The Pragmatic Hypothesis

Authors

• William C. Barrow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1992

Abstract

One of the enduring minor mysteries of the Connecticut Western Reserve is why it was surveyed into town ships of twenty-five square miles instead of the thirty-six-square-mile townships employed nearly everywhere else in post-colonial America. The Connecticut Land Company sent its first surveying parties to the Reserve in 1795, a decade after the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established the thirty-six-section township for federal surveys, so why did Moses Cleaveland's party create townships that are only five miles square?

Publication Title

Western Reserve Studies Symposium

Volume

7

Rights

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Recommended Citation

Barrow, William C., "The Pragmatic Hypothesis" (1992). Western Reserve Studies Symposium. 283.
https://commons.case.edu/wrs-symposium/283