. 14, 17S6, relin(|nished to the U. S. all 

 title and Jurisdiitiou X. of 41 au<l W. of a meridian 120 miles W. of the 

 W. line of Pcnu.syhauia. She reserved, however, to herself the territory N. 

 of 41 aud E. of said meridian to the Pennsylvania line. This reservation 

 couotitnted what liecame known as the Connecticut Western Keserve. All 

 the States having territorial claiuis N\V. of the Ohio having relinquished 

 theui to the IJ. S., except in the case of the Connecticut Keserve, the U. S. 

 proceeded to establish a territorial government over it by the provisions of 

 the ordinance of 1787. Connectiiut. never having rclinciuishcd her claiui to 

 the Western Reserve, resented this extension of.jurisdicfrion as a violation of 

 her rights. This coullict was settled liy comprouii.se in 1800, by which Con- 

 necticut was guaranteed the exclusive right of soil and the V. S. the right of 

 jiolitical jurisdiction. The Indian title to that porticm of the Western Ke- 

 serve l.viug between Pennsylvania ou the E. and the Tuscarawas and Cuya- 

 hoga rivers ou the W. had already been extinguished liy the treat.v of 1795. 



JJesiyuatioti of cession on map 



See 48 Illinois 1. 



Missouri 1, Illinois 1, 

 Wisconsin 2. 



\\ isconsiu 1. 



