MIAMI COUNTY OHIO - DEED: YATES (1823)
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                                            Copied from original documents
                                            in the Miami Co.,OH Courthouse
                                            at Troy, OH by Sandra Lake Lassen
                                            on 3 September 1991

ABSTRACT OF DOCUMENTS
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FROM THE ESTATE OF THOMAS YATES, DECEASED, 1823

[note: many of these documents are on small pieces of paper; all were
handwritten originals]

Accounting:

Appraisal of property of Thomas Yates "late of the township
of Lost Creek" (2 days service)                   $6.00

for reading, filing an Inventory and for final settlement       $2.45

for proving will                  50 cents to each witness

for publishing executor notice in the Piqua Gazette 4 times   $1.25

for making coffin                           $8.00

for making a copy of the last will & testmament     $4.06 1/4

TOTAL ESTATE WAS $1333.19 AFTER PAYMENT OF DEBTS

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in a document dated 16 Feb 1826, Phebe Yates, widow of Thomas Yates, signed
her name in a quavery hand testifying that she received of Nezer S.Yates,
one of the executors of her husband's estate the sum of $1333.14, "the
account of all the personal Estate....and it being in full of my portion
Willed"