just as Virginia had reserved title to land in the Scioto region. The sale of these lands was begun. as soon as they could be surveyed; but the uncertain situation of affairs in Ohio caused the sale

to lag. In 1792 the Connecticut government set aside half a million of acres for the benefit of those citizens of Connecticut whose property had been injured by the British troops. These acres lay in the western part of the Reserve, and were known as the "Firelands" or "Sufferers' Lands."

But the northern as well as the southern parts of the State were compelled to await the issue of the Indian struggle. When Wayne had crushed the tribes at Maumee the towns that lay on paper began to seem attainable in fact. While the tribes were gathering for the treaty the Connecticut Legislature passed an act authorizing a committee to dispose of the remaining land, and within a few months the fifty-six members of the Connecticut Land Company had bought from the State her title to all of the remaining lands, amounting to something over a million acres. The following summer surveyors were at work notching the trees in the wilderness south of Lake Erie, and before winter set in all the land east of the Cuyahoga had been divided into townships five miles square.

Settlers came on the heels of the surveyors. A sprinkling of cabins appeared at the mouth of Conneaut Creek, where the surveyors had landed on the Fourth of July. It was upon this creek that one of the smaller northern tribes had for some years had an encampment; and there is a tradition

that a captive white man who had been brought there the year before was saved from the stake by the intervention of a second Pocahontas, whose name has not been given to History, but to whom Romance nevertheless owes a debt of gratitude.

Pushing along the coast from Conneaut the surveyors came to the fine harbor at the mouth of the Cuyahoga. The Cuyahoga had long been an Indian haunt and was familiar to the French and

English traders. Over thirty years before the French had built a trading house at the mouth of Tinker's Creek. Among the traders was Joseph Du Shattar, who built a post nine miles up the river, and lived there with his family about him. In June, 1786, a band of the persecuted Moravian Indians, led by Zeisberger and Heckewelder, reached the river and planted the village of Pilgerruh, or " Pilgrims Rest," near a town of the Ottawas. A chapel was reared and dedicated; but in the following year the settlement was broken up, and afterwards, under the dictation of the northern chiefs, established in Canada. After many further hardships the "praying Indians praying Indians" and their brave white leaders were at length permitted to return, as they had long dreamed of returning, to the Muskingum lands from which tyranny and massacre had driven them. Zeisberger, then close upon his eightieth year, laid out upon the land given by

the Government, the town of Goschen, and there gathered his "children" into a chapel, which was dedicated on Christmas Day, 1798. Heckewelder, returning to the site of Gnadenhütten, gathered the bones of the murdered braves, and buried them at a spot now marked by a monument.

The party of surveyors that climbed the oakgrown slope at the mouth of the Cuyahoga on the twenty-second of July, 1796, was headed by the agent of the Connecticut Land Company, General Moses Cleveland. The beautiful city which was now to rise on this wooded shore received the name of this leader, whose stature and complexion were so like those of an Indian that he received the nickname of " Paqua," after the chief of the Conneaut tribe.

A storehouse and a cabin for the surveyors were at once built near a spring, and the marking out of the new city had been finished by the fall, though not without some grumbling among the subordinate surveyors, and complaint among the stockholders at what they deemed the slow progress of the work. Job Stiles and his wife and Edward Paine passed the winter on the lonely coast.

During the following year the new city on the lake began to acquire permanent inhabitants. James Kingsbury is spoken of as "the first adventurer on his own account" who came to "New

Connecticut." A few years later Kingsbury was made a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He remained to the last one of the most interesting figures in the life of the Lake settlements. Another interesting figure was that of Major Lorenzo Carter, a daring man, quick and accurate with the musket, and gifted in the arts that equip the pioneer. At his cabin on the hill the Indians often gathered. One day the red men came in a great rage because Carter had sold them whiskey so weakened with water as to have lost its wickedness. Carter acting upon the knowledge that the Indians were already maddened with the liquor, greeted the delegation with a poker and so masterfully met the attack that his popularity among these dusky neighbors soon developed into something like awe.

It was at Carter's cabin that the settlers held their first ball, and it is safe to say that the "scamper down" upon the puncheon floor of that homely retreat has not been excelled in animation, though it may have been in elegance, by the later festivities of the town. Unhappily sterner things occupied the thoughts of the settlers for a long time after the colony was founded. Fever and ague seized upon nearly every inhabitant during the second summer, and the hand grist-mill in the corner of the settler's cabin stood idle not only for need of an arm to work it, but for need of the wherewithal