OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 25 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 25 Today's Topics: #1 Fw: BLAIR, John et al to PERDEW, E ["Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0f4501bf633d$d5b30f60$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BLAIR, John et al to PERDEW, Elijah Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:09 AM Subject: New USGenWeb Archives
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General Co. Oh Deeds A new message, "BLAIR, John et al to PERDEW, Elijah," was posted by Margaret Gagliardi on Sun, 16 Jan 2000 Surname: BLAIR, PERDEW, WRIGHT, WIGFIELD, GROWDEN, DICKEN, RUBY, DENNY, DURANT, PETTIS, TINGLEY --- NAME: Margaret Gagliardi EMAIL: gagliardi_margaret@bah.com DATE: Jan 16 2000 QRYTEXT: BEDFORD COUNTY, PA Deed Book W, Page 200-201 Dated 5 Oct 1831, Recorded 24 Feb 1845 JOHN BLAIR et al to ELIJAH PERDEW This Indenture Made the fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one between JOHN BLAIR and MARY his wife, ARCHABALD BLAIR and SUSANNAH his wife, WILLIAM RIGHT and MARY his wife, BENJAMIN WIGFIELD and REBECCA his wife JOHN GROWDEN and SARAH his wife, EDMUND BLAIR and EASTER his wife and THOMAS GROWDEN and ELIZABETH his wife of the one part and ELIJAH PERDEW of Southampton Township Bedford County and State of Pennsylvania of the other part. Witnesseth that the said JOHN BLAIR and the others above named for and in consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars to them in hand paid by the said ELIJAH PERDEW at and before the ensealing and delivery hereof the recit whereof is hereby acknowledged and thereof acquit and forever discharge the said ELIJAH PERDEW his heirs Executors and administrators by these presents have granted bargained and sole unto the said ELIJAH PERDEW and to his heirs and assigns all that tract of Land formerly belo! nging to BRICE BLAIR and NANCY his wife dec'd containing two hundred and eight acres adjoining land of JONATHAN DICKEN on the South ELIJAH PERDEW on the East WILLIAM RUBY on the North also a part of a warrant surveyed in the name of JONATHAN DICKEN and conveyed by him to the heirs of BRICE BLAIR dec'd on the west of the above land containing sixty nine acres be the same more or less together with all the improvements rights and liberties thereunto belonging unto the said ELIJAH PERDEW his heirs and assigns from us our heirs or any other person claiming under us forever. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year within written. JOHN BLAIR, MARY (x) BLAIR, ARCHIBALD BLAIR, SUSANNA BLAIR, WILLIAM WRIGHT, MARY (x) WRIGHT, JOHN GROWDON, SARAH (x) GROWDEN, EDMUND BLAIR, ESTHER (x) BLAIR, THOMAS GROWDON, ELIZABETH GROWDON. Sealed and delivered in the presence of JAMES PERDEW, JAMES DENNY, WASHINGTON DURANT, ROBERT P! ETTIS, JOSEPH SCHUCKE, WILLIAM BLAIR Bedford County ss: Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid the above named JOHN BLAIR and MARY his wife, BENJAMIN WIGFIELD and REBECCA his wife, JOHN GOWDEN and SARAH his wife EDMUND BLAIR and EASTHER his wife THOMAS GROWDON and ELIZABETH his wife and acknowledged the above written Indenture to be their and each of their act and deed and desired the same as such might be recorded according to law she the said MARY, REBECCA, SARAH, EASTER and ELIZABETH being of lawful age separate and apart from their said husbands by examined and the full contents of this Indenture made known to them did declare it was their free will without compulsion. Oct 5th 1831. GEORGE McCOY State of Ohio, Harrison County ss: Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace of said County the within named ARCHIBALD BALIR and WILLIAM WRIGHT who acknowledged the signing sealing and delivering of the within deed to be their voluntary act and that they executed the same for the purpose therein expressed also personally appeared before me the within named SUSANNAH wife of the said ARCHIBALD BLAIR and MARY WRIGHT wife of the said WILLIAM WRIGHT who being separate and apart from their said Husbands acknowledged the within deed to be their voluntary act and deed and that they executed the same without the threat or persuasion of their said husbands and freely relinquish their right of dower to the premises within mentioned and desired that the same may be admitted to record. I certify the above named persons to be the same whom the represent themselves to be given under my hand and seal this 17th day of October 1831. ROBERT PITTIS, Justice of ! the Peace. Received of ELIJAH PERDEW my part of the within consideration in full by me this 6th day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. EDMUND BLAIR Received of ELIJAH PERDEW our part of the within consideration in full by us this 17th day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty one. ARCHIBALD BLAIR, WILLIAM WRIGHT The State of Ohio, Harrison County ss: I WILLIAM TINGLEY Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Harrison do certify that the within named ROBERT PITTIS Esquire before whom the foregoing deed of conveyance or instrument of writing was acknowledged and whose name to the foregoing certificate whereof is subscribed was at the time of taking said acknowledgment so certifying and subscribing the same and now is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the said County of Harrison duly elected commissioned and qualified and that to all whose official acts as such full faith & credit is due. