In a message dated 6/16/99 11:58:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << most of them from Massachusetts and Connecticut arrived in that same area followed by Essex County, New Jersey, people, who settled in Cincinnati in an area called the Symmes Purchase. French immigrants settled in Gallipolis, Gallia County from 1790 though 1791. Additional Connecticut migrations occurred in 1796-97, settling in the Connecticut Western Reserve. Others from Connecticut and >> What part of Ohio is referred to as the Connecticut Western Reserve? Pat in Fla