Quiz Question 2013-1

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Billy:
Where the sources you looked at were wrong is because of the following facts:
1. The men that were with Cleveland did the survey then left. None of them stayed behind, or purchased any land.
2. Several of the men that came with Young actually purchased land from Young and as a condition set down by the Connecticut Land Company cleared land, built cabins, and planted crops and lived here.
Simply surveying land does not constitute settlement.
Among the men that came with Young and settled here were Shehy, Powers, Wolcott. Hillman met Young here and settled down here at this same time period, and by the time that Cleveland started to be actually settled, there were already 10 families perminently living here.

[Towntalk]

Third Source:

See also – A 20^th Century History of Trumbull County Ohio – Harriet Taylor Upton – Vol. 1 pgs. 49 - 50

At the time, there was no Mahoning County and Youngstown was in Trumbull County.

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From J.G. Butler book

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Ans. Youngstown


Source: History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley – Vol 1 – J. G. Butler pg. 89


Cf – 20^th Century History of  Youngstown and Mahoning County by Gen. Thomas Sanderson - pg. 97

[Billy Mumphrey]

Well, then every googled website is wrong.Please cite sources.

[Towntalk]

Absolutely wrong! 

[Billy Mumphrey]

The Connecticut Land Company purchased the remaining lands in the Western Reserve in 1795. This was a risky proposition because the heavily forested area was difficult to develop. Cleveland, Ohio, the Reserve's first permanent settlement, was established in 1796.

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What was the first permanent settlement in the Western Reserve?