Editing Perrysburg, Ohio (section)

===Early history===
Perrysburg lies near the center of the [[Twelve Mile Square Reservation]], a tract of land ceded in 1795 to the United States by the [[Odawa people]] following their defeat in the [[Northwest Indian Wars]]. They had occupied this territory since the turn of the 18th century, after having settled in the region of the French trading post at [[Fort Detroit]]. Also known as the Ottawa, they had controlled much of the territory along the Maumee River in present-day northwestern Ohio.<ref>''Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History,'' (University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, 1986) pp. 3, 58–59; and R. Douglas Hurt, ''The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830'' (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1998), pp. 8–12</ref>

In 1810, early European-American settlers here were Major Amos Spafford (1753–1818), his wife Olive (1756–1823), and their four children. In 1796, Spafford, a native of [[Connecticut]], was a surveyor for the [[Connecticut Land Company]]. He drew the first map laying out [[Cleveland]] and named the city. He left there in 1810 following appointment as US Customs Collector and [[postmaster]] for the new port at the Foot of the Rapids of the Miami of the Lake [[Maumee River]].  Two years later, 67 families lived in the area, but most fled at the outbreak of the War of 1812.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.remarkableohio.org/HistoricalMarker.aspx?historicalMarkerId=679 |title=Remarkable Ohio |access-date=2014-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206103920/http://www.remarkableohio.org/HistoricalMarker.aspx?historicalMarkerId=679 |archive-date=2014-12-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

After the war and the 1817 [[Treaty of Fort Meigs]], which extinguished the Ottawa claim to this area, Spafford returned to the area. He settled on a 160-acre land grant, signed by President [[James Monroe]], on River Tract #64 in Waynesfield Township. Other veterans who received land grants for their service during that war also settled in this area.