> An interesting comment about early settlers in Ohio. It seems that those > from Connecticut built a nice house. Those from Pennsylvania built a nice > barn first. > > That part of Ohio was of course called New Connecticut and later became the > Western Reserve. Land was controlled by the state Treasurer of Connecticut, > who didn't have a clear idea of the difference between personal and state > property (from what I have read.) > > According to one grandson of William Augustus Strong, when his wife had got > fed up with the frontier, he gave her a horse and some money and she went > back to Connecticut. He visited her once to persuade her to return. When > she didn't, he remarried, so he was technically a bigamist. > > His son, Alonzo returned East (I presume CT) for some school and was then > bound out to one Joseph Hartzel on the farm that I was raised on. Alonzo, > my G Grandfather, later became a successful farmer in Mahoning County. > > Ralph Strong > Glen Burnie