Warren County Property Records

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This Indenture made and enacted this thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen by and between John Sellers administrator of all and singular the goods and Chattels Rights and Credits & which were of Leonard Kratch late of Warren County in the State of Ohio deceased of the first part and Thomas Evans now of the same place of the second part. Witnesseth that whereas heretofore, to with, on the thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen the said John Sellers administrator as aforesaid by Thomas R. Ross his attorney filed in the Court of Common Please for the County of Warren his petition in the words and of the ten (?) or following to wit, To the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren County in the State of Ohio – now holding a Court of Common Pleas within and for said County at March term Eighteen hundred and eighteen. The petition of John Sellers administrator & of the estate of Leonard Kratch late of said County deceased, Represents to the Court that the personal estate of the said deceased amounted to two hundred and twenty nine dollars upon sale made at public venue, etc. that there were no other debts owing to the estate, and that the debts owing by the estate amount to about five hundred and forty six dollars and that after deducting the widows wearing apparel, one bed and bedding, the said deceased having died in the wilderness from causes unknown, and the costs of Administration, there is not personal property sufficient to pay all demands against said Estate, your petitioner therefore prays your honors for and order of Court to direct him to sell the following Real estate of the said deceased to discharge the debts due from said estate, to wit. All that tract or parcel of land lying and being in the County of Warren and State of Ohio bounded and described as follows, to wit. Beginning at the southwest corner two sugars and a white oak tree, thence East one hundred and fifty eight poles to a stake near Two white ashes and dogwood trees thence North with the section lines fifty poles ten feet six inches to a stake, thence West one hundred and fifty eight poles to a stake, thence south fifty poles ten feet sex inches to the beginning containing fifty acres be the same more or less. Said tract or parcel of land being part of the East half of Section number Eighteen in the Military Range and in the fifth township and third entire Range of townships between the Miami Rivers, and that your honors would authorize him to sell the same for the purposes aforesaid agreeably to law etc. Whereupon on the Reading of the said petition the Court Granted the same and appointed Francis Dill, John Steddom, Francis Jeffery three disinterested men of the County of Warren aforesaid to view and appraise the said premises and make return of the same under oath forthwith, which order and found accordingly under the seal of said Court, and afterwards to wit on the seventh day of April 1818. the said appraisers returned to said Court, the following appraisement, with a plat thereunto (announced?), to wit. We the undersigned appraisers in the within order mentioned, so hereby certify under oath that we have viewed the premises therein mentioned, and find that we cannot divide & lay off the widows dower without materially injuring the whole, a representation of

the said tract of land with the division may be seen by a Reference to the (annaserd?) plat and we appraise the whole at twenty dollars per acre, which said Return was given by the aforesaid appraisers under oath and under their hands and seals etc. Whereupon it then appearing to the said Court that the appraisers aforesaid could not divide and lay off the widows dower without material injury the whole tract, and the court being given to understand and being made known of the widow’s willingness to release her dower in the premises etc. did order the administrator aforesaid to sell the whole of said tract of land etc above described etc. after giving notice of the time and place of sale by advertising the same in at least at five public places in the County, and in the Western Star a newspaper of the most general circulation within County, at least six weeks successively and previous to the sale, the same land to be sold for one third cash in hand; one third in one years, and the remaining third in two years, and that the administrator make to the purchaser a deed according to law for the same, and take notes of hand for the second and third installments, the payment of which to be secured by a Mortgage given by the purchaser on the premises, and the Court order and direct that the said administrator give his own bond with two good successors to wit, Enos Williams and William Ferguson in the sum of two thousand dollars to secure to the creditors and heirs the monies arising from said sale etc. and which said order did further command and require the said administrator to sell the premises aforesaid according to the order of the Court aforesaid and of his providing to make Return to the next Court etc. Now therefore this Indenture Witnesseth that the said John Sellers administrator as aforesaid and in consideration of the premises aforesaid and of the laws of the State of Ohio in such case made and provided an in obedience to the aforesaid order of said Court do hereby bargain and sell alien (enfeaff?) convey and confirm unto the aforesaid Thomas Evans all the estate Right title interest property claim and demand whatsoever whether in law or equity which the aforesaid Leonard Kratch had of in and to the aforesaid described tract of land before his death, and also all the estate Right title interest property claim and demand whatsoever whether in law or equity which his heirs or any of them have or might have either in possession remainder or reversion of in and to the same described tract of land. To have and to hold the same to him the said Thomas Evans and to his heirs and assigns forever, as Witness my hand and seal this aforesaid day and year first above written –

Signed sealed & delivered In the presence of us the Undersigned witnesses Thomas R. Ross Benjamin Layre

[following written at right angle to text] #3202 Recevied the 30 May 1818 Recorded the 2d of June 1818 E. Williams R. W. C.

John Sellers {seal} administrator

State of Ohio Warren County, Be it remembered that on this 30th day of May Eighteen hundred and Eighteen personally came John Sellers the Grantor to the foregoing deed of conveyance, before me the subscriber as Justice of the Peace within and for Warren County Ohio at my office in said County, when and where the said John Sellers did acknowledge before me that the aforesaid deed of Conveyance was his free and Voluntary act and deed by him signed sealed and delivered for the uses and purposes therein contained and set fourth. As Witness my hand and seal the day and year first above written. Benjamin Layre J. P. {seal}

This Indenture made and enacted this thirtieth day of May Eighteen hundred and eighteen by and between Margaret Kratch widow and Relict of Leonard Kratch late of Warren County Ohio, and Thomas Evans now of the same place, Witnesseth that whereas John Sellers of the same county as administrator upon the estate of the said Leonard Kratch deceased by virtue of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren County Ohio bearing date on or about the seventeenth day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen did sell unto the said Thomas Evans the following described tract of land lying and beig in the County of Warren and state of Ohio bounded and described as follows, to wit, Beginning at the southwest corner two sugars and a white oak tree thence East one hundred and fifty eight poles to a stake near two white ashes and dogwood trees, thence North with the Section line fifty poles ten feet six inches to a stake, thence West one hundred and fifty eight poles to a stake, thence South fifty poles ten feet six inches to the beginning containing fifty acres be the same more or less said tract or parcel of land being part of the east half of Section number Eighteen in the military Range and in the fifth township and third entire Range of townships between the Miami Rivers. And the said Margaret Kratch the widow and Relict of the said Leonard Kratch deceased for the purpose of further perfecting the title of the said Thomas Evans of in and to the above described tract of land as well for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to me in hand paid by the said Thomas Evans which I do hereby acknowledge to have received do hereby release and relinquish and forever quit claims to all the interest and estate which I now have or at any time hereafter may or can have of in and to said premises either as dower or otherwise To have and to hold the same unto him the said Thomas Evans his heirs and assigns forever to his and their only proper benefit interest and use. In Testimony whereof I do herein to set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.

Signed sealed & delivered In the presence of us Thomas R. Ross Benjamin Layre

[following written at right angle to text] #3203 Recevied the 30 May 1818 Recorded the 2 June 1818 E. Williams R. W. C.

Margaret Kratch (Seal)