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Item Number: DM4097 The Deed: Partially printed deed, dated 28 April 1829, between the State of Connecticut and Hunting Trescott, described as being “of Cleaveland, in the County of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio”, for parts of 10 acre lots number 93, 94 and 95 in range number 12 of Township number 7 called “Cleaveland”. Creases, some staining and a few minor separations at the folds, otherwise very good condition. The deed is signed by Trescott and also, in two places, by Leonard Case, attorney and land agent for Connecticut’s Western Reserve lands. On the reverse, the deed is assigned to Harmon Kingsbury, who has paid the State of Connecticut and will collect the future payments totaling $141.00 plus interest for the lots. Both Kingsbury and Case sign this manuscript assignment, dated, “Cleaveland, July 14, 1830”. The purchaser, Hunting Trescott, son of Jerial Trescott and Lydia Lamb, was born, probably in Vermont, in 1802. He married Cythia Brainerd of Connecticut in 1830. On the preprinted deed, his first name, “Hunting”, is written in above the name “Jerial”, which is crossed out. Size: 8" wide x 12 1/2" high. Background Information: Trescott and his wife stayed in Ohio for a number of years and then moved to Michigan. He and his wife were two of the earliest settlers in Sand Beach Township, Huron County, Michigan. His son Alonzo Trescott was the town’s first teacher. His daughter Lydia married Samuel H. Pangburn. His daughter Maria married Jeremiah Luddington, Jr. and his daughter Minerva married _____ Neal. According to the 1870 Census of Sand Beach Twp., Trescott as a carpenter, and was living with his wife and 2 sons, Alvah J. and Loring J., both born in Ohio. In this census and in the 1860 census, Trescott’s birthplace is shown as “Vermont” and his wife’s as “Connecticut”. Note that his daughter Harriet’s birthplace is given as “Ohio” in the 1860 US Census for Sand Beach Twp, Huron County, Michigan. We can assume, therefore, that the family left Ohio for Michigan sometime after 1850. Leonard Case was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1786, the son of Mesbach Case and Magdalene Eckstein. His parents moved to the Ohio frontier in 1799. Raised in the Western Reserve, Case studied law, was appointed clerk of the Supreme Court for Trumbull county in 1806, and became agent for the Connecticut Land Company in 1827. He served president of the village of Cleveland, county auditor, and as a member of the state legislature. He married Elizabeth Gaylord of Middletown, Connecticut and died in Cleveland in 1864. Case’s family name lives on in “Case Western Reserve University”, formed from the merger of the Case Institute of Technology, endowed by his son Leonard, and the Western Reserve University in 1967.
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