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Cadiz this 22nd day of October A.D. 1831. WILLIAM TINGLEY Clerk. Recorded & Compared the 24th February A.D. 1845. JOS RUBBLE?, Recorder . This is an automatically-generated notice. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:00:17 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0f4b01bf633d$eaf14ae0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: BLAIR, Brice to PERDEW, Elijah Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 10:35 AM Subject: New USGenWeb Archives
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Oh Deeds A new message, "BLAIR, Brice to PERDEW, Elijah," was posted by Margaret Gagliardi on Sun, 16 Jan 2000 Surname: BLAIR, PERDEW, RUBY, DICKEN, ADAMS, STUART --- NAME: Margaret Gagliardi EMAIL: gagliardi_margaret@bah.com DATE: Jan 16 2000 QRYTEXT: Bedford County, PA Deed Book W, Page 201-202 Dated 13 Nov 1835, Recorded 24 Feb 1845 BRICE BLAIR (of OH) to ELIJAH PERDEW This Indenture made this 13th day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty five between BRICE BLAIR and REBECCA his wife of the State of Ohio of the one part and ELIJAH PERDEW of Bedford County and State of Pennsylvania of the other part witnesseth that BRICE BLAIR and REBECCA his wife for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and eighteen dollars to them in hand paid by the said ELIJAH PERDEW at and before the ensealing and delivery hereof the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained sold and confirm unto ELIJAH PERDEW all our right title interest or otherwise in two certain tracts of land situate in Southampton Township Bedford County and state aforesaid adjoining land of JONATHAN DICKEN on the South and WILLIAM RUBY on the North one tract containing two hundred and eight acres more or less the other containing sixty nine acres more or less it being the same tract of land formerly belonging to BRICE BLAIR dec'd to have and to hold all o! ur share of into or out of the tracts of land aforesaid with all the improvement thereunto belonging to the said ELIJAH PERDEW his heirs and assigns forever and we hereby agree to warrant and defend our share of the said tracts of land to the said ELIJAH PERDEW against us our heirs or any other person claiming under us or our heirs. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and date above written. BRICE BLAIR, REBECCA (x - her mark) BLAIR. Sealed & delivered in presence of JACOB ADAMS, JONATHAN STUART. Rec'd of ELIJAH PERDEW one hundred and eighteen dollars in full consideration in the above deed. BRICE BLAIR. Test JONATHAN STUART. Bedford County ss: Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County BRICE BLAIR and REBECCA his wife the grantors in the within Indenture the said BRICE being one of the son and legal representatives of BRICE BLAIR dec'd and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed the said REBECCA being of full age and by me examined separate and apart from her said husband and the contents of said Indenture by me fully made known to her did declare that she executed the same freely and voluntarily without any compulsion of her said husband. Witness my hand and seal Nov 13th 1835. JACOB ADAMS . This is an automatically-generated notice. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:17:41 -0500 From: "Maggie Stewart" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <0fae01bf6340$59866560$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Beattie Biographies from Ohio and related information Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Judith Weeks Ancell To: Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 2:22 PM Judith Weeks Ancell jancell@micron.net 1810 Edgecliff Terrace Boise, ID 83702-2911 Hello, I have transcribed the following information for the Beatty/Beattie Archives. I would also like to submit it to the US GenWeb Biographies as several states are mentioned. I am not researching this family, although my Beattie family is from Ashland/Richland Cos. Ohio. The two volumes of this book are not indexed - I cannot do look-ups. However, if it is all right with you I would be glad to submit transcriptions from time to time. Please let me know it this is all right. I ampasting below the recent transcriptions that I made. Feel free to break them apart as you wish. Judith I have a copy of: Henry Howe LLD, Howes Historical Collections of Ohio in Two Volumes, An Encyclopedia of the State, Volume I, (Published by the State of Ohio; The Laning Printing Co., Public Printers, Norwalk, OH (1896)). Chapter: Ohio In The Civil War by Gen. John Beatty. Page 150: "General John Beatty was born near, Sandusky, Ohio, December 16, 1828. his education was obtained at the district school of a pioneer settlement. His grandfather, John Beatty, was an anti-slavery man of the James G. Birney school; from him the present John imbibed in boyhood his first political