This is a publishing company in Columbus, Ohio that have some great maps you can buy. Check it out you might find something there that will help. http://www.woolkochpublishing.com/entrymenbks.html I have bought from them and have been very satisfied. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annette Stewart" <stewart@wesnet.com> To: <ohfairfi@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [OHFAIRFI] Lewis & Daniel Seitz land location > Thanks for all the good info. Is there a web site to download the maps > for > these range/twp's? (Old and current maps) > > Thanks, > Annette > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karl or Pat Seitz" <kseitz@earthlink.net> > To: <ohfairfi@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:12 PM > Subject: Re: [OHFAIRFI] Lewis & Daniel Seitz land location > > >> >> Annette: >> >> I don't have the deeds, but I do have some index pages from which >> I have extracted and deduced the following: >> >> Lewis Sites/Seitz probably bought his first property in Fairfield >> County in Range 18 Township 14 Section 2. The purchase was from the >> United States. The deed was not actually recorded until 1836 in Deed >> Book 1 Page 391. This was 13 years after Lewis died and five years >> after his widow, Anna Beery, died. >> >> From 1806 until 1821, Lewis and Anna are recorded as selling >> property in the following locations: >> Range 18 Township 14 Sections 2 and 11, which is Berne Township; >> Range 18 Township 15, Section 35 which is Pleasant Township; and >> Range 19 Township 16 Section 12, which is Liberty Township. Some of >> the purchasers are relatives by blood or marriage. >> >> The most significant of these may be the 1816 sale to their son >> John Seitz. The property is in Range 18 Township 14 Secton 2 and >> Range 18 Township 15 Section 35. This would be on the border between >> Berne Township and Pleasant Township. Depending on where this >> location is east and west, it could be as close as three miles from >> the Pleasant Run Primitive Baptist Church, which is in Pleasant >> Township. John and Lewis are listed next to each other in the 1820 >> census for Berne Township. >> >> As for Daniel Seitz, I do not have any information on when he >> bought property. What I do have is a series of transactions in 1864 >> and 1865 by his heirs, who apparently sold their shares of his >> property to his son-in-law, John Shumaker. The property is in Range >> 17, Township 16 Section 30, which is Rush Creek Township. Daniel and >> his brother, Jacob, are listed next to each other in the 1820 census >> for Rush Creek Township. At its closest point, Rush Creek Township >> is about three miles from the Pleasant Run Primitive Baptist Church. >> The actual distance Daniel lived from the church was probably greater >> than that. Five or ten miles on horseback or by buggy would be a >> reasonable distance to travel in those days for what was probably a >> much longer affair than current Sunday worship services. >> >> Just to avoid further questions: >> The named townships (Berne, Liberty, Pleasant and Rush Creek) >> are political subdivisions of Fairfield County. >> The Range, Township, Section numbers are legal descriptions >> based on federal land surveys. The actual deeds probably include >> specific information about the part of the section (i.e. northwest >> quarter of the southeast quarter) in which the land is located. >> -- >> Karl Seitz >> >> >>>Can someone please look up the deeds for Lewis (married to Anna Beery) >>>and >>>son Daniel Seitz (married to Catharine Beery, 2nd wife) land property in >>>Fairfield, OH? Early 1800's. Did they live near the Pleasant Run >>>Primitive >>>Baptist Corners Church? >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Annette >>> >>> >>>------------------------------- >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>OHFAIRFI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> OHFAIRFI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHFAIRFI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >