While serving as a Private in Capt. Shaw's company of Ohio Militia during the War of 1812, Frederick Briney made out his will on 14 Jul 1813 at Camp Meigs which was located near Dayton on the west bank of the Mad River. Briney contracted a disease while in the service and would die 15 days later while on leave at Lebanon on 29 Jul 1813. His will was proven and filed in Warren County, Ohio on 17 Oct 1813.

In 1825, Mason Seward was appointed guardian of Mary Briney (age 16) and Daniel Briney (age 14), children of Frederick Briney, deceased.

Signed in the presence of
James Kennedy
Samuel Harris

Know all men by these presents, That we Mason Seward & Henry Houk of the county of Warren, and state of Ohio, are held and firmly bound to the State of Ohio in two hundred dollars, to be paid to the said Sate of Ohio, or his certain attorney - to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us jointly and severally, our, and each of our heris, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, at Lebanon, the 20th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.

The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Warren aforesaid, did, on the 19th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five appoint the said Mason Seward of the county of Warren aforesaid guardian for Mary Briney

aged sixteen years, of the said county of Warren, and child of Frederick Briney of Warren county, deceased, NOW, if the said Mason Seward shall well and truly execute and discharge with fidelity the duties enjoined on him as Guardian, render an accurate statement of his transactions, with a just account of the profits arising, and deliver up the same to the said court of Common Pleas, at such time as the court may require, agreeable to the true intent and meaning of the laws of the state of Ohio, in such case, made and provided, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed, sealed and delivered, in presence of
T. P. Lowe
Mason Seward {seal}
Henry Houk {seal}

Box 35 #1
War. Com. Pleas
Mason Seward
guardian of
Daniel Briney

Filed 19th Sept 1825
J. K. Wild Clk
R. C. P.

Know all men by these presents, That we Mason Seward & William Thurston of the county of Warren, and state of Ohio, are held and firmly bound to The State of Ohio in two hundred dollars twenty five dollars, to be paid to the said Sate of Ohio, or his certain attorney - to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us jointly and severally, our, and each of our heris, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, at Lebanon, the 19th day of Sept. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five.

The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Warren aforesaid, did, on the 19th day of Sept. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five appoint the said Mason Seward of the county of Warren aforesaid guardian for Daniel Briney

aged fourteen years, of the said county of Warren, and child of Frederick Briney of Warren county, deceased, NOW, if the said Mason Seward shall well and truly execute and discharge with fidelity the duties enjoined on him as Guardian, render an accurate statement of his transactions, with a just account of the profits arising, and deliver up the same to the said court of Common Pleas, at such time as the court may require, agreeable to the true intent and meaning of the laws of the state of Ohio, in such case, made and provided, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed, sealed and delivered, in presence of
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Mason Seward {seal} [name listed as Mason Leonard in the Docket of Estates Vol. 0 p. 285]
Wm. Thurston {seal}