tenets, and to these he has adhered somewhat obstinately ever since. In 1852 he supported John P. Hale for the presidency. In 1856 he cast his vote for John C. Fremont. In 1860 he was the Republican presidentail elector for the district which sent John Sherman to Congress. When the war broke out in 1861, he was the first to put his name to an enlistment roll in Morrow county. he was elected to the captaincy of his company, subsequently made lieutenant-colonel, then colonel of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in 1862 advanced to the position of brigadeir-general of volunteers. He was with McClellan and Rosecrans in West Virginia, summer and fall 1861; with General O. M. Mitchel in his dash through Southern Kentucky, Middle Tennessee and Northern Alabama in the spring of 1862. Returning with General Buell to the Ohio river, he joined in the pursuit of Bragg, and on October 8, 1862, fought at the head of his regiment in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. In the December following he was assigned to the command of a brigade of Rousseau's division, and led it through the our days' battle of Stone River, closing on the night of January 3, 1863, with an assult on the enemy's barricade, on the left of the Murfreesboro' turnpike, which he carried at the point of a bayonet. he was with rosecrans on the Tullahoma campaign, and after the enemy evacuated their stronghold, overtook thiem at Elk river, drove their rear guard from the heights beyond, and led the column which pursued them to the summit of the Cumberland. While the army rested at Winchester, Tennessee, he was president of a board to examine applicants for commissions in colored regiments, and continued in this service until the army crossed the Tennessee river and entered on the Chattanooga campaign. In this advance into Georgia his brigade had the honor of being the first of Thomas' corps to cross Lookout mountain. He was with Brannan and Negley in the affair at Rossville. At the re-organization of the Army of the Cumberland he was assigned to the command of the second brigade of Davis' division Thomas' corps, but was with Sherman at the battle of Mission Ridge; and when the rebel line broke he led the column in pursuit of the retreating enemy, overtook his rear guard near Graysvile, whee a short but sharp encounter occurred, in which Gen. George Many, commanding the opposing force, was wounded, and his troops compelled to retire in disorder. Subsequently he accompanied Sherman in the expidition to Knoxville for the relief of Burnside, and the close of his campaign ended his military service. Gen. Beatty was elected to the Fortieth Congress from the Eighth Ohio district, and re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty- second Congresses, serving first as a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions, then as Chairman of Committee on Public Printing. In 1884 he was one of the Republican electors-at-large, and in 1886-7 a member of the Baord of State Charities. He has since 1873 been engaged in the business of banking in Columbus, Ohio."..... Page 152: "Brigadier-Generals of Ohio Birth:.... John Beatty, Sandusky, December 16, 1828." Page 153: "Brigadier Generals Resident in Ohio, but born elsewhere Those having brevet rank of Major-General marked wit a cross (+)...... Samuel Beatty, Pennsylvania, September 16, 1820." (+)..." Roll Of Members Of The Ohio Commandery Military Order Of The Loyal Legion Of The United States..... Page 156: Members Of Ohio Commandery, June, 1889: ..... Beatty, John, Brig.-Gen. U. S. V., Columbus, O. Beatty, W. G., Maj. O. V. I., Cardington, O." Erie County OH [was formed in 1838 from Huron and Sandusky Counties] Page: 581 - 582: "The original owner of the land on which Milan stands was John Beatty, a native of the north of Ireland. he was the largest landowner in the Fire-Lands and the grandfather of General John Beatty, whos has favored us with this sketch of him, accompanied with some racy anecdotes: Among the more prominent of the ealy settlers of Erie county was John Beatty, formerly of New London, Connecticut. His first visit t o Ohio was made in 1810, at which time he bought some 40,000 acres within the present limits of Erie and Huron, of what were then known as the "Fireland-Lands." In 1815 he removed with his family to this wilderness and built his first residence five miles south of Sandusky, on what is still known to the older residents of that section as the "stone-house place." When the township of Perkins was organized Mr. Beatty was made its first clerk. Susbequently he was appointed postmaster, and for many years thereafter he served the pioneers as justice of the peace. About 1828 he removed to Sandusky, and in 1833 was elected mayor of that city. he died in 1845, and is still remembered as an upright, intelligent, warm-hearted, hospitable gentleman. The cuhrch edifice nowstanding on the public square of Sandusky, and occupied at this date by the Lutherans, was built at his cost and donated by him to the Weseyan Methodist. Society. John Beattie was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and from 1815 to 1819 on almost every Sabbath met the pioneers in their log school-houses or at their homes and addressed them very acceptably on religious subjects. he was, however, a hot-tempered, impulsive, generaous, obstinate Irishman, who never succeeded in reaching that degree of perfection which enable him to live his enemies and offer the left cheek to an adversary who had smitten him on the right. An Accommodating Postmaster -- In 1816, or thereabouts, a post-office was established and Beatty appointed postmaster. The ear of cheap transportation and of cheap postage had not arrived. The settlers were poor; few of them could raise the shilling with which to pay the postage of a letter, but it was hard to have it withheld simply because they were poor and had no money. The new postmaster proved equal to the occasion; he gave them their letters and never made returns to the department. When called upon to do so he replied that he had received no money from the office, and therefore had none to return, and instead of being indebted to the government, the latter was in fact indebted to him. This sort of logic, however satisfactory to the settlers, was by no means pleasing to the Post-Office Department, and so the government in 1819 discontinued the office, and thus afforded Mr. Beatty greater liesure to look after th spiritual welfare of his neighbors. He was the original propietor of theland on which the town of Milan now stands; the site on the banks of the Huron river was naturally a very pretty one. Frederick Deucke, a Moravian missionary, had, in 1804, establlished a mission there and called the Place Petquoting -- a very handsome name by the way and one which the people should never have abbandoned. In 1814 Mr. Ebenezer merry, having bought the place, laid out a villiage, and in honor of the first owner called it Beatty. An Audacious Seizure -- Among the first vessel built in what is now Erie county, was one built by Abijah Jewitt, Eleazer Bell and a man named Montgomery on the bay shore a few miles southeast of Sandusky. In one of its first voyages it brought to Sandusky a cargo comprising a stock of general merchandise for Mr. Beatty, and among other things a cask of brandy which had not been entered at the custom house. The vessel was consequently seized and subsequently confiscated. Mr. Beatty's merchandise was put under lock and guard and the case reported to the department. The mails moved slowly in those days; time passed, and conscious of no fault on his part respecting the matter, Beatty grew impatient, and finally called his friends about him, drove his tems onto the wharf, put revenue officers and their employ'es aside, broke open the doors of the warehouse, and carried off his merchandise. All this was not difficult to do; the troublesome part of this affair came afterward, and resulted not from the cask of smuggled brandy, but from the violent and unwarrantable manner in which he had regained possession of his goods. The United States government was a big thing, even then, and no single citizen could afford to defy it, as Mr. Beatty discovered some years afterward, when compelled to pay the costs and penalties growing out of this unfortunate transaction. The Candle Story -- While a resident of New London, Connecticut, a boy stole from Mr. Beatty a box of candles; the thief was promptly arresed and arraigned before a magistrate; a witness appeared who testified that the boy was guilty as charged, and Beatty being called to prove the value of the property, swore that "the candles were worth, four dollars, every penny of it." Under the law respecting petty offence at that time in force in Connecticut, when the property stolen was worth from four dollars, and upward, the penalty was whipping at the post! The magistrate was about to pass sentence, when Beatty realized for the first time the terrible nature of the punishment; his anger had by this time cooled, and a feeling of pity for the boy supplanting every other emotion, he took the wittness stand again and said: "if it please your honor I desire to correct my testimony. I swore that the candles were worth four dollars, but I ommited to add that thatwas the retail price; as the boy took a whole box I'll put them to him at three dollars and thrity-three cents." The boy was not whipped. Jay Cooke's Start __ Mr. Pitt Cooke once told me how his brother Jay happened to get into the banking business, and as nearly as I can recollect it was as follows: The Cookes were living in a house on Columbus avenue (Sandusky) near the present site of the Second National Bank. One day, when the family were seated at the dinner table, Eleutheros Cooke, the father, said in a spirit of pleasantry: "Well boys, you must look out for yourselves. I have sold this house to "Squire Beatty, and we have no home now." Jay was the only one who took the matter seriously. he obtained a situation in a store tht afternoon, subsequently accompanied his employer to Philadelphia, and this opened the way for him to the position of clerk in a banking house, and from this humble start in life he became the financial agent of the United States." -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #25 ******************************************