Prices of Land, Wayne Twp from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio

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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 20 February 2005

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The History of Warren County Ohio
Part IV Township Histories
Wayne Township by Judge John W. Keys
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

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I deem it not improper here to give some of the early prices of lots and land. I find that after Faulkner got a patent for 208 acres (Waynesville), deeds were given, and the considerations therein mentioned, by David Faulkner, in 1807, as follows: Lots 8 in Miami square, 5 and 7 in Washington square, to Jonathan Newman for $32; Outlot No. 14, to Joel Wright for $8.16; Lots No. 5, 6 and 7, Miami square, to Samuel Test, $87; Lots No. 6 and 8, Washington square, and 3, 4, 7. 8, Adams square, Outlot 7 and part of 8, to Seth Silver, for $122.04; to Zadock Street, Lots No. 1 and 3, in Washington square, $2.04; to Merrick Starr, Lots No. 2, 3, 4 and 6, President square, $2; to Rowland Richards, Outlot No. 13, $8; to David Linton, Outlets No. 5 and 6, $10; to David Holloway, Lot 5, Wabash square. Lot 1. Jefferson square, Outlots 12 and 17, $400.

The first title obtained by Highway, and, I believe, the only one in fee simple was that year from Falkner, when there was deeded to him Scioto and English squares and four and one-half acres on the southwest of town, for $368.

The prices given could not have been the value of the property sold, and I can only account for it from the fact that sales had been made by Highway and partners, and that the purchasers had paid part, and that the above prices were balances or considerations to quiet title.

I will now give considerations of later dates that I think better represent values, viz., Hammett to Satterthwaite, Lot No. 1, Wabash square, 1811, $80; David Pugh to David Brown, 1808, Lots No. 3, 4, 7, 8, Ohio square, $50; David Holloway to Thomas Swift, 1814. Lots 5, 7, Washington square, $150; Joel Wright to David Morgan, in 1820. four and one-half acres, southwest of the schoolhouse. $50; John Haines to David Brown, Outlot 4, $200; in 1807, Clevenger to Seaman, Lot 4, Miami square, $34; James Jennings to John Conner, in 1816. Lots 7, 8, Ohio square, $71.50; in 1811, Sarah Buckels to Noah Haines, Outlots 10, 11, 18, 19, $450; Thomas Swift, in 1816, Lot 4, Ohio square, $190; in 1819, Thomas Wilson to Samuel Rogers, Lot 5, Wabash square, $200; in 1811, David Linton to Noah Haines, Lots 3, 4, 7, 8. Adams square, $500.

The farm immediately above Waynesville was a part of the land originally patented to Henry Seeman. Satterthwaite bought, in 1815, of Seeman, forty-nine acres for $600; of Joseph Chenoweth, eight acres for $93.75; of Mr. Biggs, fifty acres for $270; of John Croft, nineteen acres, price not given. making the farm 126 acres.

The farm owned by the Benjamin Brown heirs, at the crossing of the Franklin and Dayton roads, was patented to John Craft in 1810. Among the early owners and occupants on the east side of the Little Miami, I will name a few : Military survey, No. 528, embracing a tract of near 1,700 acres, was purchased by the Rev. James Smith, of Maj. Harris, in Virginia. I am not advised at what price per acre. Smith liberated his slaves, valued, I am informed, at near $40,000, and removed with his family to the Northwest Territory. In 1798, they went to reside at a small station near the Little Miami, called Middletown, between Columbia and Newtown, where Mr. Smith died in 1800, and, in the winter of the same year the family (after having some primitive improvements made) removed to the land above mentioned. This tract was the first one divided by a decree of the Warren Court of Common Pleas on

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petition for partition in the county. At the time of the settlement there by the Smiths, Martin Heston lived on Section 10 and Obediah Walker on Section 9 across the river, and Studybaker and Miller on Survey 2,464; these, I believe, were the nearest settlements.

Abijah O'Neall and Samuel Kelly bought, of John Brown, of South Carolina, his military claim of 1,500 acres for $2,100 in silver, and got for a part of it Brown's survey of 600 acres, and, for the balance of it they took two surveys in Greene and one in Fayette Counties. O'Neall got two-thirds and Kelly one-third, and they divided their land here by deeds in 1809.

Survey No. 399 was bought by Gaines and Philip Goode for 9 shillings per acre and settled by them about 1805.

The upper part of the survey above Holeman's Survey of 1,333 acres, was settled by Robert Furnas and others, and the lower part by Clark, of South Carolina, in 1806. I have been informed that Clark paid about $4.50 per acre for his part.

To show the prices otherwise paid for lands on that side of the river, I will give a few of the transfers: In 1803, Nathaniel Massie to Ezekiel Cleaver, 135 acres for $405.75; John Overton to Abijah O'Neall, 621 acres of Griffin's Survey, for $1,255; James Murry to Israel Wright, 572 1/2 acres of Survey 1,554, for $1,000; Thomas Posey to Jonathan Wright, in 1807, 298 1/2 acres of Survey 1,056, for $297; J. Macher to Abijah O'Neall and Joel Wright, in 1807, 1,040 acres of Survey 614, for $1,500; in 1803, Nathaniel Massie to David Faulkner, 165 acres, for $95.75; in 1805, Benjamin Anderson to Abijah O'Neall, 1,000 acres on the lower side of Caesar's Creek, for $2,000; in 1807, Abijah O'Neall to Robert Millhouse, 210 acres on Caesar's Creek, for $72.10; Abijah O'Neall to David Whitsen, 112 acres, on the southeast side of Caesar's Creek, for $252; same to Mordecai Spray, 98 acres, for $221; in 1808, same to Joel Wright, 285 acres of Survey 774, for $410; Philip Goode to Gabriel Crane, in 1809,131 acres, for $351.


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