This parallel was intended to form the south boundary of the Connecticut Western Reserve in Ohio according to acts of the Colony listed on page 19 preceding. By the King Charles charter of 1662 she was to have a strip from sea to sea bounded on the north by Massachusetts and on the south approximately by the forty-first parallel as suggested in Plate 3. The last grant was confirmed by King Charles II, April 25, 1662, and upon this confirmation chiefly rested Connecticut's title to the Ohio land in question.Ĭonnecticut's southernmost point today is very nearly on the forty-first parallel of latitude north of the equator. The Colony of Connecticut claimed title to the lands between the forty-first parallel and the parallel of forty-two degrees two minutes north of the equator, and extending west from Pennsylvania one hundred and twenty miles, by virtue of grants from King James to the Plymouth Council in November, 1630 from the Plymouth Company to the Earl of Warwick in the same year and from the Earl to Viscount Say and Seal, and others march 19, 1631. Chapter 7 of Ohio Land Subdivisions CHAPTER VII CONNECTICUT WESTERN RESERVE Derivation of Title
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