In 1784 Connecticut laid claim to a territory stretching from Pennsylvania's western border 120 miles along Lake Erie. In 1786 Congress took steps to legitimate this claim, and explicitly recognized it in 1800. The Peopling of New Connecticut presents primary documents that define Connecticut's complex relationship with this territory, known then as the Western Reserve. Using excerpts from previously published official records, diaries, newspapers, periodical journals, pamphlets, and the occasional book that illustrates the process whereby Connecticut transplanted some of its people to a distant, western land, this Acorn Club publication illuminates not only the experience of the emigrants as they journeyed to Ohio and settled in the Western Reserve but also the effect that the emigrants' departure had on the society they left behind. The volume comes with an introduction and commentary about the significance of these republished materials. The Peopling of New Connecticut is a vital, enlightening record of this special chapter in Connecticut's history and provides unique insight into the early westward movement after the Revolutionary War.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Connecticut Emigration 1750-1830
A PEOPLE IN MOTION
#1 Late eighteenth-century newspaper observations about emigration
"Civis," from the Litchfield Monitor, September 18, 1793
"Communication," in Connecticut Journal, March 19, 1795
"Whitestown, N.Y.," in Norwich Packet, June 5, 1795
#2 James Kirke Paulding, Letters from the South…(1817)
WELLSPRINGS OF CONNECTICUT EMIGRATION
#3 "Observer" from Connecticut Courant in New England Palladium, January 3, 1817
#4 "To James Hillhouse," in Hartford Times, March 25, 1817
#5 "Causes of Emigration," Boston Independent Chronicle and Patriot, September 13, 1817
#6 A.B. Johnson, "Thoughts on Population," New-York Literary Journal, September 15, 1820
#7 Samuel Goodrich, Peter Parley's Own Story (1864)
THE PROCESS OF TRANSPLANTING NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY
Planning a new settlement
Public authorization and its consequences:
#8 "The Querist, III," Connecticut Courant, March 23, 1795
#9 Resolutions of the General Assembly for selling the western lands, May 30, 1795
#10"Plain Man," in Connecticut Courant, March 31, 1797
Connecticut Land Co
#11 Letter from a Gentleman…in New Connecticut, July 5, in Connecticut Courant, August 22, 1796
#12 Milton Holley's Journal about running the line between Pennsylvania and the Western Reserve, July 7-23, 1796
#13 Seth Pease, Journal of Seth Pease 1797
Promotional Descriptions of the Land
#14 Commodifying Land
Uriel Holmes in Carlisle [Pa] Gazette, March 1798, Lands of New-Connecticut [Evans #33565]
#15 Letter from a gentleman in Ohio, October 13, 1804 in Connecticut Courant, January 2, 1805
#16 James Tongue, A Letter…giving a short Account of the Country (1807)
#17 "New Connecticut," in Connecticut Herald, December 5, 1815 reprinted in the Times, April 8,1817
The Experience of Removal
#18 Joseph Badger, Diary (1802)
#19Margaret Dwight, A Journey to Ohio (1810)
#20 Joel Baker, A Sermon occasioned by the Expected Removal of a number of Families (1811)
CONSEQUENCES OF EMIGRATION
Demographic impact
#21 Analysis of Census of 1800 in Salem Register, October 24, 1803
#22 John Melish, Travels through the United States (1812), II, 294-96
Economic impact
#23 "Calculator" in Albany Gazette, September 30, 1803
#24 John L. Tomlinson, "Discourse on Agriculture," Connecticut Journal, March 24, 1818
Social and Political impact
#25 The Wasp July 17, 1802
#26 "To the Republicans," in Bridgeport Herald, April 3, 1816
#27 Oliver Wolcott, Speech to the Legislature, in Connecticut Courant, May 20, 1817
RESPONSES
Domestic remedies
#28 David Humphreys, A Discourse on the Agriculture of the State of Connecticut (1816)
#29 Oliver Wolcott, Jr., "Taxation", in Republican Farmer, Bridgeport, June 16, 1819
Anti-emigration sentiment
#30 "The Brief Remarker," in Connecticut Courant, January 14, 1817
#31 "A Connecticut Farmer," in Connecticut Journal, July 29, 1817
#32 William H. Hand, "'Tother Side of Ohio (1818)
#33 "Emigration Hard Times," in Connecticut Mirror, July 26, 1819
Response to Anti-immigration Sentiment
Political Responses
#34 "Horrors of a Revolution," in The Times, April 8,1817
#35 "Emigration" in New-York Columbian, October 13, 1819
Attempts to transmit Connecticut's Culture
#36 Legislative acts and resolutions pertaining to Western Missions (1792, 1798, 1802)
#37 Thomas Robbins, Diary (1804)
#38 Timothy Dwight et al., An Address to the Emigrants from Connecticut (1817)
MEASURES OF SUCCESS AND FAILURE
#39 John Melish, Travels through the United States (1812), II, 257-297 passim
#40 John F. Schermerhorn & Samuel J. Mills, A Correct View (1814)
#41 "Revival of Religion in Trumbull Co," in Christian Watchman, Nov. 11, 1820
#42 Zerah Hawley, Journal of a Tour (1822)
#43 D. Griffiths, Two Years' Residence in Ohio (1835)
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