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Title: A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Avery, Elroy McKendree, 1844-1935 Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Ohio
Publisher: Chicago, New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he old Portage path. A less frequented trail existed from the Indianvillages of Tawas or Ottawas and Wingoes, at Tinkers Creek, by ashorter route, direct to the crossing of the Cuyahoga at the StandingStone, near Kent. The paekhorsemen, who transported goods andflour to the northwest from 1786 to 1795, followed this trail, crossingthe Cuyahoga at Tinkers Creek. Soon after the survey of the westside lands, the irrepressible Ma.jor Lorenzo Carter, who now was wellto do, and his son, Alonzo, bought land over there near the mouth ofthe river; the son occupied the land and there kept the Red Housetavern opposite Superior Lane. Most of the settlers on the west sidelived near the lake in the vicinity of Main and Detroit avenues, but asquatter from Canada by the name of Granger had, prior to 1812,found a gras.sy slope running up from the river near the presentRiverside Cemetery. This slope was long known as Grangers Hill;when the squatter came I can not tell because I do not know, but, in 171
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1812-18) EARLY WEST SIDERS 173 1815, ho moved on to the Maumee country. In May, 1812, JamesFish came from Groton, just across the Thames River from NewLondon, Connecticut, the first pennanent settler of Brooklyn town-ship. According to the record made by Mr. Kennedy, he had purchasedland from Mr. Lord and his partners, the owners of the township, and,in the summer of 1811, left the old Nutmeg State with his familystored away in a wagon drawn by oxen. He was accompanied byquite a company of pioneers, and spent forty-seven days upon Ihe road.He passed the winter in Newburg; early in the spring of 1812, hecrossed over to Brooklyn, erected a log-house at a cost of eighteen dol-lars, and in May took his family over and commenced house-keeping.In the same year came Moses and Ebenezcr Fish, the last named serv-ing as one of the militiamen guarding the Indian murderer, whoseexecution in 1812 has been elsewhere recorded. In 1813, came OziasBrainard, of Connecticut, with his family; while in 18

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